Beckham’s sojourn at Paris Saint Germain,
“one last adventure”
as the curtain descended on his glittering career, may have been short and sweet, but the taste – as it is wherever he goes – was lasting.
No sooner had he pitched up at Parc des Princes in late January 2013, having penned a five-month contract that would take him past his 38th birthday, his new team-mate, a pre-United Zlatan Ibrahimovic – and a man for whom ‘shy’ would hardly be the first epithet you’d select – had experienced the full effect of the Beckham phenomena first hand.