David Beckham’s 29 Questions With Gary Neville | Overlap Xtra
Summary
TLDRIn this entertaining interview, David Beckham reflects on his life and career, discussing favorite TV shows, meals, drinks, and holidays, as well as memorable goals, hairstyles, and his love for fashion. He also shares insights into his family life, retirement, and admiration for other sports like basketball.
Takeaways
- 🏆 David Beckham scored his first World Cup goal in the 29th minute, which is also the number of quickfire questions he is asked in the interview.
- 📺 His favorite TV program is 'Only Fools and Horses', and his favorite band is 'The Stone Roses'.
- 🍲 His favorite meal is a traditional British dish of mashed potatoes with liquor and jelly dills.
- 🍷 His favorite drink is red wine, and he enjoys holidaying in wine countries like Tuscany.
- ⚽ He considers his goal against Greece as one of his best, particularly the one from the halfway line.
- 🎨 David has over 80 tattoos, with the first one being 'Brooklyn' and the second an 'angel'.
- 👕 His favorite tattoo is not specified, but he appreciates the artistry and personal significance behind each one.
- 👗 He has a fondness for fashion and has worn various iconic outfits, some influenced by his wife Victoria.
- 🤔 Beckham admits to being stubborn and doing things that annoy his wife, such as a particular habit involving a box.
- 🏡 He enjoys the freedom of retirement, especially the ability to travel and not being restricted by the regimented lifestyle of a football player.
- 👨👧👦 He sees a bit of himself in all of his children, with each child reflecting different aspects of his personality.
Q & A
What is David Beckham's favorite TV program?
-His favorite TV program is 'Only Fools and Horses', although he also loves 'Friends'.
Which band does David Beckham consider his favorite?
-His favorite band is the Stone Roses.
What is David Beckham's favorite meal?
-His favorite meal is a traditional dish from Manchester, which includes mashed potatoes, liquor, and jelly dills.
What is the drink David Beckham prefers to have?
-He prefers red wine as his favorite drink.
What is David Beckham's favorite holiday destination?
-His favorite holiday destination is in the wine country, possibly Tuscany.
What is the best goal David Beckham has ever scored according to the interview?
-He mentions the goal against Greece as one of the best goals he has scored.
How many tattoos does David Beckham have?
-He has over 80 tattoos, with the number possibly being 81 at the time of the interview.
What is the origin of David Beckham's interest in tattoos?
-His interest in tattoos comes from his father, who has old school tattoos like ships and words.
Which of David Beckham's tattoos is his favorite?
-The interview does not specify which tattoo is his favorite, but he mentions that it's hard to pick one.
What does David Beckham like most about retirement?
-He enjoys the freedom to do things he couldn't do when he was playing, especially the ability to travel.
What is David Beckham's favorite hairstyle?
-He has always loved the skinhead hairstyle because it was easy and required no maintenance.
Which hairstyle of David Beckham's caused the most controversy?
-The mohawk and cornrows hairstyles caused the most controversy, with the mohawk being particularly short-lived due to his coach's disapproval.
What is David Beckham's favorite basketball player?
-His favorite basketball player is Kobe Bryant, whom he admired for his athletic ability and dedication.
What is the one thing that annoys Victoria at home about David Beckham?
-One of the things that annoys Victoria is a certain habit of David's that he has had for about 15 years, which is not specified in the transcript.
What is David Beckham's favorite Spice Girls song?
-His favorite Spice Girls song is 'Say You'll Be There', which has a special meaning as it was playing when he and Victoria were set up in separate beds during a sleepover.
Who is the one player from the past David Beckham would have loved to play with?
-He would have loved to play with Sir Bobby Charlton, who was his hero and also his father's hero.
What is David Beckham's favorite thing to cook?
-He enjoys cooking paella with ingredients like chicken, squid, and shrimp, as well as making a great ragu sauce with fresh pasta.
Outlines
🏆 Quickfire Questions with a Sports Star
In this segment, the sports personality answers a series of quickfire questions, revealing personal preferences and anecdotes. Favorite TV show is 'Only Fools and Horses,' with 'Friends' a close second. The Stone Roses are his favorite band, and a unique green dish of mashed potatoes, liquor, and jelly dills is his favored meal. Red wine is his preferred drink, and Tuscany stands out as a holiday destination. He reminisces about memorable goals, particularly one against Greece, and discusses his extensive collection of tattoos, including the first one inked in honor of his father. The conversation also touches on family life, revealing habits that annoy his wife, Victoria, and his tidiness compared to her.
🎖 Reflecting on Life and Style
This paragraph delves into the subject's post-retirement life, highlighting the newfound freedom to pursue interests restricted during his sports career. The love for travel and trying different cuisines is evident. The discussion moves to fashion, with the subject expressing his fondness for the skinhead look due to its low maintenance and admitting to being influenced by both Victoria and his own taste. The segment also covers his stubbornness, a trait he shares with his children, and his favorite activities, including waking up to coffee and cooking, with paella and ragu sauce being specialties. His appreciation for basketball and admiration for Kobe Bryant are also shared.
