Beckham: Commercial issues did not affect form

England captain David Beckham has rubbished reports that off-field controversies affected his form at Euro2004.

"People might think they do, but commercial issues do not affect my football."

"I don't do as much as people think, I probably do one or two things a month and that's it."

The England captain added: "Situations always affect you. To have pressure day in day out, whether it is good or bad, it comes to a point where you have to say enough is enough."

"But commercial issues do not affect my football. People might think they do, but no."

"Yes, there are adverts out there and photographs of me but people sometimes stick pictures of me on magazines week in and week out and say 'exclusive' and people think I've done an exclusive."

"I've come to terms with that's the way my life is and I will overcome this."

"But my family are number one, my football is number two and that's the way it will always be."

Beckham has had to survive allegations about his personal life in the run up to the tournament.

But he said: "Unfortunately that is my life. It's full of four and five cars following me every day everywhere I go, to the park with my children."

"But when I'm on that football pitch nothing comes into that scene."

"The intrusion and the invasion into my life is tough because I've got children and I want them to enjoy their lives but people will just say 'why's he complaining?'."

"I'm not complaining but of course it's tough. It's tough on any family."

"I think it's reached an intolerable level a few times this year because the move to Spain is a new environment, people are not used to me there."

"In Manchester I was able to go to the Trafford Centre and walk around with my family."

"That's not possible in Spain. I can't go out of my front door and people know that."