As long as you can walk, perhaps even with a limp, and have played football at the highest
level, it seems a medical at Manchester United is a breeze.
Owen Hargreaves spoke in depth about his rehabilitation after surgery on both knees and gave an
insight into how United's medical team assess the fitness of a player.
A feeling I'm sure my old mother was subjected to when watching me pick up a fifty-meter
swimming badge back in primary school- looking on fondly as one of her own dropped, sans
grace, into a vat of partially diluted chlorine, swallowing an unhealthy dose of it, before
emerging, half-drowned at the other end like a dog being rescued from a river- I was awash with a
certain amount pride this week after discovering that esteemed members of our own stock,
Luka Modric and Wilson Palacios, had earned themselves a place on FourFourTwo's, frankly
excellent, ‘100 Best Players in the World' list 2009.
