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Brooklyn
Beckham has taken his first steps in following
father David onto the football field. Mother
Victoria Beckham took Brooklyn to the
session in Knutsford, Cheshire, and Brooklyn was
given the chance to improve his skills. He
was dressed in an England kit and wore the number
seven - the same number his father wears for
Manchester
United
and England. England captain David Beckham is to make
a televised appeal warning the team could be thrown
out of Euro 2004 if supporters continue to
misbehave. Beckham will appear on BBC1, ITV and Sky before
Tuesday's friendly against Serbia and Montenegro to
ask England supporters to avoid a repeat of the
ugly scenes at the last international on home
soil. In April, the Euro 2004 qualifier against Turkey
was marred by pitch invasions and disturbances
outside the Stadium of Light in Sunderland. After next week's match, England will host
Slovakia at Middlesbrough's Riverside ground in
another European Championships qualifier. Beckham is concerned about the
consequences should there be more trouble. He said: "It shouldn't happen. If it does again
we will be thrown out of Euro 2004. "We have to be careful about our
celebrations. "I don't believe the players were responsible
but we have to cut it down. "We have to celebrate in the middle of the pitch
instead of by the corner flag. We want to stay in
the competition." FA spokesman Adrian Bevington said: "David
regards this as hugely important and his message is
directed at England fans everywhere. "He knows the gravity of this situation. "We, as a country, have had a very serious
warning about our future conduct and no
self-respecting fan wants the team playing behind
closed doors or even being thrown out of a
tournament." Uefa confirmed on Wednesday, it would not
hesitate to throw England out of the European
Championships if supporters caused trouble. ========================= David Beckham may consider the sacrifices of a
move to Madrid are not worthwhile. Wanting to play
for Real Madrid is one thing, but living in Spain
is something quite different and that is one of the
obstacles that must be overcome if David Beckham is
to move to the Bernabéu this summer as the
most expensive English footballer in history. Nothing that happened at Old Trafford on
Wednesday night went against the tide of
speculation suggesting that Beckham will move for
more than £30 million, but there are
complications that tend to be skipped over.
Personal issues, for instance, which are more
important to the England captain than the
professional kudos of joining a club that will
surely win the European Cup for the third time in
four seasons. They raise the remarkable prospect
that, if he is sold, it could be against his
will. It has become all too easy to assume that
Beckham longs to play alongside Zinedine Zidane,
Raúl and Ronaldo, but let us consider for a
moment the reasons why he might want to stay among
old friends and turn his back on the chance of
becoming the latest galactico. While the player can envisage knocking passes
around with the world's greatest stars, the husband
and father in him has other considerations. His
wife, Victoria, has only just agreed a new record
deal and has a career to pursue in London. He has
two young children and also a wider family who
could not just pack their bags and move to
Madrid. He must also have weighed up by now what he
might be sacrificing if he was to move to Real. He
would almost certainly never be taken back by
Manchester United, not if Sir Alex Ferguson was
there, so he would have to be prepared to pull on
the shirt of another English side when he returned,
as he surely would. Would it be worth sacrificing
five years of chasing glory with United for one or
two seasons, which is all he would probably want,
at Real? He would back himself to find a place in the
Real side, however many superstars were available
to Vicente Del Bosque, the coach, but, from the
experiences of other English players who have gone
abroad, he will know that it can be a tough
existence and not just because of the language. All
are reasons why Beckham is not as firmly committed
to a move abroad as is widely believed, although
that does not mean that the transfer might not
happen provided that Real confirm their interest
with a bid of at least £30 million. A deal can happen whether the player wants it to
or not, as Jaap Stam discovered when he fitted a
new kitchen to his house in Cheshire only to be
told by Ferguson within a couple of days that he
should pack his bags for Rome. With Ronaldinho in
United's sights and a new goalkeeper to be bought
among other improvements, money is needed to
finance the renovation of Ferguson's squad, so a
big offer would be almost impossible for United to
resist. It remains to be seen whether Real, as Ferguson
has claimed, simply flirted with Beckham to
unsettle the player ahead of the European Cup
quarter-final, which ended with a 6-5 aggregate
victory for the Spanish club, or whether they are
ready to confirm their interest by putting money on
the table. But the increased tension in the
player's relationship with his manager is doing
little to convince him that he should stay at the
club that he has supported since childhood. Two stubborn men, Beckham and Ferguson, appear
to have forgotten how good they can be for each
other. It is doubtful whether any XI he selected
could have overcome Real over two legs, but the
Scotsman clearly erred in leaving Beckham out of
his starting XI on Wednesday. He justified the
choice by claiming that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's form
had made the Norwegian undroppable, but he could
easily have found space for Beckham ahead of a
half-fit Juan Sebastián Verón. Giant
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