David Beckham opens up about depression, family and football in new Netflix documentary

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Victoria Beckham has said the backlash David Beckham received after he was given a red card in the 1998 World Cup left him “clinically depressed”.A new Netflix series titled Beckham is set for release on Wednesday and it takes a look into the former football star’s career with interviews from Posh and Becks and other familiar looking faces.In episode two of the documentary series, Victoria, 49, and David, 48, discuss the abuse they received in the late 1990s after David was sent off during a game with Argentina.Following the match, a pub hanged an effigy of the star outside its premises and during Manchester United’s first away game the following season, at West Ham, the team bus was pelted with stones and pint glasses.