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		<title>By: spencer</title>
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		<dc:creator>spencer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 12:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Ronaldo was a sly, cheating disgrace. &quot; 
 
RE: BD Condell. Personally, I disagree. He did nothing wrong that world cup. the media were just looking for someone to blame for englands defeat. I guess the only people who saw it like you do were the ones who put england about united. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&quot;Ronaldo was a sly, cheating disgrace. &quot; </p>
<p>RE: BD Condell. Personally, I disagree. He did nothing wrong that world cup. the media were just looking for someone to blame for englands defeat. I guess the only people who saw it like you do were the ones who put england about united. </p>
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		<title>By: Yolkie</title>
		<link>http://soccerlens.com/ronaldo-versus-the-stretford-end/14123/#comment-104772</link>
		<dc:creator>Yolkie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Had no problem with what he wanted in the summer, his reasons seemed pretty decent, shame it took him until about 3 weeks before the window closed to display such honesty instead of behaving like some pathetic pr*cktease.

&quot;I&#039;ll give my heart and soul in a United shirt&quot;, or words to that affect, he said. Yes, he has to work to win over the fans, and yes, there are a few who blindly stand by him because they&#039;re either too young or too naive to think United can exist without him.

What I can&#039;t abide is when he has a poor game, like he did against Celtic, gets applauded by a large section of the crowd, and doesn&#039;t applaud them back. It&#039;s a small gesture, and he constantly refuses to make them.

To the guy who wrote &quot;grow up and get behind him&quot;, well, we will, when he grows up and starts showing us why we should.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Had no problem with what he wanted in the summer, his reasons seemed pretty decent, shame it took him until about 3 weeks before the window closed to display such honesty instead of behaving like some pathetic pr*cktease.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll give my heart and soul in a United shirt&#8221;, or words to that affect, he said. Yes, he has to work to win over the fans, and yes, there are a few who blindly stand by him because they&#8217;re either too young or too naive to think United can exist without him.</p>
<p>What I can&#8217;t abide is when he has a poor game, like he did against Celtic, gets applauded by a large section of the crowd, and doesn&#8217;t applaud them back. It&#8217;s a small gesture, and he constantly refuses to make them.</p>
<p>To the guy who wrote &#8220;grow up and get behind him&#8221;, well, we will, when he grows up and starts showing us why we should.</p>
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		<title>By: Juna</title>
		<link>http://soccerlens.com/ronaldo-versus-the-stretford-end/14123/#comment-104642</link>
		<dc:creator>Juna</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I couldn&#039;t agree more, penguin. 

I was not happy about him wanting to move to Real but if it&#039;s his childhood dream then it is his childhood dream. The thign that really mad me a bit mad was the way he went about it, especially the fact that he would not give a clear statement and managed to make it the main topic during the Euros. I have to say though - I&#039;m still not sure if most of it wasn&#039;t just the newspapers being creative in their &#039;quotes&#039;.

Anyway, he decided to stay, he apologized and everybody with eyes in their head should be able to see that he&#039;s giving his all. Despite not being fully fit, despite being obviously frustrated about it, he runs up and down that pitch, actually tracks back like a devil. A red devil. 

So yes. Please lets support him, make him feel welcome again  so that in turn, he&#039;ll give us a lot of season like last years. Or even better. Viva Ronaldo!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I couldn&#8217;t agree more, penguin. </p>
<p>I was not happy about him wanting to move to Real but if it&#8217;s his childhood dream then it is his childhood dream. The thign that really mad me a bit mad was the way he went about it, especially the fact that he would not give a clear statement and managed to make it the main topic during the Euros. I have to say though &#8211; I&#8217;m still not sure if most of it wasn&#8217;t just the newspapers being creative in their &#8216;quotes&#8217;.</p>
<p>Anyway, he decided to stay, he apologized and everybody with eyes in their head should be able to see that he&#8217;s giving his all. Despite not being fully fit, despite being obviously frustrated about it, he runs up and down that pitch, actually tracks back like a devil. A red devil. </p>
<p>So yes. Please lets support him, make him feel welcome again  so that in turn, he&#8217;ll give us a lot of season like last years. Or even better. Viva Ronaldo!!</p>
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		<title>By: Sajal</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sajal</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Fans should give Ronaldo a second chance. He is from Portugal and hence very understandable that he wants to play for Madrid, just like a British player would dream of Celtic or Liverpool or an Italian will dream of Juve.

There were times last season also when he did not celebrate after scoring goals, especially onces he did not consider too difficult.  He has very high standards for himself.  Once he scores a scorcher like the free-kick against Pompey or the flick against Villa, we will see him smiling again.

