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‘If a picture can paint a thousand words then why can’t I paint Roo?’

Someone today kindly emailed me this picture of Ronaldo ‘making up’ with Manchester United team-mate Roo after the World Cup hissy fit.  I’m not sure whether the old cliche is always true but spornographic images are always more eloquent - or just hotter - than words.  Certainly it renders yesterday’s posting somewhat redundant. 

And it makes me warm all over to think that Ronaldo can put that big, pouting, ref-pestering Portugese gob of his to a useful, pacifying purpose (defusing the boner Roo had to pick with him without getting split in two).  I only wish the apology were a little more explicit.  Not to mention convincing. 

But, alas, even Photoshop has its limits.  This amusing example of homemade sporno currently overheating tens of thousands of Inbox’s around the world does at least prove something: when it comes to young sporting bucks, I’m definitely not the only one with a dirty mind.