Ronaldo (37) Slaps Phone Out of Child’s (14) Hand | Charged after 5 months of deliberation

I should sue my teachers for hitting my palms with the ruler when I was naughty in class. They assaulted minors!

I was hit across the knuckles with a ruler in class by a NUN - and I'd done nothing wrong!!! I still remember her name - Sister Margaret Mary........evil personified!
 
The woman should sell her house and give CR7 the money for the privilege of Ronaldo touching her son.
 
First sun article I’ve read in a very long time and I actually don’t think she’s doing all this for the fame here.

Seems like a genuine my son has just been hit by a man why the hell would I want to make things better for the man who did it?

I actually think she comes across well in that (which rarely happens in Sun stories).
Shocking that you would feel that way.
 
Such a pathetic non story. Accept the apology and move on for goodness sake, greedy shits.

Nah he should replace the phone and do some other gesture (trip to Disneyland or whatever) for reparations to make the child actually grateful he got hit by Ronaldo.

I wouldn't dare do this to someone else kid never mind a superstar role model Infront of all the world's media. Do the gesture and move on. Hardly takes a day's pay to make the lad happy.
 
A fine or a 1-3 match ban would be fair considering it took place directly after the game and therefore still within the context of the ‘match’ and offering the lad tickets to Everton rather than United.
Should get less than the punishment that Eric Dier got. Anything more would be absolutely ridiculous
 
More like hilariously bizarre that you actually seem to think the biggest star in the biggest sport on the planet doing something like this in front of cameras would not be a story.
People need to calm down a little. A little incident and nothing more. He said he was sorry and offered boy to come to OldTrafford what I think was fair. This should be end of it. This is equal to shoot a ball in desperation and hit someone in stands. Say sorry and move on. But no. Drag it out to the end of time.

*Cue JFK music*

So the photo being used to highlight the alleged attack on the day in question shows the top of the kid's being brutally bruised.

Based on this image we can see it is the top of the kid's left hand. Notice position of thumb and fingers (assume he has normal human anatomy).

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Now look at position of child in this frame and the way he holds his mobular device. Clearly he holds phone in his open left palm as god intended.

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Next frame shows alleged vicious attacker walk towards innocent child. Note that the phone still placed in kid's open left palm (hard to see but true).

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The moment before the assault when the evil ne'er do weller winds up ready to attack. The kid's hand hasn't moved and he holds phone same way.

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So you tell me Redcafe. How did Ronaldo bruise the top of the kid's hand based on the angle and trajectory of the bullet slap?

Dare I say it. Maybe we're looking at a second slapper here??
I'm impressed.
 
I'm sorry I slapped you. But cheer up, as compensation I grant you a meeting with me. :lol:
 
This is equal to shoot a ball in desperation and hit someone in stands.

Is it?

No one is saying Ronaldo should be hung, just that he's in the wrong. And people are flocking in to insult the kid's mum and other weird ass takes
 
Hilarious that this is even a story.


Are you insane? If you were writing a Yes Minister style satire then this would be stretching credibility. The sports biggest star, one of the world's most recognisable faces, lashes out at an autistic minor and breaks his phone. As far as stories go it's pretty wild.
It's hilarious on so many levels. Millionaire breaks kids phone, professional athlete bruises kids hand. Like he has apologised and will definitely compensate the kid but he totally deserves the ridicule.
 
Is it?

No one is saying Ronaldo should be hung, just that he's in the wrong. And people are flocking in to insult the kid's mum and other weird ass takes
I think it is. It is done from desperation of a lost game and maybe his injury. Not exuse but could be explanation. Nobody really knows.

No one should be insulted and I have actually not seen anyone doing that. Maybe I haven't been looking like I should and I guess that is because I don't see this as a big issue. Mothers are mothers. They want the best for their children and will protect them. They have their right to do that. It is their job. I do question why and don't see any point doing interviews or writing this on social media. This should be dealt with between family and Ronaldo (club).

Ronaldo did a wrong thing. There is nobody denying that. But we should take it easy. He apologized. He even invited family to OldTrafford. What we don't know is if he would buy a kid new mobile (should be done in my opinion). That should be more then enough. Bans or even more? Come on.
 
So the mother has refused to meet with Ronaldo, she’s going to be milking this for everything she can.

Yeah shes the villain here. Ronaldo was under pressure, there's no excuse for her, as if raising an autistic kid is pressure!
 
