The Football Ramble HISTORY Specials: Beckham kicks Diego Simeone in the 1998 England vs Argentina game
Football Ramble
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🗓️ 29 May 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
David Beckham is not short of iconic moments for England, but perhaps the most memorable and important came when he was sent off against Argentina for kicking out at Diego Simeone in the 1998 World Cup. Here we look back at the story around the incident and the incredible journey that Beckham took towards redemption.
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| 0:00.0 | This is The News. Hello everybody, it's the Football Rumble of course and it's our World Cup |
| 0:18.9 | Specials and Association with history. We've got five of these World Cup specials. We started |
| 0:23.8 | in the first one back in 1990 with Cameroon's outstanding defeat of World Champions Argentina. |
| 0:30.0 | And now we've reached the fifth and final instalment. These five World Cup specials are brought |
| 0:34.3 | to you by history who in celebration of the World Cup us broadcasting 24-7 football documentaries |
| 0:39.6 | for two weeks starting on Monday 28th of May and you can watch history on Sky, Virgin, Beaty or |
| 0:45.7 | Talk Talk. Gentlemen, we've been threatening it for the previous four episodes of course. |
| 0:50.2 | It's now time to talk about David Beckham sending off against Argentina at France 98. |
| 0:55.3 | I'm keeping quiet because I interrupted you last time and I got out a lot of trouble. |
| 1:00.3 | Well David Beckham interrupted Diego Simioni's stand. |
| 1:04.6 | Shin, possibly. |
| 1:08.2 | Yes. A life changing moment in the life and times of David. |
| 1:13.0 | A life changing moment for me and on the other side of David Beckham. |
| 1:15.6 | It's very badly indeed. Yeah. Let's give a bit of background as we do on these. |
| 1:21.6 | Beckham of course put himself on the footballing map with his half-way line gold against Wimbledon |
| 1:26.1 | in 1996. Now he'd played a bit for Manchester United before then. |
| 1:29.5 | Well they won the title in 95 but he was he on the loan somewhere else for a bit of that season. |
| 1:34.4 | I mean only for about a month. Yeah and he played a few games. |
| 1:36.7 | He had been playing the Champions League as well for Manchester United but that was the moment |
| 1:40.8 | when when when everybody knew who he was and sort of started becoming a household name. |
| 1:44.8 | Of course. |
| 1:45.2 | So it was something he's poached. |
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