Ferguson’s silence on Beckham speaks volumes

What David Beckham had sensed all week has come to pass. “It’s been seven years and I want it to happen,” he said a few days ago. “Me against Manchester United would be beautiful, wouldn’t it?” It means a first club return to Old Trafford on Wednesday 10 March for a player whose life has been defined by his 14 years at the place. Beckham, who will be nearly two months into his second loan at Milan from LA Galaxy when the meeting comes around, can have some genuine hope of playing too, in what would be his first European match on Stretford soil since the thrilling night of 23 April 2003, when his two second-half goals inside quarter of an hour gave Sir Alex Ferguson brief hope of what would…

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