David Beckham: Star's still got it with crossbar challenge
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Sparks flew between ex-Leicester and Barcelona footballer Gary Lineker and passionately political broadcaster Piers Morgan after they disagreed over whether David Beckham truly deserved star status as a footballer. It all began when Odell Beckham Jr’s performance at the Super Bowl 2022 caught the former Good Morning Britain presenter’s eye.
You might want to suck up to him, for whatever reason, but Beckham was the most overrated player in history.
Piers Morgan
“Great to watch a Beckham who can actually play football… #SuperBowl,” Piers tweeted out to almost eight million followers.
He included a photo of Odell on the pitch in his distinctive “Beckham Jr 3” shirt to punctuate his point.
BBC sports pundit, Gary fired back: ” You might dislike him, for whatever reason, but David [Beckham] was a great footballer. One of our finest.”
Piers responded: “You might want to suck up to him, for whatever reason, but Beckham was the most overrated player in history. Wouldn’t have got onto the Arsenal Invincibles bench.”
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The pair continued their cheeky back and forth argument swung back and forth, as Piers insisted that Gunners hero Freddie Ljungberg was in a “different league” to Beckham.
However, Gary responded by defiantly listing some of Beckham’s achievements, as he penned: “6 Premier Leagues, 2 FA Cups, 1 Champions League, 1 La Liga, 1 Ligue 1. Ballon d’Or runner up. 115 caps for England, 59 as captain. One of the best crossers of the ball the game has ever seen. Yeah, overrated.”
Piers was unimpressed, adding: “Take away the crossing & free-kicks [and] he was a fame-hungry snail with dumb haircuts who only won that much because of the truly great players around him.”
Their cheeky Twitter spat didn’t end there when Gary referenced one of Piers’ famous interviewees, Cristiano Ronaldo.
The former Leicester striker sneered: “Take away the crossing and free kicks? That’s the equivalent of saying about Ronaldo, ‘Take away the goals.'”
Piers has since clarified his comments about the footballer player.
He wrote: “Just to clarify, my opinion of Beckham’s football prowess is nothing personal… I think Messi’s overrated too.”
It is not uncommon for Piers and Gary to go back and forth on social media.
The friendship has survived banter on one more occasion, with the pair also clashing over Piers’ claims that the “woke brigade” had wrecked the 2021 Oscars award ceremony.
After the presenter tweeted that the ratings had fallen by 58 per cent, Gary argued back that no one had been able to visit the cinema during lockdown restrictions.
A few minutes later, Piers quizzed: “Hey grandpa, are you aware you can watch movies on streaming services?”
The ex-GMB host then appeared to be making a playful follow-up dig at Gary after they had lunch soon afterwards at the River Cafe in London.
He had posted a photo captioned: “Great lunch with my elderly mates” and included Gary’s screen name in the tags.
Between them, Piers and Gary have over 16 million followers, so the post garnered a great deal of attention, with many joining in the debate.
Meanwhile David’s son Brooklyn has been attempting to create a career as a celebrity sandwich chef, but faced criticism after it was revealed that each eight minute episode of his show cost $100,000 (£74,000) to create.
62 members of staff were recruited to help him out in the kitchen as he is yet to take formal culinary training.
The 22-year-old was not seen cooking any ingredients while attempting to teach his Instagram and Facebook fans how to perfect the dishes.
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