🥅 Football Memories and Aspirations
The final paragraph focuses on the subject's football career, discussing the best player he ever played with and his admiration for past legends like Bobby Charlton. It also touches on his childhood idol, Brian Robson, and how he sees aspects of himself in his children. The conversation concludes with a light-hearted moment, speculating who he would want to take a last-minute free kick, reflecting his camaraderie with former teammates.
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Keywords
💡World Cup
💡Quickfire Questions
💡Favorite
💡Tattoos
💡Retirement
💡Fashion
💡Hairstyle
💡Influence
💡Best Player
💡Childhood Idol
💡Spice Girls
Highlights
Favorite TV program is Only Fools and Horses, though Friends is also loved.
Favorite band is The Stone Roses.
Favorite meal is mashed potatoes with liquor and jelly dills, a traditional dish.
Preferred drink is red wine.
Favorite holiday destination is wine country, possibly Tuscany.
Best goal ever scored was against Greece, not the one from the halfway line.
Has 81 tattoos, with the first one being 'Brooklyn'.
Favorite tattoo is difficult to choose, but father's influence is clear.
Enjoys the freedom of retirement to travel and do other activities.
Loved the skinhead hairstyle for its ease and simplicity.
The mohawk hairstyle caused controversy and had to be shaved off.
Feels good about his fashion choices, even if others disagreed.
Fashion sense was his own, not heavily influenced by Victoria.
Best player ever played with is Zinedine Zidane.
Favorite city in the world is London.
Being David Beckham helps get a seat at a restaurant.
Childhood idol was Bryan Robson, who also influenced his middle name.
Sees a bit of himself in all his children - stubbornness in Romeo, kindness in Harper, caring in Brooklyn, and humor in Cruz.
Starts the day with waking up the kids and having a cup of coffee.
Favorite sport other than soccer is basketball, admires the athleticism and entertainment.
Favorite basketball player is Kobe Bryant for his skill and dedication.
Favorite Spice Girls song is 'Say You'll Be There', significant in his relationship with Victoria.
Prefers Batman as a superhero, appreciating Robin's outfit.
Only received one assist from Gary Neville in 35 Premier League assists.
Would love to have played with Bobby Charlton, a family hero.
For a last-minute free kick, would choose to have David Seaman take it.
Transcripts
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right pets welcome to the overlap we're
in qatar which is to be fair about as
windy as manchester at this moment in
time i'm going to ask you 29 quickfire
questions because that is the minute
that you scored your first world cup
goal against colombia and the first
question is what's your favorite tv
programme only fools and horses still i
love friends but only fools and horses
is always a favorite
favorite band
stone roses
stone roses favorite meal
is it still that stuff mashed potatoes
and liquor and jelly dills you have to
get a picture of this stuff it's like
green it's not like our pie and mash up
in manchester it's like it's proper
prime though
favorite drink i'm gonna go i'll call it
drink first are we able to talk about
alcohol on television of course red wine
your favorite holiday destination um
wine country maybe tuscany
what's the best goal you've ever scored
greece goal against greece not there not
the halfway line one though actually i
forgot about that one yeah that one
yeah i first said it halfway the halfway
line to be fair put you on the map did
it yeah it did it did
how many tattoos do you have i was
reading it on the internet and it said
you rather got 67 or 80.
do you know the number i probably have
81 now
individual 81 yeah
i remember your first one
hello because i had it done and then i
stayed at your house
no that was the second one so the first
one was brooklyn on the bottom of my
back the second one was when i had it
was the angel and then i was sleeping at
your house at the time and it stuck to
the bed
which is your favorite tattoo
favorite tattoo where's the tattoos come
from by the way what was it just my dad
your dad yeah my dad my dad obviously
had he's got old school like ships and
things like that and he's got mom and
dad and
my favorite way it's hard to pick a
favorite one favorite
kids names kids names
and victorias
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throw that one in
what's the one thing that you do that
annoys victoria at home
i think i have a couple
i've got a couple of things
i've got this um
that does it that that's from the box
that's from the boss she doesn't love
that why do you do that just
you do you have always done it don't you
i've not always done it maybe for the
last 15 years
there's probably a couple of other
things as well i do that annoy her to be
honest i'm very clean and she's not
as in
i like to i'm tidy
she does wash though can you come yeah
she washes yeah yeah she washes from
time to time
what do you like most about retirement i
think that i can do other things that i
couldn't when we were playing because
obviously when you play it's
everything's so regimented you have to
eat the right things drink the right
things you can't travel and i think the
travelling part is is the part that i
love
what's the best hairstyle you've ever
had apart from this one
uh
i always liked the skinhead i always
loved the skinhead because it was easy
you just didn't have to do anything with
it so i love the skinhead would you go
back there again skin it yeah
what's the hairstyle that's caused the
most controversy you tell me
is it the more
probably the mohawk well how long did
that last i only did that last of my
heart it lasted until the gaffer saw it
and then it had to go and then he made
me shave it in the changing room
mohawk and probably the cornrows
cornrows what's the calm rolls do you
remember nelson mandela what are the
things that yeah i had those done in the
south of france when i had a glass of
rosie
what's the favorite outfit you've ever
worn
that you remember the iconic picture
