Handbags at 9-paces: Steven Taylor & Cristiano Ronaldo’s girlie spat
Thursday, March 5th, 2009
In truth, the catalyst for the flare up was a horrible foul by Newcastle’s Steven Taylor.
With just seconds remaining in the first half the pair had a coming together right on the right hand touchline as Taylor appeared to strike Ronaldo on the side of the face. As may have been expected, Ronaldo went down like the proverbial sack of potatoes, with the Portuguese winger bellowing out a yelp as he hit the deck with a thud.
The incident can be seen here.
What happened afterwards is the stuff the tabloids dream of. As the pair were heading down the tunnel, Ronaldo is claimed to have said to Taylor “Your style of football is s**t,” with the Newcastle centre-half snapping back with the lame comeback, “Well you are ugly!”
With arguably the best critique of the events, Sam Wallace pointed out that “Steven Taylor’s half-time retort to Cristiano Ronaldo [was] on the grand scale of witty comebacks, more Vicky Pollard than Oscar Wilde. Yet, in its own inarticulate way, it summed up the helplessness that the rest of the League is experiencing in the face of United’s onslaught.”
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UPDATE: A much better video showing Steven Taylor’s foul on Cristiano Ronaldo can be seen here.
4 Responses to “Handbags at 9-paces: Steven Taylor & Cristiano Ronaldo’s girlie spat”
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March 5th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
apparently though, it was wayne rooney and ronaldo trying to get at taylor in the tunnel. so his retort was probably intended at rooney, which im sure you will agree, is quite understandable in its context!
March 5th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
i think totally horrendous. Ronaldo is so pretty and gorgeous. He may look like he slipped on a salmon yet the tackle was as bad as the ghaniain president. We can conclude ronaldos comment was correct however
CRgr8
March 5th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
Watn sjonnie actie ja
maar ik denk niet dat jullie dit begrijpen
dus later
March 5th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
My god. The dislike you have for Ronaldo here is immense. Had Taylor done that to any other player, youd’ve made a half-page post in your blog explaining why the player who commited the foul should be shot.