Ronaldo To Star In Remake Of 'roots'

FOOTBALLER Cristiano Ronaldo is being lined up to star in a multi-million dollar remake of the epic TV series Roots.

Producers say the star's treatment at the hands of Manchester United make him the perfect choice to portray the young African slave who is beaten by his brutal masters.

The Portuguese winger said he had been traumatised by 'outrageous' demands that he honour the £125,000 a week, legally-binding contract, which has brought him only, misery, adulation and Gemma Atkinson.

Speaking from the titanium gazebo in the rose garden of his 31-room mansion, Ronaldo said: "I feel I can relate to the suffering of African slaves.

"If anything, it is worse, because footballers cannot sing while we work, whereas they had time to develop gospel music during their 16-hours shifts before dropping dead from exhaustion."

In the series a young African boy is dragged from his homeland and shipped to America where he is forced to work in the fields by a cruel and violent plantation owner.

"The similarities are uncanny, though admittedly, the Lear Jet that flew me from Lisbon to Manchester wasn't packed with 150 other players sleeping head-to-toe."

Ronaldo also conceded that, while the slave-master in Roots administered brutal beatings, Man Utd boss Sir Alex Ferguson had nurtured his talent, lavished him with praise and turned him into one of the best footballers in the world.

"But without the freedom to do whatever I want, wherever I want, for whatever fee I want, I am exactly the same as a cotton picker forced to live in a shed, dying at the age of 32."

He added: "I know the people will love my acting. Already, in the streets, I hear many of them calling me 'Kunta'."

 

Now I know why I dont like football !!

 

Amazing grace? That could be his signiture tune when he runs into the stadium, just for him kinda thing.

 

Can't comment.

cheers

 

He earns the same as a Banker and has almost the same title

 

elainefiz .... he's definitely Amazing Grace for me ......

I think he's ace ... sorry, guys, I'm ONLY a Portuguese football fan ... Ricardo is my second favourite, and I have him on a magnet on my fridge .... would prefer one of my darling but .....

 

I remember the series of "Roots" from many years ago... especially that moment when the father lifted up his newborn son towards the evening sky,outdoors, and told him something in the lines of :
"look up: this is the only thing bigger than you". Now, I don't follow football particularely, but they tell me that Ronaldo is quite a star...

 

:D :thumb:

 

Ronaldo who?????????? :confused: only kidding! Give me George Best as least he was human oh and I know VERY DEAD! :D:D

 

a poor excuse for one, an alcoholic wife beater who took precious organs that someone else could have had and misused them. Makes me sick.