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09th Apr 2016

Dutch team expertly take the p**s out of Cristiano Ronaldo’s Action Man body

Kevin McGillicuddy

Cristiano Ronaldo is a very vain man.

He poses and preens with his top off more often that a Playboy model trying to impress Hugh Hefner.

The Portuguese is in very buff shape, and more power to him, as we scoff yet another bag of Malteasers and tuck into our third pizza of the afternoon.

He works out like hell to be in tip-top shape for football, but it still doesn’t excuse this ridiculous picture from last week in the minutes after Real Madrid’s 2-1 win over Barcelona at Camp Nou.

Now thankfully Almere City FC, a Dutch second division team, have expertly taken the absolute Michael out of the picture with their own homage to Ronaldo in what we’d like to call ‘Junior B’ style.

We thought y-fronts had been banned in every European country since World War Two, but there is clearly a thriving black market in budgie smugglers at football clubs.

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