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Ronaldo slaps phone out of fans hand

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,409 ✭✭✭corner of hells




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83,424 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
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    In the video the fans were behaving to the United players leaving the field like thugish animals you would see watching a bare knuckle brawl, he should have grabbed it proper out of the fans hand and smashed it to pieces.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,861 ✭✭✭Mysterypunter


    He put more effort into doing that than he did in the match, I’d hate to be paying him or Paul Pogba, and there are a few more, amazing that Ronaldo was I’ll when United were playing Man City, he would be grand if they were at home to Norwich



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,108 ✭✭✭CGI_Livia_Soprano
    Holding tyrants to the fire


    He was dead right, too many people think their phones allow them to invade the personal space of others.

    Ronaldo should answer for his rape accusations however.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,290 ✭✭✭tanko


    There’s no excuse for what he did. He has no problem getting paid millions every year for his image rights. He’s just a hypocrite. If he put as much effort into playing like he should he’d be better off.



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  • Posts: 18,749 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Ah he did something a bit stupid, without thinking. He's apologised and is trying to make amends. I think that's fair enough, everyone makes mistakes or has bad days.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 899 ✭✭✭DrZeuss


    Wow, how can anyone defend a grown man for slapping (and leaving a bruise) a kids hand and breaking their phone.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,230 ✭✭✭jj880


    He has invited the boy (everton fan) to watch a game at old trafford in the name of fair play and sportsmanship. Strange offer that. Should be brand new phone, laptop and top seats at an Everton home game for the kid and a few of his mates. Not a good look for Ronaldo.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 899 ✭✭✭DrZeuss


    Surely the kids been through enough, no need to punish him further.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,286 ✭✭✭thefallingman


    The ma is looking for cash the way she’s talking and fair enough



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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,104 ✭✭✭rolling boh


    I would cut him some slack am not a utd fan but his emotions were proberly running high he is dissapointed having lost a match and people are sticking phones all over so no surprise he reacted poorly he has said he is sorry . If anybody wants to approach a star better to wait and judge the mood first .



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,535 ✭✭✭dobman88


    The only shocking thing about this incident is that it hasnt happened many times before. Players, and celebrities in general, having phones stuck in their faces all the time.

    He was wrong and hopefully he buys the kid a new phone now he has apologised but the public need to be aware that iust because someone is famous, you don't get to record everything that they do.





  • The mam straight to the papers for a payday.

    Indefensible. Part of being a high earning professional is being able to maintain a temperament in a variety of situations, this should have been easy for him. It's ethically wrong in my view to stick a camera in someone's face and invade their privacy without their permission but it's not illegal and people will not hesitate to do it for the social media affirmation they want.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,781 ✭✭✭✭kippy


    Was he at his place of work? One would assume if he was then people taking photos and dealing with them would be part of his job. He sure as hell is getting paid enough for it to be



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,535 ✭✭✭dobman88


    I dont understand that view. Nobody walks into my work and takes photos of me and I'd be miffed if they did.

    100% he shouldn't have done it but I dont blame him, or any celeb that may lash out in a moment of frustration



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,781 ✭✭✭✭kippy


    I don't understand how you can compare your job to that of a premier League footballer.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,076 ✭✭✭trashcan


    I kind of half agree with you, but I doubt if anyone pays money to come to your job and watch you work. (Maybe you’re really really good at your job, I don’t know.😀



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,391 ✭✭✭olestoepoke


    It's a pity Monday night football is not on, I was hoping to hear Carragher's take on it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,211 ✭✭✭✭Suckit


    Is it just a load of kids, the very people that he is supposed to be setting an example to?

    I can't make out the lad who's phone was smacked, to see how old he is, but he doesn't look old. Everyone else in the video is about 10 - 12.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,860 ✭✭✭SteM


    The lad that spat at fans from his car? Why would you want to hear his take on it?



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  • Posts: 0 ✭✭✭ Louie Scary Semicircle


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,860 ✭✭✭SteM




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,823 ✭✭✭Allinall


    What does his pay have to do with anything?

    Been mentioned in lots of posts, but not sure how it’s relevant.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,669 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Mammy will soon be looking for a cash settlement.

    Shee's already setting it in motion with the bruised hand claim.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,535 ✭✭✭dobman88


    Its just a job. It's a very public, highly paid job but just a job.

