By Chris Wright
Almost a month into his five-month Parisian love affair, the beautiful, beautiful man that is David Beckham made his PSG debut in the freezing, rain-swept environs of the Parc des Princes, coming on for the last 15 minutes of the 2-0 victory over third-place Marseille in Ligue 1’s famous ‘Classique’ encounter on Sunday evening.
Beckham entered the fray on 76 minutes, took up his station in a deep-lying central midfield role and began pinging the passes around – some accurate, some not so accurate – before going on to play a decisive hand in Zlatan’s second goal which, added to Lucas Moura’s deflected opener, keeps PSG top of the table with a three-point lead over Lyon…
Le ange et la démon
“People of Paris, are you not entertained?!”
While it’s a bit of a stretch to call them “highlights” per se, here’s Becks’ debut cameo in edited form…