David Beckham: My Side By David Beckham
David Beckham: My Side
The Uncompromised, High-Stakes Inside Story of Old Trafford Intrigues, Global Paparazzi Siege, and the Mask of an International Icon
The Uncompromised, High-Stakes Inside Story of Old Trafford Intrigues, Global Paparazzi Siege, and the Mask of an International Icon
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: David Beckham: My Side
- Author: David Beckham (with Tom Watt)
- Publisher: Collins Willow (An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers), London
- Publication Date: 12 September 2003
- ISBN-10: 0007157320
- ISBN-13: 9780007157327
- Edition Details: First UK Hardcover Edition, First Printing.
- Binding: Original publisher’s premium cloth-bound hardcover casing with gold-stamped spine lettering.
- Physical Format: Large Octavo (8vo), 384 pages. Generously enhanced with an extraordinary central repository of full-colour match action plates, intimate family archival snapshots, and private backstage fashion portraits.
- Language: English
Official Condition Report
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The Book: Used - Very Good Plus (VG+)
- Exterior / Boards: The original hardcover binding presents in an exceptional, collector-grade preservation state. The cloth boards remain flat, clean, and defensively square at all corner tips. The binding is completely unyielding, showing no vertical spine-lean, internal structural collapse, or core structural degradation under the text block.
- Interior: The internal text block is tight, crisp, and robustly bound. All 384 pages are clean, intact, and free of traditional user highlighting, underline annotations, or library stamps. A discrete, neat vintage date notation is present on the upper corner of the first preliminary page. Natural, uniform page tanning/browning is present across the internal leaf edges, completely typical for the specific paper stock utilized by British trade publishers during the early 2000s. This book has clearly been well-maintained and looked after thus far.
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The Dust Jacket: Used - Very Good Plus (VG+)
- Condition Detail: The original illustrated paper dust jacket is present, whole, and completely intact under a protective Cellophane cover. The jacket faces show only some very limited signs of standard vintage shelf wear along the topmost margins, keeping its striking typographic layout and portrait contrast bright and highly presentable.
Synopsis & Historical Value
Published in 2003—released right as his earth-shattering transfer to Real Madrid transformed him into the planet's ultimate sporting megastar—My Side stands as the definitive, first-person exposure of a global cultural phenomenon. Bypassing endless newspaper column inches and tabloid distortion, David Beckham delivers an immediate, raw window into his life entirely in his own words.
Written alongside veteran chronicler Tom Watt, Beckham strips away the glitz of celebrity to reveal the immense psychological steel required to conquer world football. The narrative provides an exhaustive, point-by-point account of his complex, high-stakes relationship with Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson, and details how he handled the intense pressure of playing alongside volatile legends like Eric Cantona, Peter Schmeichel, and Roy Keane. Beckham tracks his dramatic international arc—from being vilified by the entire British nation after the 1998 World Cup to returning as the prodigal captain who single-handedly fired England to the 2002 Finals. From his high-profile marriage to ex-Spice Girl Victoria Adams to the claustrophobic reality of raising their children under a permanent siege by paparazzi newshounds, this premium first-edition hardcover collectible copy acts as an indispensable primary historical archive capturing a sporting titan right at his career zenith.
Author Profile: David Beckham & Tom Watt
David Beckham OBE is an English football legend, a former captain of the England national team, a member of the English Football Hall of Fame, and one of the most recognizable cultural icons in modern history. Renowned globally for his lethal, bending free-kicks, extraordinary passing vision from the right wing, and a rock-star aesthetic that permanently altered global fashion and sports marketing, his illustrious playing career spanned elite giants including Manchester United, Real Madrid, LA Galaxy, AC Milan, and Paris Saint-Germain, securing 19 major trophies across four distinct countries.
Tom Watt is an exceptionally distinguished British author, sports journalist, actor, and veteran broadcaster. Celebrated globally for his unique ability to capture the authentic, raw voices of elite athletes, Watt has authored numerous critically acclaimed bestsellers and sports histories. His expert literary partnership ensures that Beckham's raw verbal accounts are transformed into a highly polished, authoritative historical record that remains highly prized by sports historians and antiquarian book collectors worldwide.
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