Ronaldo To Snub Mourinho

Last updated : 05 August 2007 By Editor

NOTW:

Ronaldo's mother Dolores Santos reveals:

"I am the one who told Cristiano not to say a word to Mourinho — and he hasn't.

"They still have not spoken since he called my boy ill-educated and tried to embarrass him in public.

"I don't believe he will shake hands with Mourinho before the game on Sunday either.

"I wasn't going to have my son dropping to that level. I told him not to speak to him — and he hasn't.

"Mourinho always liked Cristiano a lot. They would speak to each other on their mobile phones and they were friends. But things have changed.

"It's wrong bringing class into it. Mourinho said Cristiano had no education and that it wasn't a surprise considering where he had come from.

"Yes, I was once poor. My children were raised in a social quarter but I knew how to educate them.

"As far as I know, there is nothing wrong with being poor.

"Maybe Mourinho was always rich and that's why he speaks of others the way he does."

At the FA Cup final in May, shortly after the two had gone public with their views, there was a frosty stand-off.

Dolores revealed: "Mourinho went to the dressing room immediately after the final whistle and he only came onto the pitch a long time afterwards.

"I don't know why. I think he probably didn't want to see Cristiano after what he had said — in any case, it didn't matter. My son would not have shaken hands with him then either."