The veteran striker ‘ruined the day’ for young fan Jake Harding, who was filming his leg cut at the time of the incident.
The mother of the Everton fan whose phone was broken by Cristiano Ronaldo on Saturday has claimed the Manchester United star carried out an “assault” on the teenager.
Footage of Ronaldo knocking the device to the floor began to circulate after Everton’s 1-0 victory over the Red Devils at Goodison Park.
Ronaldo later acknowledged what had happened and issued an apology to the affected supporter.
What has been said?
“At full-time the Man Utd players started walking off. We were in the Park End so we were right by the tunnel where they came walking past – my son was there videoing them all,” Sarah Kelly, the mother of 14-year-old Jake Harding, told the Liverpool Echo.
“He filmed all the United players walking through. And then he lowered his phone because Ronaldo had pulled down his sock and his leg was bleeding. He lowered his phone to see what it was – he didn’t even speak.
“Ronaldo then just walked past, with a terrible, terrible temper and smashed the phone out of my son’s hand and carried on walking.”