One Manchester United-related revelation which Coogan imparts is that, in 1997, he was present at a historic football\/pop culture crossover moment. <\/p>\n
“I was out in Manchester, this was a long time ago, with David Beckham and Ryan Giggs,” he says.<\/p>\n
“And I was on a night out after this charity event, the night he met Victoria Beckham.”<\/p>\n
Yes, Coogan was at the genesis of Posh and Becks.<\/p>\n
“I was sort of there, hovering,” is his summation of his involvement. <\/p>\n
“You were his wingman?” I ask, slightly incredulous at how this detail has only emerged 29 years later.<\/p>\n
He is now trying to play it down: “Not really, no. Ryan Giggs was there, too,” lowering himself one position in the power rankings of Beckham’s posse for that evening.<\/p>\n
Then details start to return to him about Beckham’s attire. “I remember he was very trendy. He was wearing a suit with shoes and no socks, a fashionable thing for a young man to do. Has that gone away now?” he enquires hopefully. <\/p>\n
So when David was chatting to Victoria, was Coogan left having to make small talk with the other Spice Girls?<\/p>\n
“No, it wasn’t quite like that,” he reminisces, before the story takes another strange turn. <\/p>\n
“When I was on tour, someone stole all our musical equipment and the Spice Girls lent me theirs.”<\/p>\n
This was around the time of Coogan’s Portuguese crooner alter ego, Tony Ferrino. <\/p>\n
I again ask for clarification on what his link with the Spice Girls was.<\/p>\n
“They were in Manchester at the same time that I was doing gigs. And David Beckham was there, too.<\/p>\n
“So, you know, I’ve been around for a while. I’ve seen a few things.”<\/p>\n
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