By Jacob Steinberg
On one flank at the Bernabeu stood Cristiano Ronaldo. Opposite him stood Jose Antonio Reyes.
Ronaldo was wearing the white of Real Madrid. Reyes donned the red and white stripes of Atletico,
but as the Madrid derby progressed on Sunday night, it became increasingly difficult to shake off
the feeling that he also should have been decked out in Real's colours.
Yao Ming is injured again. The Houston Rockets center, who missed all of last season after
breaking his foot, suffered a strained tendon against the Washington Wizards. The injury is to his
left leg. The Rockets have to be worried, especially since the broken foot that kept him out last
season was his left one.
It has been so much fun watching l'Arse fall apart at the seams over the last few days that I
had almost forgotten we have our latest Biggest Game In Recent Memory tonight. Victory tonight
would guarantee qualification to the knock-out stage of all things, and another chance for ‘Arry
to shoehorn a mention of "Two-Points-Eight-Games" into his post-match press rounds.
