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Published 11:53 3 Mar 2017 GMT
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'What is Ronaldo's problem? Is he injured? Is he checked out? Is he finished?'As Cristiano fanboys go, I'm as fawning and as pathetic as the worst of them but here I was watching what should've been a nothing game with Las Palmas descend into chaos and I was baying for blood. I wanted answers. I wanted a scapegoat. For 85 minutes, the best player I've ever enjoyed watching was standing still, throwing his hands into the air, losing the ball. The crowd were on his back and he wasn't giving them any reason to get off it (outside of the 387 goals he had already scored for the club before that game). For the last five minutes, he Ronaldo bagged two goals, brought his tally to three in two games and completed another comeback for Real Madrid in successive fixtures. https://twitter.com/ConanDoherty/status/837620744817426436 Injured? Checked out? Finished? Sports fans are brats. They're spoiled. Petulant. Incestuous. They don't stop whinging until they get what they want and then when they get that, they demand more. Expectation is the worst thing you could offer someone like this because once the bar is raised, they'll never accept anything beneath it. It got me thinking about a man called Rob Kearney.
Even a brief snapshot through his career would command respect.
Kearney was faced with two men and did only what he could do. He was lambasted for not stopping both of them.
But that's what we do as sports fans. We whinge.
When things don't go our way, we turn on each other - we turn on even the ones who can help us the most. But make no mistake about it, if Ireland topple England on March 18 at Lansdowne Road and Joe Schmidt clinches the Six Nations again, you can be damn sure that Rob Kearney will be the toast of Dublin once more and all will be forgotten.
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