Beckham 'will not accept' newspaper attack on his family
David Beckham has dismissed a German newspaper's vicious attack on his family as "sad".
The England football captain furiously hit back at the personal onslaught in mass-circulated paper Bild, describing it as a lowly attempt to shake his team's morale.
He said: "When it comes to my family that is one thing I won't accept and never will."
The article attacked his sister Joanna for being "fat", joked that his sons Romeo and Brooklyn were "dwarves" and described his mother Sandra as having the smile of a "peasant".
The journalist responsible for the insults, sports writer Tobias Holtkamp, has attempted to excuse the article as a bit of harmless fun and says the English translation makes it sound much worse than he intended.
David - who is married to former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham - was careful to make it clear his quarrel was with the journalist who wrote the piece, and not with the people of Germany.
