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Ronaldo becomes highest scoring man in international soccer history

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what a player - The guy is a machine !

He’s also an amazing person.

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Ireland were ROBBED. This was the worst referee performance I have ever witnessed.The ref looked absolutely besotted and star-struck with Ronaldo and clearly wanted to be part of a historic record. He looked desperate to facilitate Ronaldo's record.

The penalty Ronaldo missed was no penalty. But the ref took approx. 5 minutes looking at replays ( and so did we) but still awarded it. Right in front of the ref Ronaldo struck out with a fist at an Irish player and made contact but the ref just ignored that. Its a "STATUTORY" sending off offence. Ronaldo had to be sent off for it irrespective of e/g/ provocation etc according to the rules. Irish players were being chopped down all through the match but the ref decided to book two of them calming they wee actually just wasting time. One Irish player clearly went over on his ankle (very nasty injury) and made very slight contact with a Portuguese player in the process. As the poor guy limped off the ref came behind him and gave him a yellow card. Ireland was denied an absolutely certain penalty in the second half. Ronaldo's second goal was almost one minute after the 5 minutes allotted for extra-time. The above points have also been made by practically every journalist reviewing this game. It was nothing short of a disgrace. There should be a method of rectifying such appalling referee performances after the games.

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