We should be supportive of him and he will become a United Legend</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fans should give Ronaldo a second chance. He is from Portugal and hence very understandable that he wants to play for Madrid, just like a British player would dream of Celtic or Liverpool or an Italian will dream of Juve.</p>
<p>There were times last season also when he did not celebrate after scoring goals, especially onces he did not consider too difficult.  He has very high standards for himself.  Once he scores a scorcher like the free-kick against Pompey or the flick against Villa, we will see him smiling again.</p>
<p>We should be supportive of him and he will become a United Legend</p>
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		<title>By: BD Condell</title>
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		<dc:creator>BD Condell</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Spencer: &quot;However, the article is proving to be right. You agree about Rooney&#039;s antics but say it doesn&#039;t matter because he is â€˜United through and through&#039;&quot;

Firstly, articles are not rifgt or wrong, they are an expression of opinion. Secondly, I am agreeing about some of Rooneys behaviour but is irrelevant to the Ronaldo debate. Arrogance, vanity, conceipt are what Ronaldo displays with his antics. Tryiung to compare him to Rooney is nonsense.

As for:  &quot;Rooney&#039;s antics are just as bad as Ronaldo&#039;s, just in a different way and thats a fact.&quot;

No, that&#039;s an opinion and just because you hold it does not make it a fact.

Regarding the WOrld Cup, Beckham was a scapegoat. Ronaldo was a sly, cheating disgrace.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Spencer: &#8220;However, the article is proving to be right. You agree about Rooney&#8217;s antics but say it doesn&#8217;t matter because he is â€˜United through and through&#8217;&#8221;</p>
<p>Firstly, articles are not rifgt or wrong, they are an expression of opinion. Secondly, I am agreeing about some of Rooneys behaviour but is irrelevant to the Ronaldo debate. Arrogance, vanity, conceipt are what Ronaldo displays with his antics. Tryiung to compare him to Rooney is nonsense.</p>
<p>As for:  &#8220;Rooney&#8217;s antics are just as bad as Ronaldo&#8217;s, just in a different way and thats a fact.&#8221;</p>
<p>No, that&#8217;s an opinion and just because you hold it does not make it a fact.</p>
<p>Regarding the WOrld Cup, Beckham was a scapegoat. Ronaldo was a sly, cheating disgrace.</p>
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		<title>By: Madschester United</title>
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		<dc:creator>Madschester United</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Viva Ronaldo... running down the wing, hear United sing... Viva Ronaldo!

Let it go... he did not &quot;cheat&quot; on us. We need to get him to perform again by supporting him.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Viva Ronaldo&#8230; running down the wing, hear United sing&#8230; Viva Ronaldo!</p>
<p>Let it go&#8230; he did not &#8220;cheat&#8221; on us. We need to get him to perform again by supporting him.</p>
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		<title>By: DarkDevil</title>
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		<dc:creator>DarkDevil</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I was as sick of the Ronaldo saga as everyone else and my main grievance with the player was his lack of coming forward and saying straight out what he wanted to do instead of letting the press make us feel like a bunch of tossers for supporting him all this time.

However, I&#039;m a believer in second chances and after his apology I&#039;ve let sleeping dogs lie.  I know that he will eventually join Real Madrid.  I don&#039;t know if it&#039;ll be next season or later.  What I do know is that the man is playing to the best of his abilities at the moment and we shouldn&#039;t be supporting him just for the sake of it.  As far as I&#039;m concerned the fact he is still wearing a red shirt means he deserves as much support as any other player on the field.  If he leaves us next season, so be it but we (United fans) will be able to at least say that we supported him fully.  I&#039;d rather be the loving father than the abusive controlling one!

It&#039;s natural for players from that part of Europe to want to play in Spain.  Even Fergie admitted this.  Ronaldo grew up a Real Madrid fan, not a United fan and you can&#039;t criticize him for that and you also can&#039;t criticize him for wanting to eventually play for his favorite side.  If we were all footballers we&#039;d all want to play for our boyhood teams someday.  Even Scholesy want&#039;s to eventually play for Oldham and Keano wanted to end his career at Celtic because that was his boyhood team!

