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.
There’s been this misconception amongst football fans in England that Cristiano Ronaldo ‘got Wayne Rooney sent off’ at the last World Cup.
Whilst I’ll take Rooney’s word for it, that it was his lack of balance...
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Written by Scott the Red. 38 comments
Every team has at least one player who dives, or at least goes to ground too easily. They’re the player who has you cringing when the slow motion replay comes up on the screen and you see that whilst your man is on the ground, writhing in pain,...
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Fresh from the great minds of Gazzetta dello Sport, here is a look at ALL THE PLAYERS from UEFA Champion’s...
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After 3.3 million votes cast by 256,000 online users (slightly less than last year), the uefa.com Team of the Year 2008...
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Written by Marco Pantanella. 29 comments
The FIFA World Player and FIFA Women’s World Player awards were announced in Zurich last night. Cristiano Ronaldo added the 2008 FIFA World Player of the Year award to go with his Ballon D’Or and FIFPro awards, make a clean sweep of all...
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Working here on the assumption that to most readers these will be the most familiar goals, I’ll bow to your prior comprehension and suggest that if you’ve already seen and made your own judgments of these, you might want to skip over this...
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Whilst writing for my United-focused blog, I have come under some criticism for my rather harsh appraisals of Cristiano Ronaldo. I don’t need to get down to the ins and outs of last season and the...
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It’s that time of the year again. With the days fast approaching December 31, awards for the “Best XI” of 2008 are being handed left and right. Even Soccerlens jumped on the bandwagon (see our “Soccerlens...
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With the Euros behind us, July would start the transfer season and with it all the mindless speculation along with the few sensational transfers here and there.
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June kicked off with a bang, literally – Jose Mourinho signed on as Inter Milan manager and Ronaldo, fresh from doing the league and european double with Manchester United,
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