League officials have logged Cristiano Ronaldo's retirement hint as a one-line fixture note. They have placed a lunchtime five-a-side behind a hotel car park on full match alert.
The Portugal captain told Vogue this year is probably his last as a footballer. He has more than 950 goals for club and country.
This is a gutsy, late-season war and we are treating every throw-in like a final.
A competition official said that about the hotel game. Ronaldo can wait. The clutch prize is the last orange in the kit bag. You simply cannot teach that kind of grit.
