The Queen has offered her thoughts on the crisis engulfing England – the David Beckham injury issue – and even proposed that her granddaughter, Zara Phillips, lay her healing hands on the hallowed foot to get the England team captain to the World Cup on time.
“I realise it’s very important for the country,” the British monarch said on Thursday of Becks’s broken left foot. “I don’t know enough about stress fractures to go into any detail but I do know he is not doing the right things to get it fixed.”
Queen Elizabeth, who was speaking at a Jubilee reception at Windsor Castle, did not explain what prompted her concerns but it is thought she might have been referring to Becks’s recent car accident. The footballer was involved in a minor car crash with an off-duty police officer last weekend.
Asked if she knew a good physiotherapist to help the 26-year-old football star on the road to recovery, the Queen replied, “I do actually. My granddaughter has just qualified.” She said Zara, who is Princess Anne’s daughter, had been instrumental in helping her jockey boyfriend Richard Johnson recover from a broken leg last year. “She has helped Richard get his leg fixed,” as the monarch put it.
Two weeks ago, Becks’s World Cup hopes seemed all but over after a tackle by Deportivo La Coruña’s Argentinian defender Aldo Duscher. It is now thought that, despite a fractured metatarsal bone, the footballer will be ready for England’s first match against Sweden on June 2.
Becks is currently spending his nights sleeping in a sealed tent which has a low-oxygen atmosphere to help maintain his fitness levels while he is unable to train.
The Queen is not known for her love of football but said she would be following England’s progress in the World Cup, which is to be held in Korea and Japan over the summer.
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