Wouldn't you like to see David Wells or Roger Clemens have to go through something like this??
DAVID Beckham's three-hour medical at Real Madrid on July 1 is expected to be televised live to a world-wide paying audience.
Subscribers to the Spanish club's television station will be joined by a global viewers as broadcasting rights go under the hammer across the world. Following the huge success of the pilot screening of Ronaldo's medical last summer, TV executives at Madrid are confident there will be massive interest in seeing Beckham put through his paces by the club's medical staff.
The bizarre sight of the most famous footballer on the planet stripping down to his boxer shorts will make for compelling viewing. A senior executive at Madrid said: "Viewers were gripped by Ronaldo's medical. It was a complete first and was a massive success. But judging by the hysteria surrounding Beckham, demands to see his medical will be far greater."....
A measure of Beckham's popularity is that Madrid have already received more than two million inquiries for shirts with his name and number on the back. That's twice as many as the record, held by Brazilian striker Ronaldo who sold one million shirts when he was unveiled last season.
Silly me; I'd thought the slave trade died with the end of the Civil War....
