Living in America

Simon Lewis is one of the media mass detailed to follow the every move of Mr David Beckham. So what has he made of the last week in LA?

IT seems a lifetime away since your intrepid reporter left home in New York at the start of a 20-day odyssey to cover the arrival of one David Beckham in Los Angeles and his first tentative steps as a Galaxy player in Major League Soccer.

And tentative steps they have proven to be as Beckham followers across the world have once again been sent scurrying to their medical dictionaries in a bid to understand their idol’s latest complaint.