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For years, it’s been an open secret that David Beckham, OBE (Order of the British Empire), would love to be Sir David Beckham.

After being snubbed on multiple occasions, alleged leaked emails from 2017 showed him branding the honours committee responsible for making that call “unappreciative c***s” and insisting he didn’t “care about being knighted”.

One email also showed him telling a friend, “I expected nothing less. It’s a disgrace to be honest and if I was American I would of got something like this 10 years ago.”

Beckham claimed the emails had been doctored but also admitted to sending messages he regretted ‘in the heat of the moment’.

But still he soldiers on and perhaps, just perhaps, he’s getting closer. Consider this, via The Independent, about his choice to queue to see Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin rather than using his status to skip ahead:

Reports suggest Beckham was offered the chance to use a special access queue, but declined… opting instead to wait for 13 hours with the rest of the hoi polloi. Naturally, the public flocked to sing his praises; the old “national treasure” epithet has been slung around with abandon…

It has been reported that Beckham was, for many years, ineligible for the honour after being red-flagged by HMRC over his alleged involvement in a tax avoidance scheme. Reports also claim he has now been given the all-clear on the matter, leaving a knighthood in the near future a very real possibility.

Maybe he should have taken up cricket instead – Sir Andrew Strauss, Sir Alastair Cook, Sir Ian Botham.

They all won an Ashes series, though – Beckham won nothing with the English national team during the failed “golden generation” period.

More recently, Beckham has come under scrutiny for his role as an ambassador for the upcoming World Cup in Qatar. You know, the country where thousands of migrant workers have died over the past decade and where the rights of women and gay people are restricted.

One promo video features the former England skipper talking about how, in Qatar, “the modern and traditional fuse to create something really special” and his desire to bring his children to visit.

Some outlets have reported he pocketed more than £10 million to act as an ambassador for the tournament.

That’s not to say he doesn’t do a great deal of good work, and a new series airing on Disney+ from November 9 highlights just that.

Collider reports:

In what looks to be a joyous story of underdogs taking the spotlight and proving themselves as worthy opponents, David Beckham travels back to his boyhood hometown of East London to help a young group of players in the very league he once played in to better themselves both on and off the field…

At the heart of it all is a story about hope, determination, the love of the game, and the belief that nothing is impossible.

True that.

I mean, a guy with this hairdo is tipped to become a Sir:

That’s enough poking fun at Becks.

Let’s see the trailer for that series:

While Save Our Squad with David Beckham will shine a light on the players, a Netflix docuseries about Beckham is also in the works.

A release date has yet to be set but the streaming giant has confirmed a multi-part series charting his journey from youngster through to adulthood.

And, perhaps one day soon, a knighthood.

[sources:independent&collider]