You just can’t keep Real Madrid’s sorry, Manchester United’s Cristiano Ronaldo out of the news. On the day that his national manager was unveiled as the new manager of Chelsea, he played a big part in the fifth day of Euro 2008 which saw the two first day winners and the two first day losers take each other on.
In the early game, the Portuguese, so impressive in their easy victory over Turkey, were up against sterner opposition in the Czech Republic, who had been less than impressive when defeating Switzerland.
The game started in the manner that most people would have predicted when Deco gave Portugal an eighth minute lead. However, that lead lasted only nine minutes until the impressive Sionko netted an equaliser for …