David Beckham's Response

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The family feud has had a number of dedicated threads already, this is not a repeat.

I want to focus on DB's today's response, available here: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jan/20/children-make-mistakes-david-beckham-brooklyn-post

"Children make mistakes" - I find it incredibly offensive and gaslighting. His son is a 26 year old adult man. A husband. He isn't talking about a 5 year old in Reception here.

I think his PR advised him to put children into his response to seemingly soften it, but I think he's very undermining to Brooklyn and this language smacks of being controlling.

AIBU?

Well given the other two claims have been seriously been credibly disputed I'd go with the groom being mentally challenged until he coughs up the evidence.

Yes, and a young man has every right to assert his right to his own life. He asked them to communicate with him in private and they continued with social media performances. The price of being born wealthy is not that you have to do everything your parents want you to. They either want to share their wealth with their kids or they don’t.

Wealth also does not lessen the impact of emotional abuse.

You could say that about any A listers

Now he and his wife are doubtless living off her parents. Adulting 👍

Different interpretations of facts are extremely common in disagreements - especially where the atmosphere at the time was busy and noisy with a lot happening. It's an extraordinarily massive leap to say he is mentally challenged.

It seems to me there are two real problems at play in this situation, the first being the monstrously unnatural influence of social media feeding an unhealthy obsession, both in the people supplying the private details and the people driving that process by following it.

The second problem - which isn't wholly unrelated to the first - is the ridiculous amount of emotional energy that goes into weddings these days, with the determination that they should be some kind of perfect performance. They are merely a celebration and declaration of love, something to be embraced in an open-hearted way, not executed immaculately to show off. If truth be told, the bits the guests most enjoy are the bumps that needed ironing out - and that's if they even notice. Now the whole world knows about VB's dance, when in reality probably some of those present were oblivious. And the dresses I am sure were fine (haven't seen them myself). It really doesn't matter who made them, just that she had something appropriate to take her vows - which is the entire point, or should be.

I suspect BB has other scars from his very public upbringing that he didn't quite get around to sharing in that statement and which might be more significant. I can see the thing about his name must have felt distressing. But those are things he should address privately. The wedding blips just weren't worth the fuss. All the same, it hardly makes him mentally challenged. He is just at the centre of a highly emotionally charged collision of families in a situation where it can generate public interest. These sorts of altercations are dime a dozen, it is just they don't get the air-time this one has generated. And they almost always involve different versions of what happened.

Today's bash a Beckham thread.

son or daughter

That's fine when referring to one of them. I will say my son or my daughter. I will say my sons, if referring to just my male offspring, or my daughters, if referring to my female offspring. The collective are 'my children'. They will be my children when they are in their 90s.

Next time someone asks me how many children I have I'm not going to say, "Oh, I don't have any children, just sons and daughters." lol. Their face will be something.

At 50, I am still my mother's child and always will be.

Some kids are pricks, some parents are dicks. Some kids are pricks with dicks for parents. I wonder whether BB is a prick with dicks for parents, or just are prick or whether his parents are just dicks or may be none of them are pricks or dicks

^I think the burning question of the hour is: What the hell is David Beckham doing at Davos??
It's bizarre!^

I agree.

All these people commenting on Davos, have you actually been there?? If you have no clue what happens there why comment on how bizarre it is.
plenty of celebrities are there every year promoting charities, he was there last year for Unicef. Matt Damon is there this year too and was there before.
beckham also got a prize from the WEF last year.

It's just another cheap sneer on the Beckhams. I don't recall Adam Peatty's mum being disputed on her account of her son's disloyalty. Yet every man and his dog appears to know the inside of the Beckham family.

Proof.

Fergie was right. He knew she was ruining his football career at Man U and she did.
He had to go to Spain.
He was just a footballer when they met.
She wanted something else. Which she got.

DB is offering a measured response.
BB has slagged his parents off because of their “Brand”.
DB is protecting that “Brand”, created to protect their DC, by behaving as the DF of the prodigal son.
DB is not stupid.
BB is a product of his childhood, and, like most 26/27 year olds, is acting like a 16/17 year old at his age: modern living allows our DC to grow up far slower in matters related to maturity, but positively reinforces their autonomy in matters of sex and relationships - even though most are at least 20 years behind in those matters, compared to the previous generation.
BB is very, very lucky to have DParents who are ready to forgive him when the sh1t hits the fan (as I am sure it will, eventually, and with dreadful certainty)

I thought David did a marvellous job at Davos, both in fending off the vultures and his very clever talk on children and social media.

You're mistakening assuming that Agapiou, who is quoted, is a staff member of the video company. The article doesn't state that.

Agapiou was there as a wedding guest as the partner of DJ Fat Tony who played a set. Fat Tony has also publicly said that it's true.

From what I read, he only said one sentence which was quickly deleted, which is 'I was there, she did, he's telling the truth'

Which bit is he referring to? All of it as in she hijacked the dance and was 'inappropriate'

Or that she was inappropriate

Or that she hijacked the dance

Or that she danced with him?

I mean, I'm not him, but it seems he meant all of it.

The reason I think that is because, after deleting that message he posted a second sentence: "good on him for finally speaking out!"

So no, he didn't just post one sentence in total.

Is that you Confucius?

modern living allows our DC to grow up far slower in matters related to maturity, but positively reinforces their autonomy in matters of sex and relationships - even though most are at least 20 years behind in those matters, compared to the previous generation.

Yes this explains a lot. Add in the "know-it-all" attitude after a crash course in psychology courtesy of Tik-tok and I think you've hit the nail on the head.

Great post.

No it isn’t.

DB’s statement is hugely patronising, laughably so. BB is an adult. It’s a fact every single parent makes mistakes(even the Beckhams with their highly curated image). Good parents own parenting mistakes , validate and respect their children’s opinions. That’s how you build good adult relationships. DB is in a tricky situation because if he does own parenting mistakes it damages his image and the Beckham brand. It will be interesting to see what the and Beckhams put first -brand or son. Sadly I suspect and going by DB’s words brand will win.

And re his ridiculous comments re letting children make mistakes on social media - er no we don’t. Social media is hugely dangerous we don’t just sit back and let children at best become damaged by social media and at worst abused.

The arrogance thinking the world needs parenting and social media advice from the Beckhams, particularly given the current situation.🤔