Julio Santos

I’ve been pretty oblivious to the whole Ronaldo-Rooney saga, but now that I finally solved a mystery, I’m happy enough I had to post about it.

The mystery started during the Portugal-France match. Every time Ronaldo would touch the ball, the crowd would just boo. I thought maybe the “superkid” (as they call him in Portugal) had done something nasty to the French. Or maybe that they were so scared of him (judging from his recent performance, I don’t see why they would be) and were booing to throw him off. Weird, but I guess it’s possible.

Then the same thing happens during Portugal-Germany. Okay, now something is not right. Ronaldo is not that good and he can’t possibly have pissed off the French and the Germans, in a way that deserves automatic booing.

After some quick investigation, it turns out the booers aren’t French or German, but English. And it’s all payback for Rooney’s red card. You see, Rooney and Ronaldo play for Manchester United, and there was an incident involving these two during the Portugal-England game. After Rooney decided to tapdance on a fallen Portuguese player’s groin (ouch), Ronaldo pointed it out to the ref. Rooney then proceeds to push Ronaldo, and he’s shown a red card. Depending who you ask, Rooney got sent off because of his stepping on Carvalho’s groin, or he got sent off because of his pushing Ronaldo.

Either way, Ronaldo then winks at his team, as he’s saying “pwned”.

Now there are talks of death threats. Not that surprising though and it looks like Ronaldo will have to play for Real Madrid.

The incident here. The people commenting on it are obviously on the English side, so don’t forget the salt:

Oh yes, other gossip, that also has to do with balls:

Ann Coulter called in 90 minutes late to Adam Carolla’s radio show, and then started complaining that she was tight on time. Carolla says “get lost” and hangs up. The transcript and the audio here.