Football Daily | Cristiano Ronaldo: 40 moments to mark his 40th birthday

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Cristiano Ronaldo turns 40 today and celebrated in trademark style, posing for a picture in his time-machine cryo-trousers. Hurrah! Looks like a right laugh. Here are 40 slightly more memorable moments, good and bad (and in no particular order), since his rise to fame as a teenager at Sporting.

There’s a balance. I think we all like to see celebrations. Some of the celebrations have been very funny, entertaining, but there’s a line. Once it crosses over into mockery or criticism, then we would need to deal with it – Tony Scholes, the Premier League’s chief football officer, tells Sky that players could face sanctions for goal celebrations that make fun of opponents in future.

How could anyone possibly confuse Carlos Jonas ‘Charly’ Alcaraz Durán with Carlos Alcaraz Garfia (yesterday’s Bits and Bobs)? Charly is seven centimetres shorter and undoubtedly has an inferior backhand” – Max Maxwell.

Despite its minute font size, the caption beneath your photo of the newly unveiled design for Wrexham’s proposed Kop stand (‘Looks pretty good, to be fair’ ) screamed ‘cognitive dissonance’ to me. It looks neither ‘pretty’ nor ‘good’ nor ‘fair’, even in a year when The Brutalist has been nominated for an Oscar. Perhaps I’ve just spent too little time at the Gedling Inn” – Clinton Macsherry.

It’s kind of Mike Wilner to offer Marcus Rashford’s services to Nottingham Forest, but we already have an attacker who Manchester United didn’t deem good enough and practically gave away. He’s not doing too badly” – Jim Hearson.

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