David Beckham confronts an angry LA Galaxy fan during AC Milan friendly
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It was all smiles and happiness frowns and dissatisfactory glances at the Home Depot Center Arena Stadium Complex yesterday, as David Beckham played his first LA Galaxy home game since escaping to Italy six months ago.
Playing against a rather familiar AC Milan team, the England star received some rough treatment from the 27,000 sellout crowd, many of whom had prepared harshly-worded banners.
After reading vitriolic messages such as “Go home fraud”, “Previous instances in which we professed to like you were fraudulent” and “How dare you bring international reverence and substantial revenues to a league that absolutely no one cared about”, Beckham tried to make amends with a particularly hostile Galaxy fan:
At halftime, Beckham walked toward the L.A. Riot Squad section and motioned to a fan to come closer. A man jumped down from the seats and was subdued by security before being taken away.
“One of the guys was saying things that wasn’t very nice. It was stepping over the line,” Beckham said. “I said, `You need to calm down and come shake my hand,’ and he jumped over.”
As you can see from these highlights that look like they were shot on a Nokia phone from 2003, the game finished 2-2 and Beckham was instrumental in setting up both the MLS side’s goals…
Spoiler bonus: Manchester Utd played a Malaysia XI on Saturday, in which Fit and Healthy Charismatic striker Michael Owen equalled ten per cent of his goalscoring output of last season. Check out highlights after the jump…
[Video: 101GG; Beckham quote: Sports Illustrated]
1 response so far
glen // July 21, 2009 at 12:54 am
Im sorry but I dont buy that spin his handlers got him to say.
The video was clear, he wasnt inviting the guy down for tea, it was a “come down here and say that to my face if you are a man” hand signals.
Look at his body language..
ANYONE knows that as soon as a fan steps down on the field, hell get pounded on by security and Becky didnt think the fan would come down, that simple.
>I said, `You need to calm down and come shake >my hand,’ and he jumped over.”
Really? Then why didnt you tell the security to let him meet you? Or invite the guy after the game to meet him?
Utter and total BS, like everything that comes out of this mans mouth.
Watch the video and tell me if he was inviting him for a chat or to ‘come down here if youre a man’ knowing fully that there were dozens of security who were going to make sure the guy doesnt come close. The world is full of these “hold me back guys or Im going to something” frauds like his “Im gonna jump over this railing and get you” half hearted attempt to jump over it..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-c720nNtgI
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