Uncomfortable scenes as Cristiano Ronaldo dressed for his meeting with the ‘hottest boyband in the world today’ without realising they were not Wham.
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Monthly Archives: May 2013
Christopher Columbus: Showing His True Colours
Columbus in a Barca shirt? Strictly speaking, he would be a Genoa fan, surely?
Sir Alex Ferguson: Football’s Favourite Sun
Image: Alex Livesey/Getty Images Europe.
Anyone would think he’d died.
The wailing and gnashing of teeth across the networks, the United fans choking back tears as they described how their lives will never be the same again, the jostling across Twitter as journalists, bloggers, former players scrambled to get their angle on the matter out there.
Champions League Chuntering: There’s Always Next Year…
Robert Lewandowski learned what it was like to have the personal attention of Real Madrid’s record red card earner last night. Image: DANI POZO/AFP/Getty Images.
In the end, of course, it all came down to Sergio Ramos. Jose Mourinho’s musing on the fact that Robert Lewandowski scored four goals in the first leg and yet was not fouled once was obviously taken to heart by the Real Madrid central defender, whose constant clattering, elbowing and bullying of the Polish international was sufficient for him to lose his composure in front of goal.
It’s a testament to Lewandowski’s focus and professionalism that he accepted the majority of the attention without complaint, despite ample opportunity to bitch to referee Howard Webb, and, amid rumours of his departure, it’s difficult not to feel like the Champions League trophy is his idea of a perfect parting gift to the club that gave him his breakthrough.
Dortmund’s necessarily stoic, functional performance last night in the Bernabeu makes it hard to argue.
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