The mother of a young Everton fan who seemingly had his phone slapped out of his hand by Cristiano Ronaldo in a controversial incident last weekend has rejected the Manchester United star’s offer to meet him and attend a match at Old Trafford.
Ms Kelly says she has no intention of taking her son to Old Trafford to meet Ronaldo and watch a United game as she heavily criticised the Portuguese forward’s apology.
She told Sky News:
“I’ve got nothing to say to [him]. Why should I travel to Old Trafford? Why would ‘a Blue’ want to go to [visit] ‘a Red’?
“If he [Ronaldo] was genuine, I think he should have turned around at the moment of the incident, picked Jake’s phone up and been like, ‘I’m sorry’.
“That was the biggest laugh for me: ‘sportsmanship’. When you can do that to a 14-year-old boy. That’s not sportsmanship at all.“
