Rows, haircuts and spag bol: the Beckham Netflix doc left me longing for football’s less sanitised past | Lauren O'Neill
Forget the emotion, the fashion, the Rebecca Loos response – what stuck with me most after watching Netflix’s David Beckham documentary was the haircuts. As the film-makers trace the footballer’s life and cultural impact through new interviews, archival photographs and footage, one thing that they really impress upon you is the man’s ever-changing barnet.
Throughout his years at the top of English football in the 1990s and 2000s, Beckham variously wore his hair long, blond and angelic; shaved and rugged; with curtains; in a spiky bleached almost-mullet; in a mohican. At in her Friendsrole.
