Brooklyn Beckham’s former QPR football coach Anthony McCool wades into the family feud in a new ITV documentary
17:19, 29 Jan 2026Updated 17:20, 29 Jan 2026
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Brooklyn Beckham’s former QPR football coach Anthony McCool has shared his thoughts on the Beckham family feud in a new ITV documentary. Anthony worked with Brooklyn when he was 14 years old and training at Queen’s Park Rangers. Anthony remembers one particular moment in which Brooklyn forgot to bring a drink to training – he says what happened next was “crackers”.
He explained: “This was then leapt on by this guy near us. He said, ‘Is there a problem?’ This guy had someone shoot off and before we knew it, he was back and burst into the dressing room like Jason Bourne with an earpiece in, with a crate of Lucozade.
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Anthony spoke about how the teen never seemed fully at ease(Image: ITVX)
“We were like, ‘What are you doing?!’ He said ‘Brooklyn needed a drink’. Everyone laughed but I looked at Brooklyn and thought, ‘this life is crackers’. He probably thought everyone was laughing at him. That’s what made me quite sad.”
In upcoming ITV documentary Beckham v Beckham: The Price of Fame? – which charts Brooklyn’s life and how the Beckham family fell apart – Anthony also spoke about how the teen never seemed fully at ease.
He said: “Brooklyn was just very quiet, didn’t really look you in the eye at first, that took quite some time, but very polite. He would worry me. We never saw any kind of massively high emotion or massively low [emotion]. It was almost like he was in this kind of daze. I think he was embarrassed at times.”
Last week, Brooklyn claimed his famous parents would always put the family’s image before anything else, and he’d had enough of staged social media posts. In Brooklyn’s scathing Instagram post, he also claimed his mother danced “very inappropriately” on him during his wedding reception after tying the knot with Nicola Peltz in 2002.
Brooklyn playing football as a youngster(Image: Daily Mirror)
Brooklyn and his dad in happier times(Image: AFP/Getty Images)
He fumed: “My mum hijacked my first dance with my wife, which had been planned weeks in advance to a romantic love song. In front of our 500 wedding guests, Marc Anthony called me to the stage, where in the schedule was planned to be my romantic dance with my wife but instead my mum was waiting to dance with me instead. She danced very inappropriately on me in front of everyone. I’ve never felt more uncomfortable or humiliated in my entire life.”
Anthony previously said he “felt sorry” for Brooklyn. In the wake of Brooklyn’s bombshell statement last week, he admitted he did witness “a strange dynamic” with Brooklyn “flanked by permanent security” at all times.
Posting on LinkedIn, he wrote: “Brooklyn Beckham getting piled on. But I felt sorry for the lad. I did see some bizarre carry on as his football coach at QPR and certainly saw the anxiety. I’m not on either side because I don’t know them and his parents were always polite to me.
“But I did witness myself a strange dynamic which is impossible for us to judge and predict how we would navigate it, both as parents and as a young person. I realised how tough it must have been for the lad. Yet I had coached many lads of famous parents, mostly well-known footballers. But this spell was on another serious level.
Beckham v Beckham: The Price of Fame? airs tonight at 7.30pm on ITV
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