David and Victoria Beckham’s romance was a whirlwind from the off – with the former England captain claiming he knew he was going to marry his future wife before they’d even met
David Beckham believes in love at first sight, especially when it comes to his wife Victoria. He once confessed that he knew he had to meet her the moment he saw her on TV.
Their fateful encounter happened in 1997 when Victoria, then better known as Posh Spice, attended a Manchester United match.
At that time, she was the more famous of the two, riding high on the global success of the Spice Girls.
David reminisced about their initial meeting, saying they simply “said hi from across the room and that was it”.
But he was so smitten with the pop star that he couldn’t help but gush to his teammate Gary Neville, declaring, “I’m going to marry that one the posh one in the black dress.”
Victoria, who had previously expressed her ambition to be as renowned as Persil Automatic, also had her eye on David. She had even picked out a photo of him as her favourite footballer in a magazine before they met. “Basically, I went to a football match because I liked him and I heard that he liked me,” she disclosed to OK! Magazine, detailing how she went to the game with the intention of finding him.
Posh Spice, Victoria Beckham, was back at another football game a week after her first brief interaction with David Beckham, this time accompanied by fellow Spice Girl, Mel C. Recalling that memorable day, David said, “The second time we met, which was when Victoria came along with Mel C, I was a bit timid.
“I went to the bar and then I heard this little voice say, ‘I’m just going to the bar, Melanie.’ I’m quite a shy person. I had a drink in each hand and I saw Victoria come over, and I said ‘Alright? ‘ to her and just walked away. I thought ‘I can’t believe it. She’s come to the bar and I’ve just walked away. That was my chance and I missed it! ‘ But later we got chatting and we ended up being the last ones left in the [players’] lounge.”
After an hour-long chat, David remembers how Victoria gave him her phone number, saying, “She actually got the train up that day, so she wrote her number down on her train ticket, which I still have.” Victoria, on the other hand, recalls struggling to start a conversation due to her limited knowledge of football.
“It’s funny actually, because I’m not really into football at all,” she later admitted. “I mean, I go to the occasional game but I don’t understand the rules, offside and all the rest of it I only understand goals. So afterwards when I met him in the lounge I didn’t know what to say. I mean, what do you say? ‘Great game? ‘ I had no idea. So I probably said something naff like ‘Do you come here often?’”
“He is really close to his family,” she elaborated. “They always go to the football and when I met him down there, he was standing with his mum, his dad and his sister.” Keen to keep their budding romance under wraps, David and Victoria’s first date involved driving around east London in Victoria’s MG, on the lookout for a bar where they could escape the eye of the press. After settling into a quiet Chinese restaurant in Chingford, they were asked to leave upon trying to order just drinks!
With no other option, they ended up at Mel C’s flat, staying up late into the night for a chat. This was far from the wild time Victoria might have anticipated, given her previous opinion of footballers as being “immoral, drunk, s****ing everything that moves, hitting the women they keep at home”.
Upon meeting David, Victoria promptly ended her two-year relationship with florist Stuart Bilton. The pair fell hard and fast in love, going to great lengths to see each other despite their clashing schedules. “If it was me driving down to London to see her for seven minutes, I did it,” David recently confessed, adding, “Everything about Victoria, I loved. I didn’t know she was the strong woman that she was and I like that.”
Victoria remembered David’s extravagant efforts to see her, reminiscing, “I was on tour, but not knowing when I was going to see him was the difficult thing. He would do anything to just try and spend time with me. He would sometimes charter a tiny plane, like a two-seater plane, and he would come over literally for a few hours, then go back.”
Considering these grand gestures, it’s no shock that David’s mum Sandra recently confided she worried her son was becoming “addicted” to his new flame Victoria. Unbeknownst to her, less than a year later, their whirlwind romance was destined to escalate to unprecedented heights….
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Source: USA Today
