"It's scary to read things like that, you know, being the best player in England, but it gives me confidence. I'm not going to go around shouting about things that people say about me, but it's nice that they say it," he had said, on being referred to as "the new [Paul] Gascoigne".

From that point on, life was a fairytale. Man United was winning and so was Beckham.

"I dream a lot about football and a lot of them have come true for me."

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