At the age of three, David Beckham's parents gave him a Manchester United shirt as a Christmas present, beginning a relationship with the club that was to last a quarter of a century. From relatively early days, right up to his departure for Real Madrid, the Manchester photographers Eamonn and James Clarke recorded his unofficial' story - even before he came to prominence as a player and well before his meteoric rise to iconic status. This extraordinary book charts that rise to stardom from its genesis.'
