Controversy follows Ronaldo’s penalty goal

Controversy has followed the bizarre penalty that Cristiano Ronaldo scored  at the Bernabeu last night against PSG.

The ball appeared to have popped up slightly right at the moment that Cristiano was about to hit the ball as if by witchcraft.

Initially it was speculated that the forward had disturbed the ball in a way so as to make it pop up just slightly – enabling him to volley it with more force, but slow motion replays later revealed that he had, in fact, disturbed the turf underneath the ball and causing it to move.

Ronaldo’s former Man U teammate Rio Ferdinand suggested that the forward used to do that sort of thing in training.

'He used to do that in training you know!' Ferdinand told BT Sport.

'He used to mess about in training and do it but to do it in a game, I’m not saying he means it, but he used to do it. I swear to you, crazy but he used to do it.

Meanwhile Premier League Referee Graham Poll suggested that since the ball moved, the spot kick should have been retaken.