'My joy over Brooklyn's birth' - Beckham

David Beckham has revealed his joy at becoming a father and the magical moment he held his new-born son Brooklyn.

The England captain and multi-millionaire former Manchester United star said the birth of his son with wife Victoria eclipsed anything he ever felt in football.

“I laid his head on the pillow next to hers: the two most precious people in the whole world, looking so much alike and so beautiful, too. That picture will be in my mind’s eye forever.”

Beckham’s autobiography, David Beckham: My Side, is being serialised in The Sun this week.

Four months after Brooklyn was born on March 4, 1999 at the private Portland Hospital in central London, he took Victoria Adams as his bride.

The couple’s second son, Romeo, had his first birthday yesterday.

Beckham, 28, revealed: “I’ve experienced it twice now, and nothing in my life, on a football pitch or anywhere else, comes close to the intensity of that moment: the thrill and the awe, holding your son in your arms for the very first time.”

And the former Old Trafford legend revealed that the night he became a father he slept on the floor of the hospital room with Victoria recovering in bed and the baby in the cot.

“There wasn’t another bed in the room…I slept on the floor with a towel for a cushion and my head pressed up against the door…All I was sure of was how happy I was: just me, Victoria and Brooklyn, breathing, sleeping together in that little room.”

Beckham also tells in the book of the time he received two bullets in the post with his name scrawled on the side and a threatening note.

British police never discovered who was responsible for the incident five years ago.

The Real Madrid star claimed his former boss Alex Ferguson did not approve of his superstar wife – and would have preferred him to marry a quiet housewife.