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Beckham New Documentary

Beckham New Documentary

Not watched it yet but I will be doing. Beckham has never shy'd away from talking about his time at North End so I'm sure he's never considered the club "not trendy enough." If anything dropping down the levels as he did and then making it so massively just illustrates his strength to make it in the game even more for me. Too many prem kids drop down and think they're too good to be where they end up and then their careers eventually fizzle out. Football isn't just ability it's that mental strength as well that makes the truly top players..
 
( I've not seen it yet & only have terrestrial/ no subscription) - but I expect the makers will just use the same 30 second film that we see in the our Pre-Match "This is North End" thing. If people are lucky.
I'm betting there will be more minutes of 'Posh' shown than of D.B.:s time at Deepdale.
And no mention of Ferguson whipping him back to Old Trafford as soon as he got the news about his 'Wonderkid' - when Becks was supposed to be staying for the entire season.
Cheers, Baconface.
 
ernest said:
Unfortunately I never saw Beckham playing for us live only brief recorded highlights. From what I recall we might have made the Play-Offs that season if he had been allowed to stay. But that is just one of those things.
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I saw every game he played, home and away.
We made the play offs that season and got beat by Bury 0-1 in both games.
No doubt Beckham would have made the difference and players like Neil Trebble could even score from the crosses he delivered.
However we didn't go up, but the season after we had Saville and Wilko and was one of my favourite seasons watching us, so in the end I am glad he was called back.
 
I was still at primary school at the time but remember Beckham's loan spell well. Despite hardly playing in the first team at Old Trafford by that point he was already known as a free kick specialist so arrived with a bit of fanfare. I remember that he was a sub during his first game at home to Doncaster and a few of the old timers on the Town End were doubting that he had what it took to make in in the bottom tier whilst he was warming up. He came on as a sub at halftime and the debate still rages today as to whether the goal he was credited with from a corner was his or whether Ryan Kidd got his head to it before it crossed the line. At the time I thought it was Kidd's goal but the sight lines from the town end for a 9 year old weren't the best.

The free kick against Fulham was top draw and the overall team performance against Bury in a 5-0 home win was one of the highlights of what was a decent season on paper but often a tough watch. Had he stayed we might have won the play offs but would have perhaps struggled in the division up and the football at times during the 1995/96 was great but the atmosphere in the ground outstanding.

I get why Beckham has his critics on and off the pitch and perhaps he wouldn't have courted the limelight as much these days with the amount of social media around but he's constantly proven that whilst he looks like a soft arsed southerner he can hold his own.
 
Drunks said:
I saw every game he played, home and away.
We made the play offs that season and got beat by Bury 0-1 in both games.
No doubt Beckham would have made the difference and players like Neil Trebble could even score from the crosses he delivered.
However we didn't go up, but the season after we had Saville and Wilko and was one of my favourite seasons watching us, so in the end I am glad he was called back.
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Thanks - I had a feeling when I wrote initially that might have been one of our play-off failure seasons. I suppose we might in other circumstances have seen Beckham playing for us at Wembley - now wouldn't that have been something. But foootball is is full of might-haves and maybes.
 
Oh Hughie Costello said:
I was still at primary school at the time but remember Beckham's loan spell well. Despite hardly playing in the first team at Old Trafford by that point he was already known as a free kick specialist so arrived with a bit of fanfare. I remember that he was a sub during his first game at home to Doncaster and a few of the old timers on the Town End were doubting that he had what it took to make in in the bottom tier whilst he was warming up. He came on as a sub at halftime and the debate still rages today as to whether the goal he was credited with from a corner was his or whether Ryan Kidd got his head to it before it crossed the line. At the time I thought it was Kidd's goal but the sight lines from the town end for a 9 year old weren't the best.

The free kick against Fulham was top draw and the overall team performance against Bury in a 5-0 home win was one of the highlights of what was a decent season on paper but often a tough watch. Had he stayed we might have won the play offs but would have perhaps struggled in the division up and the football at times during the 1995/96 was great but the atmosphere in the ground outstanding.

I get why Beckham has his critics on and off the pitch and perhaps he wouldn't have courted the limelight as much these days with the amount of social media around but he's constantly proven that whilst he looks like a soft arsed southerner he can hold his own.
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Beck got sacked in November / December and Peters took over and fairly quickly fundamentally changed the style of play and the general feeling about the place. The second half of that season was generally a very good watch with us starting to play some very decent football and climbing the table up to the playoffs where we were basically a decent goalscorer short (which was obviously addressed over the summer!) After the stasis of the post McGrath years under Chapman and Beck it was a very refreshing change! For me, Peters deserves a massive amount credit for understanding what Preston North End is and having the personality to carry it off.

Signing Beckham was a big deal at the time - I remembered seeing him play for Man Utd in the champions league (think it was a meaningless match as they'd been knocked out already) and he was impressive. When he was called back he played a few times in the first team and was a regular for them the following year. In retrospect we were lucky to get such a talent at that stage of his development as a League 2 team. It would definitely not happen nowadays!
 
Drunks said:
I saw every game he played, home and away.
We made the play offs that season and got beat by Bury 0-1 in both games.
No doubt Beckham would have made the difference and players like Neil Trebble could even score from the crosses he delivered.
However we didn't go up, but the season after we had Saville and Wilko and was one of my favourite seasons watching us, so in the end I am glad he was called back.
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Hat tricks for both in a 6-0 win over Mansfield.
Savilles stand out season. Never had one to match before or after.
 
ernest said:
Unfortunately I never saw Beckham playing for us live only brief recorded highlights. From what I recall we might have made the Play-Offs that season if he had been allowed to stay. But that is just one of those things.
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We did make the play-offs.

We got beat off Bury.
 
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