Cristiano Ronaldo Breaks Middlesbrough Fan’s Wrist (Hopefully Not Deliberately Though)

Ever wondered how hard Cristiano Ronaldo strikes a football? Well wonder no longer, because now we have an answer. It’s not in miles per hour, or km per hour, but it’s still a pretty accurate unit of measurement. Cristiano Ronaldo’s shots are officially hard enough to break a 68 year old man’s wrist.

Middlesbrough fan Fred Harrison was at the Riverside for the Boro’ 2-2 Man Utd game on April 6th, when one of C-Ron’s efforts flew just over the bar and headed straight towards Harrison. “As it was coming I put my hands up to stop it hitting my face because I was thinking about my glasses,” he said.

The result was a broken right wrist, which is now encased a in a plaster cast decorated with footballs (pictured, who says the National Health Service has no sense of humour?)

Harisson has no hard feelings, saying “I definitely think he’s the best footballer in the world.” But the worrying thing is that given how deadly accurate Ronaldo has been with a football lately, it’s not impossible that he was actually aiming for Harrison.

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Category: World Football