I have been watching too much TV. You can tell this, because I sat through a documentary about David Beckham playing football on every continent. It is Christmas though! Anyway, our David fulfilled his ambition of playing on Argentine soil - albeit in a charity match with a few kids. I was scanning the Northern League fixtures, having been frustrated by the postponements resulting from the continuous down pours of Christmas & Boxing Day and chanced upon the re-arrival of a Black Cat cult hero on the footballing scene. I wondered if Julio Arca would feel the same as Becks about turning out on the giddy heights of a piece of North Yorkshire turf, as he ran out with his new South Shields team mates at the Stokesley Sports Club. I decided to take a look.
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