Some arrive early. Some need time. Some peak late. And a rare few seem to have several primes. There is a tendency to talk about sporting careers as though they follow a predictable timetable. A young player breaks through, improves through his early twenties, reaches his prime somewhere around his mid-to-late twenties, then gradually declines as age catches up […]
After watching Portugal crash out of the 2022 World Cup in a 1-0 defeat to Morocco, there was a feeling that we had seen Cristiano Ronaldo for the very last time on football’s biggest stage. He only managed one goal throughout that tournament – penalty in their Group H opener against Ghana – and it’s fair to say he […]
The whole football world and fans were thrown into a wild emotion yesterday after arguably the most expensive and expressive picture presently on the planet earth emerged on the internet. Having dominated discussions over who is the greatest footballer of all time, Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi starred in their first joint advertisement for luxury clothing brand Louis Vuitton […]