"I have two sisters, and we lived in a household with a lot of love in it, but my dad was so tough on me with my Sunday league football team that he very rarely turned around to me and said, 'Well done, boy. You did well today, you played well,'" Beckham said.
Now, of course, Gordon Ramsay owns the place. If anyone can decide the dress code at a table of his own, it's the chef-proprietor himself. He can serve pigeon in a paddling pool and wear pyjamas if he likes. But ownership doesn't equal immunity from taste. There's a line between "relaxed contemporary cool" and "I've given up". And I'm afraid, Gordon, that night you were teetering perilously close to the latter - in trainers, no less.
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Former US Vice President Dick Cheney, who died on Monday at the age of 84, was a strong advocate for the first Gulf War and US-led invasion of Afghanistan, was a central player in the 2003 US invasion of Iraq and was one of the architects of the "War on Terror." Also, a look at how the collapse of the Oslo Accords haunts the Middle East on the 30th anniversary of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
Does your wardrobe include a half-zip jumper and a flannel shirt? Is your fantasy car a vintage Land Rover Defender? Do you know a buff Cochin from a bantam hen? If the answer is yes, you may just be one of the style icons of the season: rich autumn dad. The leader of this new style pack, known among fashion watchers as the Rads, is David Beckham, who this week was unveiled as guest editor of Country Life magazine.
David Beckham's long-standing love affair with adidas Predator boots continues, with the legendary midfielder unveiling a striking new signature pair: the adidas Predator Elite by David Beckham. Following the success of his first signature release in 2024, Beckham returns with a second design this time in a bold, attention-grabbing pink. The new boots fuse performance with personality, drawing inspiration from Beckham's own Major League Soccer team, Inter Miami, which he founded in 2018.
Such are the vagaries of celebrity beef, no one really knows what happened in between. But things had clearly ratcheted up when photos of David's 50th birthday party last month appeared online with no sign of Brooklyn.
Ovechkin has long been a huge soccer fan and claims Lionel Messi as his favorite player. He suited up for his hometown soccer team, Dynamo Moscow FC, in the summer of 2022 for a scrimmage.
Happy 50th mate. You're the best! Stand still today for once and reflect on everything you have achieved and done in these first 50 years of your life. We've won, lost, laughed and cried but had the most incredible times together.
Making predictions is a mug's game and that is never more true than this term. If anyone claims they predicted back in August that Nottingham Forest would be above Manchester City going into the final stretch of the season, they're a liar.