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June 20, 2003


The Beckham of old. Unrecognizable, to save his oldest fans; without the frills and the fancy hairdos. Yet to capture the nation's imagination, for that matter the world's.

"I lived for the game. The football was the first thing I got out when I got up and the last thing I put away before I went to bed."

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