MORE FAIRYTALES

Last updated : 01 September 2003 By Editor
You’d have to be living in a cave to not know that ‘Becks’
has an autobiography coming out soon, and that the Sun are
currently serialising it. Here is the only extract we’re
going to publish today. It concerns Beckham’s last match
against Charlton:

“Rattling around my head had been the question: was this my
last game at Old Trafford for United? As I wheeled away, the
instinctive joy that comes with a goal collided with the
thought I might never do this again. The celebration
juddered. I was happy to score but choking back tears at the
same time.

“After the match I found myself standing next to Gary and
feeling very sad as I looked around the place I’d got used
to calling home. He asked me what was wrong. I told him.
‘They’ve been having talks with other clubs. If you’d asked
me that afternoon if I was leaving, I’d have told you ‘not
in a million years’.

“I won’t ever forget the feeling, winning in a United shirt.
The million years though? I was gone in less than five
weeks.”

The book can be found in all good bookshops, presumably in
the fiction department.