The Run of Play is a blog about
the wonder and terror of soccer.

We left the window open during a match in October 2007 and a strange wind blew into the room.

Now we walk the forgotten byways of football with a lonely tread, searching for the beautiful, the bewildering, the haunting, and the absurd.

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David Beckham’s Endorsement Income Is Shrinking

Via Bloomberg: David Beckham’s endorsement income fell 6.6 percent in 2007, the year he joined the LA Galaxy. Payments to Beckham from his company, Footwork Productions Ltd., dropped like a glorious free kick, 49 percent from the previous year, and revenue fell for a third straight year, to £10.4 million.

I don’t know, maybe he’s not saving football.