“When he hit it, I assumed, ‘You cheeky bastard’. The ball was within the air and I used to be pondering, ‘The gaffer’s going to kill him’. But it surely was floating and floating…” Gary Pallister’s response to David Beckham’s half-way line aim
It didn’t take lengthy for David Beckham and his younger Manchester United team-mates to develop the behavior of creating rivals, opponents and pundits look a tad daft.
Beckham and his Class of 92 cohort have been the propelling drive behind the Pink Devils’ 1995/96 Premier League title win, making a mockery of Match of the Day pundit Alan Hansen’s notorious ‘you may’t win something with youngsters’ gambit in the beginning of that marketing campaign.
