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It's hard to know where to look. Pecs, ceps and six pack in all their rippling, sinuous glory. In moody black and white.
A full page in the Sun shows above the following Q&A.
Q: "Can you walk past a mirror without looking at yourself?"A: "I promise you the maximum is one minute, I swear. When you've good hair like me, it's easy to style.
Ah, you think, shaking your head. Everything you know about the Portuguese goal machine is true. He loves himself. Vanity, vanity all is vanity.
But to be fair to Ronaldo - admittedly not what football fans see as their USP - the full interview on the facing page gives a slightly different view of the man from Madeira. His answer to the question reads as follows: "(Laughs) Ha, this is not true, this is a joke! I don't remember who said that about me, but it's not true. I'm not standing in front of a mirror for 30 minutes. I promise you the maximum is one minute, I swear. When you have good hair like me it's easy to style it."
The other significant moment in the interview? His use of 12 verys in a row. Asked if he would ever play for Manchester City he says nothing is impossible in football. Before taking the interview equivalent of a dive: "But I can say it would be very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very difficult to play at Man City. VERY difficult because of Manchester United."
Verily, the boy doth protest too much.