Is the Galaxy love affair over for our Becks?

David Beckham's stint with the Galaxy has brought it's fair share of controversy, thrills, and spills, and this latest chapter for Becks may just be the last. After being booed onto the field prior to the friendly draw with AC Milan, it appears the fan's love for Becks may have turned sour. His 5 month loan spell with the Italian club hasn't rested well with some fans, and David will surely be thinking about securing a permanent move across the Atlantic.

Not only would a move to AC be beneficial for David's football, but Victoria would be completely in her element. The ex pop singer, turned fashion fanatic has always expressed a desire to live and work in Italy's second largest city, world-renowned for it's pricey shops and smart businesspeople.

One could argue that Beckham's move to America was destined to fail. He's playing for a mediocre club that would struggle in the Premier League, in a mediocre League, with mediocre players, backing up suggestions further that Beckham was only in it for the money. It therefore seems that a move to Milan is quite probable, although perhaps not this year. It'll be interesting to see what occurs in January, when the European transfer window re-opens.

Beckham's original stint with Milan was very successful. He scored some important goals and played very well, well enough to earn a recall to the National side from Fabio Capello, another reason for why Beckham would want a move to the Italian giants - he's on the National coach's radar, and playing well.

Unfortunately for the Galaxy, the novelty of having such a big superstar playing for them seems to be wearing off, and fast. A move back to Europe seems the ideal route for Becks, a move that would round off an illustrious career.

Beckham's out-of-character antics cause a stir

Cool, calm, and collected are words you'd associate with English football icon David Beckham. Throughout his career Beckham has prided himself on his discipline on the football pitch, but his recent ugly confrontation with a Los Angeles Galaxy fan has come as a surprise to everyone.

Beckham has been used to his fair share of abuse and banter from the crowd, ever since his famous kick at Argentina's Diego Simeone during the 1998 World Cup in France. He received numerous death threats following that incident, and it seems he has learnt from that very big mistake. From then on in you would be pushed to find an incident where Beckham lost his discipline or got involved in a brawl on or off the pitch. However during the Galaxy's 2-2 friendly draw with AC Milan at the weekend, it seems that one fan pushed it just a little too far.

Following Beckham's five month loan spell at AC Milan, he received boos and jeers when running out onto the pitch for kick-off, and at the half time interval, things rather boiled over. Beckham jogged over to a corner of the crowd that had been giving him abuse throughout the duration of the first half. He subsequently pointed for one fan to make his way down the steps to join him at the bottom for what Beckham claimed after the match was just to shake hands. The fan refused and after a couple a bit more finger-wagging Beckham proceeded in trying to jump the advertising hoardings and make his way into the crowd. Fortunately for that one fan, security guards and stewards managed to hold Beckham back, and who knows what would have happened had he been allowed to make his way through.

Beckham said after the match that he was receiving some non-football related abuse, that he believed had gone too far. "I tried to get the guy to come down and shake my hand, but he was having none of it." This incident brings back memories of Eric Cantona's assault on a fan at Selhurst Park in 1995, by which Cantona was suspended for 9 months. I'm not suggesting that Beckham would have done the same, but I sure as hell wouldn't have blamed him if he had. Abuse like that is totally unacceptable. Fans are there to watch football, and support their team, and of course there's going to be a host of abuse aimed at players, but one would hope only football-orientated. When people bring personal feelings into it, and bring up family issues, that's when it crosses the line. Fans like these aren't football fans. They are hooligans and they shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a football stadium.

I wouldn't know directly, but I'm sure it can be very distressing for footballers receiving abuse, whether personal, racist or what have you. FIFA, The Fa, and all the other governing bodies should be aware of the situation, and they should be all working together to fight such behaviour. The 'kick racism out of football' campaign has been relatively successful, and if we have such campaigns for personal abuse as well, then the extent to it all will be reduced. I'm all for a bit of friendly banter at a football match, as long as it doesn't enter the realms of unacceptable, which unfortunately it did on this occasion. Lets hope throughout the next season of football we have less incidents like these, so we can just get on and enjoy the beautiful game.