Happy first of May. I've taken you to an historic spot today's Socios.

That there is the several hundred year old original Massia

where David Beckham stared out of the windows down the street at the hookers.

No clickbait, no headlines, straight from his own admission in his autobiography.

He won a Bobby Chart and Skills School to go and train in Barcelona for a week, lived in La Masia, looked out of that window, and it's true.

This street used to be absolutely jam-packed with what are now called six workers.

It was a carnival at night and Beckham was astounded.

By 1999 he was crossing for two goals and yeah, through the trees and the building works,

you can just see the goal north of the camp now, the north goal of the camp now.

We're with Beckham's crosses, Sheringham and Solskier, scored twice in the 1999 Champions League final.

I was there, I was working that night.

This strip is on partially for my love of the dandies but partially

because it was Alex Ferguson who coached them to that treble but in that camp now

goal nord right over there 20 years ago today Leo Messi scored his first professional senior goal.

He scored it in a big, big win towards the end of a season where they would lift their first

trophy in six years. Can you think about that? No trophies between 1999 and the end of season

2004-5, by which time young Leo Messi had debuted away at Hispaniol, had begun to show a little bit more

regularly and came on at the end of this match.

The 1st of May where Barcelona were leading 1-0 had to see off the win, came on late in the

game and his play pal, the guy who'd already identified him as very special, Ronaldino,

clipped him a lovely little ball over the top of the defence mese let it bounce once and lobbed valbuena the goalkeeper

lines went over on the far side put his flag up i still I still think he was wrong. To this day I think

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