Valencia's annual Las Falls festival is no stranger to burning effigies of footballers not fancied by the local Los Che, having previously derided short-term disaster of a manager Gary Neville.
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The Valencian community was up to its old tricks again Sunday, mocking Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo with a poor likeness of the stately Portuguese star, ahem, dispensing of some gold football's while bizarrely resembling former Manchester United mate Wayne Rooney.
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Ronaldo's statue was subsequently lit afire and went up in flames, much like Valencia's season, with the Mestalla dweller sitting 14th in the table on 30 points, 35 adrift of table-topping Los Blancos.