My message to United fans is to grow up and get behind the the player.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was as sick of the Ronaldo saga as everyone else and my main grievance with the player was his lack of coming forward and saying straight out what he wanted to do instead of letting the press make us feel like a bunch of tossers for supporting him all this time.</p>
<p>However, I&#8217;m a believer in second chances and after his apology I&#8217;ve let sleeping dogs lie.  I know that he will eventually join Real Madrid.  I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;ll be next season or later.  What I do know is that the man is playing to the best of his abilities at the moment and we shouldn&#8217;t be supporting him just for the sake of it.  As far as I&#8217;m concerned the fact he is still wearing a red shirt means he deserves as much support as any other player on the field.  If he leaves us next season, so be it but we (United fans) will be able to at least say that we supported him fully.  I&#8217;d rather be the loving father than the abusive controlling one!</p>
<p>It&#8217;s natural for players from that part of Europe to want to play in Spain.  Even Fergie admitted this.  Ronaldo grew up a Real Madrid fan, not a United fan and you can&#8217;t criticize him for that and you also can&#8217;t criticize him for wanting to eventually play for his favorite side.  If we were all footballers we&#8217;d all want to play for our boyhood teams someday.  Even Scholesy want&#8217;s to eventually play for Oldham and Keano wanted to end his career at Celtic because that was his boyhood team!</p>
<p>My message to United fans is to grow up and get behind the the player.</p>
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		<title>By: spencer</title>
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		<dc:creator>spencer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>SJC, the fans stood by Ronaldo through the world cup saga just like they did with Beckham and shall I tell you why we did? because both of them were made scapegoats for England&#039;s incompetence and it was a disgrace in both cases</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>SJC, the fans stood by Ronaldo through the world cup saga just like they did with Beckham and shall I tell you why we did? because both of them were made scapegoats for England&#8217;s incompetence and it was a disgrace in both cases</p>
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		<title>By: spencer</title>
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		<dc:creator>spencer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>BD, I agree about Keane, I just didn&#039;t like the way he went about it. However, the article is proving to be right. You agree about Rooney&#039;s antics but say it doesn&#039;t matter because he is &#039;United through and through&#039; although I disagree, he needs more time to get that status from me. Only Scholes, Gary and Giggs are IMO. If we got relagated, they would stay with the club, there would be a hugh question mark over every other player including Rooney. I remember after we lost to Benfica in 2005, he scowled in his interview and went &#039;I came here to win trophies .Why aren&#039;t I winning any.&#039; Rooney is here for the glory, not because of personal love for the club. &#039;once a blue, always a blue&#039; ring any bells. Mind you, british players tend to only want to settle in Britain and we are the biggest club in Britain so he won&#039;t want to go anywhere else in England or abroad, as he won&#039;t settle.. Rooney&#039;s antics are just as bad as Ronaldo&#039;s, just in a different way and thats a fact. I have yet to see Fergie shouting at Ronaldo over his antics on the pitch (although maybe he does in private) but he is constantly yelling at Rooney.

I have to say though Ronaldo has rceived a decent reception since he came back. Name still being sung, albeit not as much as before. Cheered when subsituted, cheered on his return, not booed etc. Could have been much worse</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>BD, I agree about Keane, I just didn&#8217;t like the way he went about it. However, the article is proving to be right. You agree about Rooney&#8217;s antics but say it doesn&#8217;t matter because he is &#8216;United through and through&#8217; although I disagree, he needs more time to get that status from me. Only Scholes, Gary and Giggs are IMO. If we got relagated, they would stay with the club, there would be a hugh question mark over every other player including Rooney. I remember after we lost to Benfica in 2005, he scowled in his interview and went &#8216;I came here to win trophies .Why aren&#8217;t I winning any.&#8217; Rooney is here for the glory, not because of personal love for the club. &#8216;once a blue, always a blue&#8217; ring any bells. Mind you, british players tend to only want to settle in Britain and we are the biggest club in Britain so he won&#8217;t want to go anywhere else in England or abroad, as he won&#8217;t settle.. Rooney&#8217;s antics are just as bad as Ronaldo&#8217;s, just in a different way and thats a fact. I have yet to see Fergie shouting at Ronaldo over his antics on the pitch (although maybe he does in private) but he is constantly yelling at Rooney.</p>
<p>I have to say though Ronaldo has rceived a decent reception since he came back. Name still being sung, albeit not as much as before. Cheered when subsituted, cheered on his return, not booed etc. Could have been much worse</p>
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		<title>By: Liverpool_Fan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Liverpool_Fan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ronaldo should be dropped and play Tevez on the right, normally i would say Rooney on the left but he has been in such good scoring form you cant play him some where else now</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ronaldo should be dropped and play Tevez on the right, normally i would say Rooney on the left but he has been in such good scoring form you cant play him some where else now</p>
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