Becks fled to a tropical island but couldn't escape Posh's nagging: CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV 

David Beckham: For The Love Of The Game
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A scary presence loomed over David Beckham: For The Love Of The Game (BBC1) — unseen but ever threatening, feared by children and grown men. Its name was Victoria.
We never actually saw the thin and unsmiling Posh, but her existence was not forgotten for a moment.
In the first minute of this meandering documentary, two of David's mates dropped round and found him making his own breakfast. 'Where's the cook?' they joked. David blanched. 'I can't believe you called Victoria "the cook",' he whispered.

Globetrotter: David Beckham, pictured in Papua New Guinea, travelled the world in For The Love Of The Game
An 18-hour flight later, in tropical Papua New Guinea in the Pacific Ocean, the mates were criticising his driving. 'You sound like Victoria,' he muttered.
And even after he'd been travelling for a week, and was half a world away in Buenos Aires, his trouble-and-strife was still on his mind. When one of his children phoned, David warned: 'Your mum won't be happy if she finds you on the phone to me.'
Perhaps all this gave a false impression, and She Who Must Be Obeyed is really a soppy pushover, rather than the size-zero version of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
It's true that David does seem easily bullied. In Antarctica, after a game of football played on a snowfield, one of the team of scientists lobbed a snowball at him.