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Column: David Beckham and Ryan Giggs _ good (only?) reasons to watch Olympic football

Butch and Sundance, Lennon and McCartney and .

.. Giggsy and Becks? Please, Stuart Pearce, make it so. Because we're suckers for good double bills.Pearce, coach of the British Olympic men's football team, should shortly announce who is on his 35-player shortlist. If Pearce has any sense — and given that he titled his autobiography "Psycho," you'd have to be brave to tell him he hasn't — the tough former defender for England and Nottingham Forest must pick David Beckham and Ryan Giggs.Seeing the former Manchester United teammates reunited at London 2012 would, to be frank, be one of the few good reasons — maybe the only good reason, aside from Brazil and its 20-year-old star Neymar — to get genuinely excited about men's football at the Summer Games.Granted, at 37 for Becks and 38 for Giggs, these seniors — as President Barack Obama playfully pointed out when he hosted Beckham and the Los Angeles Galaxy at the White House in May — are nearly old enough to have fathered some of the youngst...

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