Fans Let Beckham Know Their Thoughts Sunday

A story worth watching is the continuing reception that awaits David Beckham in the U.S. Sunday night’s confrontation with fans and the loud boos from a minority of spectators at The Home Depot Center clearly rattled the English star and cannot be what Galaxy officials expected. From ugly signs to mocking his jersey to jeers, this is not how the entire Beckham Experiment was supposed to unfold. As the N.Y. TIMES notes today, the fact that it came "not in Rome or London or Barcelona, caldrons of European soccer, but outside Los Angeles -- where the atmosphere more often resembles an echo chamber -- left some participants in disbelief.” As one columnist states, Beckham is establishing himself as soccer’s “antihero” and is “rousing Angelenos from their accustomed apathy.” Isn’t that exactly what MLS and soccer needs?