Spend it like ... er, Chiles

Match of the Day Two's host, Adrian Chiles, managed to turn the agenda on his daytime One Show last week to one of his favourite subjects with an item about football, reports Matt Scott in the Guardian's Digger column. But rather than focus on his beloved Baggies, the topic was footballers' earnings. "Rio Ferdinand is now on something like £120,000 a week. How do you go about spending that kind of money? Our reporter goes to find out if today's players really do have more money than sense." After reportedly signing a £2m, two-year deal with the BBC, Chiles should have a rough idea how to spend it like Beckham. To put that £2m into context: it is considerably more than the average Premier League player's annual wage of £676,000.