Trouble brewing in Posh paradise?

As you might expect, after getting tossed from the England-Argentina draw -- losing the game then-and-there in the minds of many -- David Beckham didn't go home.

Instead, he hightailed it to New York to join fiancee Victoria Adams (a.k.a. Posh Spice) on the Big Apple leg of the Spice Girls' ballyhooed tour.

There they were seen walking around downtown "with bummed-out looks on their faces" according to one spy. "Posh was crying, but no one knows why."

Trouble in paradise? Who knows, but we're betting Beckham follows his Victoria around to Montreal on Friday and Toronto Saturday. What else is he going to do -- go back to England, where he's about as popular as a visit to the dentist?

GEORGE 'N' GINGER: Meanwhile, what of Geri Halliwell, a.k.a. Ginger Spice, who bolted the group prior to the tour?

Reportedly, she was hanging out last week with friends her own age (in the wake of a report last week that Geri is actually 35 rather than 25). The New York Post reports she was George Michael's date in London last week at a costume party for his 35th birthday.

George, who was arrested for doing something or other in a washroom a while back, and Geri have kind of found each other recently. She fled to his digs in St. Tropez to escape the press after announcing her decision to quit the Spices.

The loss of Ginger, meanwhile, was given as the reason that the Spice Girls weren't included in International Who's Who this week. "Personally I am an admirer of theirs," said Who's Who editor Richard Fitzwilliams, "but they have had a bit of trouble with the departure of Geri, and it is simply the policy of International Who's Who that you've got to have staying power." Girl power, it seems, just isn't enough.