Dave Hanratty

Yeah.

showing how long he kept his powder dry on that one.

It's not great though.

And it does feel a bit beneath him, but definitely a drive by.

And the timing of it obviously is very, very suspect.

And yeah, it's, you could argue that, listen, leave family members out of it, which is kind of ironic given everything we're going to talk about today.

Yeah, it's weird because, I mean, you're thinking about a lot of people, myself included, are aging themselves this week by saying, I remember when he was born.

I remember when that was a talking point.

And it was.

It's wild because for anyone who didn't grow up in the time of Beckham, he did all this pre-social media.

He did all this pre... Obviously, look, PR has always existed, but it's changed dramatically in all the years that have been done since.

He was ahead of the curve, or at least his PR team were.

And for whatever reason, whatever decision was clearly made somewhere that...

Brand Beckham was the family, the extension of the family.

And Brooklyn's very excoriating statement that he came out with on Monday evening, which is incredibly lengthy, by the way, for anyone who hasn't seen it yet.

He's referring to his parents controlling his life, controlling the narrative in the press around his life, forcing him into...

deals and wanting to like essentially trademark his name all this kind of stuff so i would agree absolutely like listen we're not sitting here being like woe is brooklyn beckham the man has more money and freedom in life than anyone sitting at this table will ever have and probably everybody listening will ever have at the same time he didn't ask to be put into that life and if he's looking to emancipate himself right now from it that's his decision he's a grown man

Yeah.

I always remember the free kick against Barcelona in the 3-0, which was just like a textbook, you know, in a video game, it would be a cheat code.

Do you remember as well, like the tabloid, one of the front pages when the sending off happened and it was like 10 brave lines, one stupid boy.