Sir David Beckham fans blast Have I Got News For You over 'unacceptable' slur about his knighthood

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00:00He was meant not to get it, wasn't he?

00:01Because he'd been pitching for it, and it was considered bad form to be desperate.

00:06That's exactly right.

00:06In 2013, when he did not get a knighthood, he emailed his PR saying,

00:11they're a bunch of f***s, I expected nothing less.

00:14Who decides on the honours?

00:15It's a disgrace, to be honest.

00:17And if I was American, I would have got something like this.

00:22It would have been nice and maybe like poetic if Charles had got his own back

00:26just by, yeah, knighting him and then going,

00:28arise, you c***.

00:30I don't know that we are allowed to broadcast the C-words,

00:37but you did reference Victoria Beckham earlier, and we'll allow that.

00:41Oh, I like her reel. I didn't expect that reaction.

00:49I do have to clarify, David Beckham denies some of what is in these alleged emails.

00:54He says it's the work of Russian hackers.

00:56Some of the email.

00:57So like when he says, would of got, not would have got.

01:01Yeah.

01:01I think so.

01:06I don't know.

01:06Oh, I think so.

01:07You