Things are looking up for David Beckham. The male half of Posh & Becks took the field for LA Galaxy last night and scored his first goal for the franchise, which led to a 2-0 victory over DC United and earned a rare smile from his lady love. (Okay, I was lying about that last bit. Of course Posh didn’t smile. Let’s not get preposterous, people.)

Fans who want to make an appropriate offering of thanks to the soccer gods might want to consider making a quick trip to the Wat Pariwas shrine in Bangkok, where Beckham has been something of a demigod since the construction of the new shrine in 1998, a World Cup year. The title that year went to France, but sculptor Thongruang Haemhod, for inscrutable Buddhist reasons of his own, decided to commemorate the event by casting Mr. Beckham in the role of a garuda, or guardian demon, supporting the main altar. The idea of Becks as even a minor deity is quirky enough that it might even prompt Posh to smile, which would qualify as a miracle in anyone’s book.

(Via ONTD.)