    Like I said, a moment of frustration I'm sure he or anyone else would regret.

    I'd assume you dont want people coming to your job sticking a phone in your face either. Dont think we will agree on this anyway but sure.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,535 ✭✭✭dobman88


    I think I'm good at it, I'm sure some would disagree. Deal with the public every day. Have had phones in my face, not to the point of a famous soccer player but its not a nice thing to happen



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,581 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    A classic case of the s**t hitting the fan 🙂

    (only joking, nothing against Ronaldo really)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,404 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Ronaldo was assaulted far more on the pitch, his leg was cut in many places. It was just frustration that he slapped the phone, but he never attacked the lad. Of course he should not have done it, moment of weakness, but it shows he cares about winning, every other United player left the pitch without a care in the world, and they hide behind the fact the media claim the problem with United is Ronaldo, that it's just not working with Ronaldo in the team. But in reality he's one of the true professionals at he club.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,798 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Plus… the kid is afraid to watch football and is afraid of the colour red…£££££££

    he was working for United so any payout will be likely out of their funds,



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,713 ✭✭✭✭thebaz


    He broke a phone - given the attrocities going on in the world , people getting wound cause its Ronaldo - he likes to win and was probably getting dogs abuse and snapped - he'll pony up for a new phone, appologise and make some gesture - get over it and I support Everton,



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,391 ✭✭✭olestoepoke


    Nah jokes usually lose their punch when you have to explain them, straight over your head lol.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,636 ✭✭✭✭McDermotX


    Burn him



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,789 ✭✭✭✭BattleCorp


    Mammy was at home catching his hand in the door to make sure it was bruised. Then off to the papers.



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,177 ✭✭✭Fandymo




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,789 ✭✭✭✭BattleCorp


    Sorry. I mistyped there. I meant to say my Mammy caught her fingers in the door shortly before she was off down the shops to get the paper.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,391 ✭✭✭olestoepoke


    The ambulance chasers will be circling today



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,284 ✭✭✭✭rob316


    Heat of the moment stuff, he'll get a new phone and Ronaldo will meet him after a game for photos and apologize. He is fairly decent with his fans, especially kids from what I see. I applaud any celebrity smacking a phone out of their faces, not a child's but any grown adult's.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,543 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    I bet he wouldn't have done it if the guy holding the phone was 6ft skinhead and built like a brick **** house.



  • Registered Users Posts: 9,841 ✭✭✭buried


    This story is funny as f**k. I remember a player at Manchester United karate kicking some fan on the touchline in the face was the biggest story of the week. Now some modern player relieves a mobile phone from its 12 year old tiktok addicted owners digits and everybody looses their minds. All yer man Ronaldo did was what this young lads auld wan should have done 6 years ago.

    "You have disgraced yourselves again" - W. B. Yeats



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 87,498 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1




  • Posts: 0 ✭✭✭ Louie Scary Semicircle


    I am genuinely stunned here at how many are lining up to condemn the kid and the mother. Last time I checked the kid was the victim not the perpetrator. He also has autism and dyspraxia, and he was at his first match. Who knows what mental damage Ronaldos action has done. Some of you need to take a look at yourselves.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,543 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    ^

    Yeah, just read there that the 14 year old is autistic and suffers from dyspraxia too.

    Just gets better and better for Ronaldo.



  • Registered Users Posts: 2 SoupDraggon


    A phone a camera or your own eyes don't invade someone's privacy. If you want privacy then don't leave the house. In public you have no expectation of privacy.



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,108 ✭✭✭CGI_Livia_Soprano
    Holding tyrants to the fire


    Utter rubbish. So you would be fine with cameras in changing rooms and toilets, yeah?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,513 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    he was walking off the pitch. he was in public. people taking pictures is part of his job.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83,424 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
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    If he sends them an EyePhone 12 and a sleeve of Rothmans the story goes away.



  • Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    He's human. Don't like him much but it's hardly that big a deal.

    Most haven't had videos taken of them when they're really not in the mood for it.



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,108 ✭✭✭CGI_Livia_Soprano
    Holding tyrants to the fire


    I don’t think someone coming up to you and taking a photo up your leg is part of the job. It wasn’t okay when people were taking photos of Britney Spears’ whoopsie fifteen years ago, why is it alright to invade the alleged rapist Ronaldo’s personal space?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,008 ✭✭✭skallywag




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