By Chris Wright
In which, hours after being dumped out of the Champions League by Barcelona, Real Madrid pair Cristiano Ronaldo and Jose Mourinho were captured on camera at El Prat airport giving the Spanish hand gesture for ‘robbery’ – a subtle reference to a Gonzalo Higuain ‘goal’ that was chalked off while the tie was still goalless…
Here’s the incident in question…
http://youtu.be/riQd1U3-FzE
As you can see, Higuain’s strike was wiped from the slate as the tumbling Ronaldo was deemed to have impeded the last man, Javier Mascherano – who stopped, dropped and rolled when he realised he couldn’t reach his fellow countryman before the striker clipped a shot past Victor Valdes.
The brazen fact that Ronaldo himself swan-dived to precipitate the whole shebang is apparently neither here nor there.