The LA Galaxy are a international powerhouse and the jewel of the league.

[Azerban]

A football-mad police community support officer is swapping the beat for Los Angeles to become a coach with David Beckham's team, LA Galaxy.

Andy Bridgman, who has been a PCSO in Horley, Surrey, for six years is also a qualified Football Association coach.



A coaching scout for Major League Soccer called him late last year to offer him the job and he is taking a 12-month career break to accept it.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/surrey/7944729.stm

This is what jewels of leagues do. Wander around England asking people at random to coach for them until they find one drunk enough to accept. LA is an embarrassment absolutely 100% of the time.
















http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45568000/jpg/_45568637_andybridgman.jpg

[Azerban]

yeah they shoulda wandered around ITERLY

/giambac

[Dirk Diggler]

Is this a joke?

[Mikey]

LOL!
Dumbass thinks he's going to be coaching Beckham. :D

[2freedom]

Haha, wow what a joke.

[Stryker]

This has to be some sort of joke.

[sully]

this is a joke..,yeah?

[ExiledRed]

LA should be thanked.

That's one less pig on the streets of Surrey.

[Calvin]

hahaha. No hes legit. Hes a qualified football association coach.

[Marc"2L"]

So really it's an amateur coach trying to go pro.
I know nothing about him.
Hope it pans out for the dude.

[mlsintoronto]

Maybe it should read "Andy Pipkin?"

[Shakes McQueen]

So he's becoming "a coach" with Los Angeles, not THE coach.

Makes it a little less insane. But only a little.

- Scott

[UltraSuperMegaMo]

Shouldn’t LA be looking for coaches who have experience as fulltime professional coaches?

[ThunderTundra]

I'm not sure if this is real, for one there is nothing on the Galaxy website about it (I know that means nothing) But really? they hired a cop with no formal coaching experience at any level but for MAYBE some kids games, even though it's the Galaxy, no actual football organization would do something like this.

I know it is likely real, but I'm convincing myself that it's fake

[Azerban]

it's a little known fact that the bbc is much like the onion, but the satire is a little more subtle

in this case though, not a joke, at least not according to the surrey police

http://www.surrey.police.uk/media/news_item.asp?area=3&itemID=11038

also, remember, he's being a coach, not the coach

[sidvan]

security coach?