{"id":299638,"date":"2023-11-17T09:24:22","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T09:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/?p=299638"},"modified":"2023-11-17T09:24:22","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T09:24:22","slug":"glenn-hoddle-responds-to-criticism-from-david-beckhams-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/soccer\/glenn-hoddle-responds-to-criticism-from-david-beckhams-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Hoddle responds to criticism from David Beckham's family"},"content":{"rendered":"
Glenn Hoddle says he has no problem with the negative view of him portrayed in David Beckham’s Netflix documentary.<\/p>\n
One episode of the series deals with Beckham’s red card against Argentina at the 1998 World Cup and Hoddle’s apparently less-than-supportive reaction to it.<\/p>\n
It dwells on Hoddle’s assertion that Beckham, then a Manchester United player, was ‘not focused’ ahead of the tournament in France, which led to him being benched for England’s opener against Tunisia.<\/p>\n
The Netflix show also features a post-match interview by Hoddle after England’s penalty shoot-out exit to Argentina in which he says Beckham’s red for kicking out at Diego Simeone ‘cost us dearly.’<\/p>\n
Beckham’s mum Sandra is scathing of Hoddle when interviewed. ‘Glenn Hoddle said his head wasn’t in the right place, didn’t he? I just put him on my hit list – people that upset me,’ she said.<\/p>\n
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David Beckham sees red as England crash out to Argentina at the 1998 World Cup in France<\/p>\n
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Beckham’s family criticise then England boss Glenn Hoddle in the star’s Netflix documentary<\/p>\n
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Victoria Beckham, pictured, heavily criticised former England manager Hoddle during the new Netflix documentary series about her husband David’s life and career in football<\/p>\n
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Beckham’s wife Victoria also criticised Three Lions boss Hoddle for not protecting the player amid a vitriolic fallout to his sending off.<\/p>\n
‘Glenn Hoddle didn’t come out and try to protect him. And how old was David? 23?’ she said.<\/p>\n
‘You’re a kid at 23. Glenn Hoddle was a man. I wouldn’t say a man actually, he was an older person [Hoddle was 40 at the time].’<\/p>\n
Hoddle didn’t feature in the documentary with the focus turning to United manager Alex Ferguson’s support of Beckham during the following season.<\/p>\n
But Hoddle, 66, has now responded, telling talkSPORT: ‘I’ve got no problem with David. He was a fabulous player for me and one of the best players this country has produced.<\/p>\n
‘I haven’t seen the documentary, I’ve got no worries with what he said. If it goes well, I wish him all the success.<\/p>\n
‘I believe his mum had a little dig at me. Well, my mum would have defended me to the hilt as well.<\/p>\n
‘My daughter sent me an interview I did after the game in France as well where I was defending him and saying we can’t make him a scapegoat.<\/p>\n
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Hoddle consoles Beckham as he walks from the field following his sending off in 1998<\/p>\n
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Hoddle benched Beckham for England’s 1998 World Cup opener against Tunisia, saying he ‘wasn’t focused’, before bringing him off the bench against Romania\u00a0<\/p>\n
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David Beckham also opens up on the extreme backlash he faced in the documentary series<\/p>\n
‘It was never a red card. I’ve looked at it and thought, ‘How has he given him a red?’ It was ridiculous.<\/p>\n
‘I haven’t seen it [the Netflix series]. With what happened to me five years ago [his heart attack on the BT Sport set], these things don’t bother me.’<\/p>\n
Hoddle handed Beckham his England debut in his first game in charge, a World Cup qualifier away to Moldova in 1996.<\/p>\n
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