There are some moments in football that live on forever. Moments that echo around the world, that seem to change the entire landscape in an instant, that set fans off arguing for decades. In this new series on COPA90 Stories, Eli will be bringing these magic moments to life with the help of the people who were there, and examining how they shaped the world around them.

In this video, we have the story of David Beckham between 1998 and 2001, almost unbelievably neat – a perfect narrative arc of sin followed by redemption, with the entire story resting on one ludicrously cool moment. We all know him as an unquestionable national treasure now, but it all could have been very different…

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