With “unprecedented access” to the Beckhams, what will Netflix’s documentary tell us about Britain’s first family?
David Beckham was a footballer. That’s one thing the new Netflix documentary seems keen to point out. David Beckham played football, and he was good at playing football. There was some other stuff happening in the background, but if you’re going to take one thing away from the upcoming four-part documentaryIt would ordinarily be a little odd that a sports documentary about a footballer would have to convince you of his worth as a footballer.
There’s some very cute, unguarded images here too: Victoria filming the crowd at Old Trafford with a cutting-edge camcorder with one of those flip-out screens and apparently having a right giggle doing it, for instance. And there’s a little more dramatic irony than we’re used to in sports docs too. “It definitely didn’t change me,” Beckham says of his burgeoning fame. Then there’s Sir Alex Ferguson. “It changed him, no doubt about that,” says Ferguson.
But more than anything, it feels like a very clear restatement that David Beckham was a footballer, and a footballer who was very good and worked hard. The fame and Victoria and the red card against Argentina and the flounce to Real Madrid creep in and disrupt that, but that’s the main trunk of it. For a long time, ideas of Beckham’s worth as a footballer were kind of fluid: the fame was such a vast thing to try and get around, and for all that you might admire his right foot and his passing, someone would always be there to point out that he wasn’t particularly quick, didn’t have a particularly good left foot, or wasn’t that good in the air.
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