Joe

I still feel like I could play.

I miss training.

I miss playing.

I'll never not miss it.

Because he was so football obsessed, for sure.

And like, there's a steeliness and a kind of, there's something to admire about him when he went to Madrid and Capello said, like, I'm done with you, you're out of the team.

Like in 07 and he knows he's going to the MLS, he can absolutely say, well, fine, I'll bin off these three, four months.

But he's still like, my dad said to me, David, you know what, we work hard, that's us.

And just day after day in a training, Capello's like, he's still not sulking?

And he comes back in the team.

And then there is still the, like, Tom Cruise is at the game when they win La Liga that day.

But Beckham has forced his way into a team that Capello said he would never play for again.

And it's a crowning moment.

And that's why I just always still... The Qatar thing's very bad.

But there's still a residual...

Something in me.

And maybe it's just, you know, show me the boy at seven and I'll show you the man.

I just can't fully shake David Beckham because I like them so much.

There is a residual, like there's a strength of character there.

There's a certain honesty of effort there beneath all the bullshit that would occasionally still shine through no matter what.