David Beckham has said he made mistakes during his time at Manchester United that led to a breakdown in relations with Sir Alex Ferguson. Beckham progressed from the youth ranks at Old Trafford but was sold by Ferguson to Real Madrid in 2003. Beckham accepts that his celebrity status and marriage to Victoria, a former Spice Girl, gave Ferguson cause to doubt his professionalism. There were certain decisions I made back then that were wrong and I can see why the manager got so frustrated. “We had a really tough youth team manager, Eric Harrison, who kept us all in place, and then obviously we had Ferguson.

Source: The Guardian January 29, 2017 20:26 UTC