Mark Critchley
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1,840 appearances
10 recordings
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 8 Jul
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And I think that's the case for Bruno.
It's the case for Sean Neves.
It's the case for Nuno Mendes.
It's the case for Vitinha.
It's the case for all of these players who have to be in service to Ronaldo.
I almost wonder, what if he hadn't scored those goals against Uzbekistan?
Would that have maybe even helped Portugal a little bit?
Because yes, the cacophony of noise that is around this issue and always surrounds this issue would have only increased.
The volume would only have been higher.
But it might have forced Martinez into a decision at some point.
And he is capable of making those decisions.
We've seen him take him off before.
We've seen him in the Nations League.
I think he was substituting him in the semifinals and the final.
You know, it's not that he was absolutely intransigent.
Ronaldo has to play at all times.
But it felt like if Ronaldo was justifying it through...
a penalty here, a goal against Uzbekistan there, then it was a political question and a political situation that would rather be avoided.
I don't think that's a healthy environment in which to try and win a football tournament, to be honest, for any national team.
But I do wonder if we're going to be having these questions again in two years' time and then in four years' time and forever how long it lasts.
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