Ronaldo boost fails to lift Mourinho’s sullen mood

THE trouble with Jose Mourinho is that you never know if what you see is what you get — like the boy who cried wolf, he has played his mind games so often that you don’t know when he is lying any more.

So when Mourinho said last week that Cristiano Ronaldo was effectively out of Real Madrid’s Champions League quarter-final first leg against Tottenham, nobody believed him. And surprise, surprise, the Portguese winger came through a training session in the warm Madrid sun yesterday to prove his fitness for tonight’s game.

It might have been a huge boost for Madrid, but the news did not do much for his manager’s mood, which was more moody than mischievous.