Becks for the big screen?

David Beckham is being wooed to appear in a football movie which will be shot in Spain next year.

His recent nefarious behaviour off the field has, if nothing else, stripped him of a certain blandness - and made him a tad more interesting to motion picture producers.

Executives behind a film trilogy called Goal! want him to appear as himself in the second film in the series, which will be set at the Real Madrid soccer club.

The films follow the adventures of a 'fish out of water', played by Diego Luna (who appeared in the celebrated Mexican film Y Tu Mama Tambien), who goes from Los Angeles to play for Newcastle, then to Real Madrid - and on to the European championship.

Luna will appear in all three pictures, but Beckham is needed for the second film, and possibly the third. If he agrees to make the movie, it won't come out till the end of next year, by which time we won't, I hope, still be sick to death of the constant coverage of his alleged sexual shenanigans.

Having said that, though, I admit that the most fun I've had this week has been handing out badges which read 'I Slept With David' and the gramatically incorrect 'Bored Of The Beckhams'. (If you want your own badges then go to www.boredofthebeckhams.com)

Alan Shearer and James Nesbitt will also appear in the first film, for director Michael Winterbottom.