Voices: Top marks for David Beckham’s dad – and not being a ‘praise junkie’
Top marks to David Beckham’s dad for taking a full two decades to come up with a compliment to pay to his son, by common consensus one of the greatest English football players of his generation.
“My dad never told me I’d done well really until my hundredth cap,” Beckham junior has revealed to James Corden in a podcast. “That was the first time he turned around to me and said: ‘You’ve made it, boy.’”
