You always here that peripheral vision and reaction time are essential to an athlete. Most athletes are also overgrown adolescents. This is where video games come in. Athletes are to video games like overworked stock brokers are to brothels. Yet, while most athletes allocate insane amounts of time devising meticulous stratagems for Madden or FIFA Soccer, Manchester United star Cristiano Ronaldo enjoys the tranquility of a…Bingo game?

“It can be very exciting because you can be there waiting for a long time for just the one number to make the game complete,” he told a sports paper back in his homeland, Portugal. “Then you see one of your friends you are playing against get his lucky number before you.”

Um. Are we still talking about Bingo? It doesn’t sound like he’s talking about Bingo. But we guess this is what people with insane skill and tons of money do for fun. United people seem happy.

“Cristiano playing bingo comes as absolutely no surprise to us.

“Like the other lads, he’s got just about every games console going and loves playing those.

“At the moment the other lads are really into their Nintendo Wii games. They have tournaments against each other. But the players know they mustn’t risk injuries by playing them too long.

“Perhaps they would be safer playing bingo like Cristiano.”

Just remember to wear rubbers take breaks, fellas.

Ronaldo and two fat ladies [Daily Star]
Image [Daily Mail]