Football video: Cristiano Ronaldo sent-off for silly handball against Manchester City
Posted By Rob Parker on November 30, 2008
C-Ron drops a clanger
What was he thinking? It is not like he handled the ball to gain a goalscoring advantage - he just patted it down. Was he protecting his pretty face? Whatever his reasons, it was a completely idiotic way to pick up a second yellow card.
It seems Manchester City are not his favourite opposition. The Portuguese winger was also sent-off in the Manchester derby in January 2006. On that occasion he was given a straight red for a lunge on Andy Cole.
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I am about as far as you can get from a Ronaldo fan but it looks like for whatever reason he didn’t track the ball and he put up his hand to protect his face. I don’t see what sort of advantage he could have taken, so maybe the sending off is harsh.
He clearly misjudged that jump and put his hands up to prevent the ball from smacking him straight in the snout. A real SOFT-C**K move to pull in a great derby
Ronaldo handled the ball to deliberately get sent off, frustrate Ferguson and engineer his departure to Real Madrid.
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Jason is an idiot as is Al, he put his hand up ‘cuz he heard a whistle which he thought was the refs, sound analysis found out that there was one, look at his position, he could’ve easily headed it in, the ref was a complete idiot and if City weren’t shite it could’ve cost us.
Mic is a complete idiot, the “us” at the end proved it all. You wouldn’t recognize a joke if it was dancing naked under your nose, would you? I believe that was the intent and purpose of jason’s comment.