that you think yeah that that's when i
looked yeah i looked good yeah
i always felt i look good
i look back now and i'm not sure i did
but i always felt that i was always
wearing the right thing at the time i've
never asked you this i should know
really where did the fashion come from i
know you were always fashion but did
some of it come from victoria did some
of it come from external advice did some
of it come from you to be honest people
always thought that victoria had a big
influence over what i was wearing the
decisions i was making with hairstyles
or tattoos or you know the clothes i was
wearing but i always made you know the
the decision of wearing a full leather
outfit or a full denim outfit or
whatever i was wearing at the time i i
just loved fashion you know i loved i
loved wearing different things and
different clothes and things like that
and to be fair the more people told you
not to wear something that was the worst
thing you could do with you one of the
worst things yeah i've been stubborn as
hell aren't you i
i don't think i've changed i'm still the
same now you know even you know if
someone says to me don't do it i will do
it
the best player you've ever played with
more simple the best player i've ever
played with yeah from you
um
sedan
close
favorite city in the world london
still he's still happy on about it of
course
that's why you spend so much time down i
know yeah it's a bit better i used to
hate it but then you all of you lot did
oh london at east london all cottonies
slash cotnies
you're all down there now oh can you
book me a restaurant
but he texted me the other day bex can
you get me in this restaurant what's the
best thing about having david beckham
you always get a seat at a restaurant
it's unbelievable it's incredible the
contacts are incredible your childhood
idol
brian robson
we know that we know that one which of
your children do you most see in
yourself
it's an obvious thing i see a bit
of me in all of the kids the
stubbornness of romeo
he's got my stubborn side
the kindness of harper i'd say brooklyn
is a softie and he's very caring
and cruz
because victoria's always said that i'm
quite funny and nobody knows that
which i thought people did know that but
uh cruz is quite a character so i'd like
to say cruz has got
you know my kind of character and funny
side so a bit bit of all of them
what do you do first thing in the
morning when you wake up what does your
morning look like
well i first do a cup of coffee actually
i'll wake the kids up first and then i
have a cup of coffee i love coffee do
you um what coffee drink i go from this
cafe is it you know it's the weird thing
is that i'm going to sound like a right
knob now
in london i have just black coffee right
in the countryside i have a latte
so i do so it makes me sound a bit of a
knob but i don't know why i never have a
latte in london
and i never have black coffee in the
countryside why is that i don't know
when you were younger i would have said
definitely you're a city boy
definitely in the ta in the city you're
always driving around you're always
driving around the city all the time
at night time i love the countryside so
the customer always loved the country
but i love the combination i love the
fact that obviously i'm during the week
i'm in i'm in london because the kids
are at school but then you know weekends
i'm in the countryside i love being in
the country
favorite thing to cook i make a good
paella yeah yeah well i may i also make
a great ragu sauce
but is that bolognese where we come from
that's bolognese in berry um
ragu sauce with fresh pasta but i make a
good paella with chicken squid
shrimp oh yeah right what's your
favorite other sport basketball
basketball yeah is that a new thing or
is that something it was never
basketball is that because of the
america i just love everything about
basketball the entertainment side the
act they're they're real athletes yeah
um and so i love everything about
basketball who's your favorite
basketball player
kobe
kobe was because i you know i was i was
in l.a at a time where you know he was
unbelievable i mean it was always
unbelievable but
you know the championships that they
were winning at that time
you know the the rivalry between lakers
and the celtics kobe was just a
different animal you know
we've grown up you know when we go and
watch a sporting event
you stay there until the last second
until that whistle goes and i was the
same at basketball games people hated
going with me to a basketball game
because normally if the game's done with
two minutes ago you get up and leave
i stayed there to watch kobe walk off
that court because he was just
an unbelievable athlete and unbelievable
person and just the best
your favorite spice girl song say you'll
be there
why because that's on the victorian one
that was the one that where we were set
in separate beds
in our room did your draw mulled over
moved over
i think
yeah i remember yeah did you invite
victoria to the players lounge a couple
of weeks later did you tell me that you
can come clean absolutely social media
wasn't like part of our lives then no
no i had no
yeah i just i just found out that she
was there it was just
i don't know just meant to be i suppose
gary
favorite superhero
batman
i like robin
i just like his outfit phil or gary
how many of gary neville's 35 premier
league assists
were for david beckham
quite a few i'd say
no
one
one
maybe one let's say one
one player from the past that you'd love
to have played with so someone that was
playing before you started
bobby charlton
you're always your hero anybody
charlotte he was my dad's hero that's
why my middle name's robert
i didn't know that you know really no
yeah and you won the bobby charles
soccer school didn't you yeah so i'd
love to have played with uh sir bobby
well i was taking long throws in berry
yeah somewhere
right finally
a last-minute free kick
you can't choose yourself who would you
want on it
see dan
see you soon
brilliant bex cheers mate good to see
you
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