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He should swear on his daughters life that he touched it like Harry Kane did a couple of years ago.

I think he actually got awarded the goal on appeal too.
He did. Fantastic direct free kick by our very own Danish legend stolen by Chinboy who claimed it flicked against his shirt on the way into the net. Utterly shameless and I have hated the cnut ever since even though Christian wasn't even our player at the time. Of course now I hate him even more.
 

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Touched it or not, Ronaldo with his jump froze the goalkeeper who wasn't sure if Ronaldo would be able to head or not so he just stood at his line. Much more useful from Ronaldo than scoring a penalty vs Ghana, which a player is always expected to score.

He's doing okay this WC so far. Been great if we compare it to his performances for United this season.
 

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I'm not reporting it mate.
Then I don't know what to do because someone else quoted it, can I report myself ?

He did. Fantastic direct free kick by our very own Danish legend stolen by Chinboy who claimed it flicked against his shirt on the way into the net. Utterly shameless and I have hated the cnut ever since even though Christian wasn't even our player at the time. Of course now I hate him even more.
Yeah I was actually defending Ronaldo by saying that England's Lion acted far worse a couple of years ago but its maybe coming across badly.
 

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Touched it or not, Ronaldo with his jump froze the goalkeeper who wasn't sure if Ronaldo would be able to head or not so he just stood at his line. Much more useful from Ronaldo than scoring a penalty vs Ghana, which a player is always expected to score.

He's doing okay this WC so far. Been great if we compare it to his performances for United this season.
It definitely influenced the goalkeeper, I'd award an assist.

Like a dummy that lets the ball flow to a teammate who finishes.

Except unintentional obviously but unintentional touches are given as assists too occasionally.
 

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1 cm more in height and it would be his goal. Give the poor guy a break, he is already insecure about his height.
 

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I know he claimed it, but I wear safety glasses in work, sometimes I have them on my head, take them off, but my head is letting me think they are still on my head, maybe he won so many headers he thought he headed it :):)
 

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The only thing he's the 'GOAT' of is self promotion and marketing hype.
 

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Not bothered to read it all. But let me plant a flag: we do not want him at Bayern. Anyone saying we do should be flogged and denied access to the oktoberfest.
 

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Well he did play a big part in the goal though, by distracting keeper moving into wrong position upon his jumping header off Bruno’s cross.

It was similar to one of those genius thing Pele would have done back in his days, to trick the keeper with a dummy. Although by intention he probably didn’t mean to trick the keeper with dummy header, nor did Bruno mean to score directly from the cross. But the goal did happened from dummy header off the cross.

And to be fair to him, he did go straight away to hug Bruno and celebrate the goal together and then with his teammates, right after the goal was scored, instead of doing a SIU or prayer thing to claim it himself.
 

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Shouldn't Ronaldo also get at least a fraction of Portugal's 2nd goal yesterday? They scored a penalty (after he'd been subbed out by his disrespectful manager, such disrespect), he's their usual penalty taker so it doesn't seem right that people should hate on the best player to ever play the game by taking away a goal from him that is rightfully his.
 

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To be fair to him, he probably did feel it brush his hair so a striker will always claim that, if he had Afro there’d be no question it’s his goal
 

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Well he did play a big part in the goal though, by distracting keeper moving into wrong position upon his jumping header off Bruno’s cross.

It was similar to one of those genius thing Pele would have done back in his days, to trick the keeper with a dummy. Although by intention he probably didn’t mean to trick the keeper with dummy header, nor did Bruno mean to score directly from the cross. But the goal did happened from dummy header off the cross.

And to be fair to him, he did go straight away to hug Bruno and celebrate the goal together and then with his teammates, right after the goal was scored, instead of doing a SIU or prayer thing to claim it himself.
:lol: fecksake he was unable to reach a cross
 

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Well he did play a big part in the goal though, by distracting keeper moving into wrong position upon his jumping header off Bruno’s cross.

It was similar to one of those genius thing Pele would have done back in his days, to trick the keeper with a dummy. Although by intention he probably didn’t mean to trick the keeper with dummy header, nor did Bruno mean to score directly from the cross. But the goal did happened from dummy header off the cross.

And to be fair to him, he did go straight away to hug Bruno and celebrate the goal together and then with his teammates, right after the goal was scored, instead of doing a SIU or prayer thing to claim it himself.
I'm not sure if this is parody or not?
 

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To be fair to him, he probably did feel it brush his hair so a striker will always claim that, if he had Afro there’d be no question it’s his goal
He should have used the hand of god like the famous cheating midget.
 

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to be fair it's right up there with the classic world cup moments

Pele's dummy
the hand of god
did it cross the line
did it brush Ronaldo's barnet
 

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:lol: fecksake he was unable to reach a cross
It's his goal. There is no way that Bruno can bend it like that. Ronaldo have an almighty breath to turn it into the goal. Without that it would have sailed out for a throw in at the far side.