Luis Suarez appreciation thread

their emotions in front of a hushed audience. It is the club's media day building up to the 50th anniversary of the Munich air disaster and Sir Bobby Charlton's polite smile does not hide the fact he is trembling as he takes his seat. Bill Foulkes is straight-backed and dignified but only a couple of questions have been asked before the tears appear in his eyes and he reaches for a glass of water.
In an adjacent room Wayne Rooney has agreed to offer a modern-day perspective of that seminal day when 23 people, including eight members of Sir Matt Busby's team, were killed in the wreckage of the burnt-out BEA Elizabethan. It is not his specialist subject but he handles the occasion with dignity and more eloquence than some people might imagine. But then Cristiano Ronaldo comes through the double doors and the mood is broken.

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He is wearing a white suit jacket and ripped jeans, looking every bit the boy-band hunk, but it is very obvious he is in a bad mood. He begins by berating Karen Shotbolt, the club's press officer, because he is waiting for Rooney and the event has over-run. He is banging his watch with his hand, flapping his arms and gesturing in the way that Portuguese footballers usually reserve for fussy referees and, at first, he is so animated it appears as if it might be a wind-up.
When he flounces back through the doors, cursing loudly, it is very obvious he is being deadly serious. Rooney is professional enough to carry on with his tribute but the attention is no longer exclusively on him. Thirty seconds later Ronaldo appears again, first rapping his forefinger against the glass in the door, then opening it by a fraction and starting to whistle at Rooney in the way that a farmer beckons his sheepdog.
It was such an unpleasant scene the journalists decided not to write about it because we had been invited to the training ground to cover a far more important subject and, when you have sat with men as noble as Charlton, Foulkes, Albert Scanlon, Harry Gregg and Kenny Morgans and seen the hurt in their eyes, it felt incongruous to veer off-track. But coming away from Carrington that day it was difficult not to wonder what had become of the pimply teenager with the braces on his teeth who had been photographed, in his first few weeks as a United player, holding hands with his mother, Dolores, as they crossed a busy Manchester street.
The answer, of course, is that Ronaldo has fallen in love with his own reflection

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2008/jun/21/manchesterunited.premierleague1

 

Mmmm, nice. The shop over the road from me sells large bags of onion rings for 30p they are good too

 

They're not crisps are they... FFS stay on topic

 

No mate, but according to his father he hasn't, and due to him not saying his father is mistaken we'll have to take his dads word for it.

http://www.southwales-eveningpost.c...dding-unless/story-21140156-detail/story.html

 

Ryan Giggs confirmed worst human being in premiership history

 

Had honestly never heard about it Page, even now i only have this column written by a journalist who decided not to write about it to go off. If true i feel pretty sure (and you should too) that an apology was expected and recieved by the appropriate people. Since this was never reported and never became public knowledge there was no public apology.

 

Poor Giggsy, he thought we'd all forgot about it.

 

Who are you calling a norm?

 

Pretty sure I'd read about this before. Can't remember where though.
Nothing surprises me with footballers, tbh.

 

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He just posted the link

 

Can only assume it must be true or he or Man Utd would have demanded an apology and that the story be deleted from the Guardian archives.

 

He would have to admit he bit him before he could apologise, unless you mean his apology for the "collision".

 

I know, i read it

 

He apologised for having big teeth.

 

Giggs and his dad are not the best of friends and i wouldn`t believe a word either said about the other

 

That's because you don't want to accept that Ryan is a twat, but us neutrals can see his dad is being totally honest plus there's no objection to the story from Ryan's legal team.

 

I don`t doubt it and am not surprised either. The point is this seemed to be kept largely in-house and so no public apology was neccessary in the same way that Giggs problem was a family/private matter. The only people who are due an apology are those directly involved.

 

Ah, but both stories come into play when those calling Suarez fit to burn don't feel the need to show their moral outrage about events closer to home.

 

Bit bored of all this now

Hope something happens soon so we have something new to talk about. Another controversy at the WC or a new signing announced or sake agreed.

Heck is even take a new contract for back room staff if it gave us something new!

 

Can`t beat new signings in my opinion