Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti admits he's a huge fan of LA Galaxy star David Beckham.
The Chelsea boss has only kind words for the player who came on loan from Los Angeles Galaxy to AC Milan in 2009, during Ancelotti's last few months in charge at the San Siro.
"I love the company of David Beckham," said Ancelotti. "One evening, while he was playing for AC Milan, I invited him to dinner in a restaurant in Parma.
"He refused to leave the restaurant. I kept insisting and he kept pleading with me, 'Please, one more course.'
"At one point I considered calling the police, handcuffs would have stopped him from cramming any more tortellini into his mouth.
"In the end, I managed to convince him with these words: 'Look, David, if we don't leave this restaurant, I'm going to arrange another Spice Girls reunion tour.' Fourteen seconds later we were back in the car, hurtling back toward Milan.
"I expected to be dealing with a movie star homesick for Los Angeles.
"But I was wrong. He's an impeccable professional and an almost excessively well-mannered gentleman."
