Football

Not (entirely) a tax fiddle.

France and its mainland european allies is still a relatively untapped market for brand beckham so the greedy branding machine is going all out for the french advertising euro while he still can.

St David of Beckham has put himself outside the realms of human criticism by donating his salary to charity. Who dare criticise such a selfless and generous person? He is certainly not your average greedy footballer out to make as much money as he can, exhibit a, he does not keep his salary.

Brand Beckham is now your perfect brand ambassador and european companies will collectively pay many multiples of the foregone salary to jump on bandwagon beckham as a result. Kaching £€$.

Remember that global image rights are paid to the image holding company in an offshore account, should any be found taxable under french law then this can probably be offset by the charitable donation so don't even bother going after the soon to be cannonised one. Keep your greasy badly washed french paws off St David and do not dare to criticise him.

i wonder if that charity will put him up in a very nice apartment in paris
i wonder if that charity will pay for all his meals at posh resteraunts
i wonder if that charity will hire him a bentley to drive around paris in
i wonder if that charity will pay for expensive parties for his kids birthdays
i wonder if net net that charity will make any money out of beckhams salary at all

etc etc .....