Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the most hated, respected, ridiculed and loved football stars today. He is a true icon – splitting public opinion right down the middle. A Portuguese national and a Manchester United star, the right-winger had a career-changing 2006/2007 season, when he came in off an excellent World Cup performance (although people only remembered the diving and the Rooney incident) and led Manchester United to their first Premiership title in four years.
He’s a good player, that boy Ronaldo.
All we’ve been reading about these past few weeks is Messi this, Ronaldo that. The seemingly never ending debate on which player is the best has granted, been a whole load of fun, yet for me it’s also been tiresome in equal measure.
There...
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Written by Adrian Clarke. 65 comments
Last summer I was bored of all the Ronaldo moving to Real Madrid stuff pretty quickly, it carried on through right up until the transfer deadline and I’m fairly sure everyone was thinking ‘just go already’.
When Florentino Perez started...
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Written by Betfair. 2 comments
For nine minutes, I was smug and self-satisfied, as well as disappointed. My pre-match predictions were being played out in front of my eyes; the men in all-white were on top, and the Catalans were struggling to adapt to the intensity of their play.
Victor...
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Written by Neil Jones. 7 comments
Obviously, we know that Sir Alex Ferguson has won many trophies, coached a lot of great players, and accomplished a lot of extraordinary things during his time at Manchester United. His critics (namely Rafa Benitez) might point to the amount of money...
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Written by Victor Li. 20 comments
Follow Manchester United v Barcelona live on Soccerlens!
The stage is set for one truly wonderful team to ascend...
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Written by Anish Bharadwaj. 2 comments
For an hour the dreamers had begun to dream. Households across Merseyside & Greater Manchester had seen its occupants edge ever closer to the television, whilst inside the JJB the travelling contingent of Manchester United supporters waited. And...
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Written by Neil Jones. 6 comments
On episode nine of the Soccerlens Podcast, Stephen Darwin is joined by FourFourTwo’s man in Madrid, Tim Stannard, to talk about Spanish football and La Liga.
The show will be...
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Written by Stephen Darwin. 4 comments
Crisitiano Ronaldo scored a scorcher against Porto last night en route to Manchester United’s fifth (or sixth) consecutive away clean sheet in Europe, the first English win in Porto and defeating statistics by winning a game they only had a 16%...
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Written by Soccerlens. 15 comments
The short list has been announced today for the PFA Player and Young Player of the year awards. Unsurprisingly both Steven Gerrard and Cristiano Ronaldo are there and the Portuguese winger is joined by four of his United team mates.
Rio Ferdinand,...
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Written by Ben King. 18 comments
Cristiano Ronaldo is without doubt the man that everyone in football loves to hate. Whether it’s an element of jealousy, his arrogance, his transfer conduct, the infamous ‘getting Rooney sent off’ saga, his manner and expression,...
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Written by Andy Jackson. 65 comments
