There are unusual friendships, and then there’s this.
We were all surprised to see Liverpool’s Adam Lallana at Wimbledon with Game of Thrones star Kit Harington, but now we can top that in the odd couple stakes.
Sri Lanka cricket captain Mahela Jayawardena is a big Manchester United fan, as anyone who follows him on Twitter will already be aware.
But none of us expected the 38-year-old to be best buds with David Beckham’s dad Ted.
With Beckham Senior on the way to Southampton to watch @ManUtd 👍🏻👊🏻 #mufc #mufcfanpics 😄 pic.twitter.com/lPxtg3uQG8
— Mahela Jayawardena (@MahelaJay) September 20, 2015
Unsurprisingly, a few Twitter users were dumbfounded at seeing the pair together.
Beckham's old man and Jayawardena… Seems like a random twosome.
— MUFCFans (@MUFCFans) September 20, 2015
Mahela Jayawardena and David Beckham's dad are boys how wonderfully random
— M (@GunmanMartial) September 20, 2015
