Is Beckham worth it, $250 million over the next five years? Did Madrid get their money’s worth? Wasn’t be sitting on the bench there quite a bit?

This just confirms that football makes people behave in crazy ways, I’ve seen it from the touchline so many times. Becks isn’t even a star over in LA. When people there were interviewed on last night’s news, many of them said they had never heard of him.

He will be earning £70,000 a day as LA Galaxy’s “designated player”. I don’t even want to begin to imagine what good deeds could benefit from some of that dosh. What can one person do with so much money?  There are only so many designer frocks Victoria can fritter it away on with their new Hollywood lifestyle.

I don’t believe it is obscene to earn such a vast salary, but it is obscene to waste it. I would like to see Becks follow in Oprah’s footsteps. Earlier this month she opened a $40 million school in South Africa for disadvantaged girls which she had funded.

Football is an international language, kids love it all over the world. I would like to see Beckham extend his UK Academy (which incidentally also has a base in LA) to equally deprived areas around the world on a not-for-profit or scholarship basis. It could well help discover many world class players who would never otherwise have been given the chance. It would make a dream come true for thousands of star-struck Beckham fans who just kick a ball about in the street and don’t have the same opportunities as others.

Btw, does anyone know what has happened to Sven, has he found a new job?