PETER JACKSON
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW

Cristiano Ronaldo may never have heard of Neil Back nor Percy Montgomery but he could do worse than find out what happened to them as fellow professionals who lost the plot and manhandled a match official.
The footballer got five matches for pushing referee Ricardo de Burgos during Real Madrid’s win over Barcelona in the first leg of the Spanish Super Cup. Far from showing remorse, Ronaldo railed against ‘persecution’, lambasting the punishment as ‘exaggerated and ridiculous’.
Imagine, then, what he would have said had ...