Them Brits take their football seriously:

Our research, which used the minimum leg-muscle mass T-rex required for movement, suggests that while not incredibly fast, this carnivore was certainly capable of running and would have little difficulty in chasing down footballer David Beckham, for instance," said Phil Manning, a paleontologist at the University of Manchester...

Look, I know he ditched y'all, in his quest for fame, fortune and foxy ladies, but suggesting, even obliquely, that he should be eaten by a T-Rex seems a little bitchy.