Tommy Martin: Blubbering fortysomethings - Why I almost wept for the great egomaniacal teddy bear himself

Regular readers of this column – and a big hello to both of you – will remember a certain amount of eye-rolling prose about Cristiano Ronaldo blubbing like a baby after missing a penalty in extra-time of Portugal’s Euro 2024 Round of 16 tie with Slovenia last summer.

If I remember correctly, the point was that he was too long in the tooth to be crying about a game of football. The price of new set of tyres? Wife using vintage Pearl Jam t-shirt to clean the windows? Forgetting to pick up one of those discounted handheld chainsaws in the middle aisle of Aldi? All valid things for a man of his age to break down and weep about. But not a game of footy, legend of the game or not.

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