Yeah shes the villain here. Ronaldo was under pressure, there's no excuse for her, as if raising an autistic kid is pressure!
Didn’t say she wasn’t under pressure, just said she will be milking it.
 
Parents tend to be quite precious about their kids.
I’m sitting here doing spelling with my 5 year old niece, I can understand the concept, but it didn’t cross your mind she will maybe try and put both hands in?
 
I’m sitting here doing spelling with my 5 year old niece, I can understand the concept, but it didn’t cross your mind she will maybe try and put both hands in?

Anything is possible. But it's quite ugly how her character is assumed to be rotten. It's n I t like she struck out at a child.

Maybe she is entitled to milk it? Maybe a less protected privileged individual wouldn't hit out after losing a football match?
 
I'm finding it very amusing that anyone can defend any 37 year old breaking 14 year olds phone. If it happened in any other situation the adult would be a pariah, immediately and universally. But we attack the kid and the mother instead.
 
Anything is possible. But it's quite ugly how her character is assumed to be rotten. It's n I t like she struck out at a child.

Maybe she is entitled to milk it? Maybe a less protected privileged individual wouldn't hit out after losing a football match?
Yeah maybe so, I wasn’t trying to assassinate her character just an assumption of how I see things going.
 
Maybe a less protected privileged individual wouldn't hit out after losing a football match?

Exactly, a lot on here seem to be ok with framing the multimillionaire, who lashed out in frustration against an autistic child, as a victim of extortion by the scumbag mother. :lol:

If she takes the money, she's only in it for the money and if she doesn't shes only in it for the fame/ media attention.

She should just keep her mouth shut and take it apparently.
 
I'm finding it very amusing that anyone can defend any 37 year old breaking 14 year olds phone. If it happened in any other situation the adult would be a pariah, immediately and universally. But we attack the kid and the mother instead.
Bit much like, if I was along with people giving somebody abuse and filming it I don’t think my parents would be as accommodating to me.
 
Bit much like, if I was along with people giving somebody abuse and filming it I don’t think my parents would be as accommodating to me.

Not a bit much in my opinion. Imagine a ripped 6ft dude doing that to a kid in the local pub. He would have some serious back peddling to do. Even if the kid was sticking a phone in his face. Its the act of a twat in my opinion. Not criminal but cowardly.
 
If a 14 year old youth started following you around filming you as you were taking pelters, and you took it off him and snapped it in half, would the world give a shit?

I think not.

Me being filmed and Ronaldo being filmed you see as the same thing? So you think using phones as cameras is the issue here. Should we ban it as it upsets the players?
 
Is this still rumbling on?

Saw some footage from the other angle, of some rabid scouser abusing each of our players as they walked off one by one from about half a metre away.
Not surprised players snap every so often.

In an age where they are clamping down on any sort of discrimination and making words hate crimes, it seems odd that abusing players seems seen as fair game.
 
Is this still rumbling on?

Saw some footage from the other angle, of some rabid scouser abusing each of our players as they walked off one by one from about half a metre away.
Not surprised players snap every so often.

In an age where they are clamping down on any sort of discrimination and making words hate crimes, it seems odd that abusing players seems seen as fair game.


Fully agree. I have no time for abusing sportspeople. But if it is an issue, you still don't break a kids phone.
 
Get a new phone pay the contact for 3 years or so, done deal, move on send the mother a phone as well, send the whole family phones, he can afford it, seems that's won't be enough, perhaps he should be put on community service picking litter up in there estate or something like that, jeez making something out of nothing . New phone move on cheers.
 
How is this story in any way comparable to the Hazard ball boy kicking incident. That ball boy deserved to be kicked the shit out of (which he didn’t) for doing the exact opposite of the task he was assigned to.
 
In the context of your post they are. Since your point was any other adult intentionally breaking a 14 year olds phone could make them a pariah. And that's only really ever going to happen if the 14 year old is filming them.

I think most would take a pretty dim view of the sorts of people who whip their phones out to gleefully record others being bullied or abused. Not that this youth was necessarily doing that to the United players but from Ronaldo's perspective it probably seemed like that.

In my experience most incidences of an adult breaking a kids phone in an angry lashing out would not play well.

But yeah, poor Ronaldo.
 
How is this story in any way comparable to the Hazard ball boy kicking incident. That ball boy deserved to be kicked the shit out of (which he didn’t) for doing the exact opposite of the task he was assigned to.

I feel the same about the Cantona comparisons. Eric was 100% right.