Whoever said “Football is like a fertility carnival Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg, so I feel sorry for the goalkeeper” has a wrong perception about the goal keeper in a man’s life .

So what is it with football and marriage, one did say both involve balls …well jokes apart but on a serious note there is more to what happens off the field than what happens on the field and the one football player who bends it right is David Beckham who finally scored a perfect goal with his beloved goalkeeper and ‘to be wife’ Victoria and the score is only growing with the passing of time.

The couple started dating in 1997 by initiating low-profile dates – going out, casual shopping, dining out etc, until one day David knelt on one knee and proposed to Victoria. One interesting piece of their pre-nuptial event is that the couple preferred not to cut their engagement cake but, Instead they donated the cake to a charity event for a Community Primary School in Cheshire. The cake was “a replica of the foyer with Victoria sitting at the top and David sitting behind her .

So finally the day America celebrates it’s independence day was the very day in 1999 the couple got married at the 560-acre estate of the 1794, gothic Luttrellstown Castle. But this time their wedding cake which was topped with a nude sculpture of the newlyweds was indeed cut and distributed among the guests and speaking of guests. their wedding invitees included David and Debbie Seamon, the Spice Girls, and Sir Bobby Charlton who were one of the 230 or so invitees in the list.

If there is any couple who swears by tattoos then it ought to be David and Victoria, I mean the tattoos are so much reflective of their marriage and family life. So when asked about his tattoos Beckam says “Mine are all about the people in my life, my wife and sons, whom I want to have with me always. When you see me, you see the tattoos. You see an expression of how I feel about Victoria and the boys. They’re part of me.”-Source: Beckham: Both Feet on the Ground, page 284.

Thus parenthood also seems to be smooth sailing for the couple as for Victoria a mother of 4 this what she had to say “I know I would sacrifice anything for my boys (David and sons), including my career, even though I also know that they would never ask me to.” Source: Victoria Beckham. Learning to Fly: The Autobiography. 2005. pg. 516.

One wonders if this is a fairytale of two people falling in love and raising a family and more importantly staying together irrespective of the circumstances which life has in store. Now my point is if they can do it ..then why don’t other celebrity couples live life like them … can any body bend it like Beckham…!

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