David Beckham sends a text during tonight's Wellington Phoenix v Adelaide United game. Photo / Reuters
For a side-show it was a good effort.
That Terry Serepisos is a clever guy - make the ticket for the Galaxy game also valid for the Adelaide United A-League clash and you've got a guaranteed bumper crowd. A New Zealand club match record of 18,345
to be precise.
Plus, get David Beckham to make a halftime appearance and capitalise on the city going soccer-mad, and you're onto a winner.
Out the Galaxy team trouped in their tracksuits, took the applause, received a New Zealand tourist souvenir of some kind, looked at a few thousand flashbulbs going off, and then they wandered back into the players' tunnel.
A circuit of the stadium would have been nice for the spectators on the other side of the ground, but you can't have everything.
As for tonight's game, Adelaide spoilt it a bit by winning, though it was an exciting second half in which the Phoenix equalised from the penalty spot, only for Adelaide to go back in front.
Final score, for the record, 2-1 to Adelaide.
Before the match, most of the crowd would have left home before TV One screened its Tony Veitch interview with Beckham, which once again served to show the superstar up as, basically, normal.
"You're a bloody good bloke," Veitch told him at the end. Quite, Tony.
Beckham even eats at normal restaurants, we now know after he was snapped at Monsoon Poon last night.
The renowned Martin Bosley's is right across the road from the Galaxy team hotel, but perhaps cash is a bit tight in the Posh and Becks household at the moment.
He'll be back at Westpac Stadium tomorrow night earning his crust.
