Box seat at the Champions League final? That'll be £4,000...



Club Wembley boxholders have been quoted an astonishing £4,000 per person to use the facilities for the Champions League final.



Tournament organisers UEFA, who are looking to cash in to an extraordinary extent from having the final at Wembley, can charge what they want as their showcase game is not included in the contracted season-ticket schedule for the 163 box holders.



And greedy UEFA are also pricing individual seats at over three figures. The excessive corporate hospitality prices work out at £80,000 for a 20-seat box.



Room with a view: Tickets for the prestigious boxes at Wembley will cost a small fortune

That means it is around the same price for entertaining guests to one night of football as Club Wembley patrons paid for their 10-year ownership licence for a box.



UEFA, who are launching their ticketing process for the Wembley final on May 28 at the City Hall today, are charging as much as they can for seats at the big match.



The price of the tickets being released is expected to range from £150 to £300, which will contribute to making the Champions League climax the most expensive football match ever staged. It will also produce the most revenue.



David Beckham and his 19 management advisors, led by Simon Fuller, have begun exploring possible locations for the Major League Soccer franchise that Becks has an option to buy at a reduced price at the end of his LA Galaxy playing contract in December.



Beckham and Fuller are looking at the potential of establishing a team in Miami, San Diego, Atlanta or Montreal.



The plan does mean Beckham won't get involved with the New York Cosmos being run by his former personal manager and close friend Terry Byrne.



There are major doubts as to whether Formula One ringmaster Bernie Ecclestone will attend the champagne reception next week at listed Mayfair mansion Dartmouth House to launch the unofficial biography about him - No Angel - written by Tom Bower.



Ecclestone, who gave investigative author Bower unexpected access and hospitality during his research, had been expected to make an appearance at the party.



But it is understood Bernie's daughters were upset their parents relationship was written about and formed the central topic of the first newspaper serialisation.



England's footballers, who have donated over £1million of match fees to good causes since 2007, have chosen new charities to support - Help for Heroes and Cancer Research UK.



The team are putting their charity work on a more official footing by changing the name and branding to the England Footballers Foundation.



Beeb is just the ticket



The BBC are desperate to demonstrate, 18 months in advance of the 2012 Olympics, that there will be no largesse at licence fee payers expense during the Games.



They have already sent out an email telling all staff there will no freebie tickets available for employees at any level and that anyone who wants to be there will have to go through the LOCOG process.



The Beeb can buy a small amount of tickets as host broadcaster, but get no complimentaries with their rights deal. However, expect well over 500 BBC personnel to have official accreditation for the event.



Piece of the action: BBC employees will have to pay for their Olympics tickets

Ipswich owner Marcus Evans has had his appointment as an official ticket reseller for the Irish National Olympic Committee approved by the IOC and London 2012.



This is despite Evans - described as the biggest ticket tout in the world - having already promoted six-figure, pirate hospitality offerings for the Games that make no mention of tickets.



The London view is that they want Evans in their official tent where he must abide by the rules.



Bookmakers Betfair, who have stood by their star football tipster Andy Gray after his departure from Sky Sports due to the sexist controversy, haven't shown any leniency with payments manager Terry Clarke following the uncovering of financial wrongdoing.

