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Ronaldo retirement bumped by a lunchtime kickabout

A hotel car park kickabout has been put on full match alert instead.

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Shot from behind in late-afternoon sun, adult players in mismatched training bibs jostle at a faded white line on hotel car-park tarmac, one gloved hand.

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.