When David Beckham signed for Real Madrid in 2003, his arrival in the Spanish capital was given a cavalcade fit for a visiting US president. But despite the glitz and glamour that surrounded the new Galactico, life on the inside was not so rosy. “It’s really entertaining when the circus comes to town,” his wife Victoria reminisces in a new Netflix documentary, “Unless you’re in it.”
This four-part documentary delves into the story of how a shy lad from Leytonstone, who spent hours doing keepie-uppies in the garden, became a global icon – a memorable splash from The Sun boasted of finding the one person in the world who had never heard of Beckham: a shepherd in Chad – and the circus that came with it.
