Cristiano Ronaldo’s latest World Cup failure leaves one predictable regret

So this was how it ended for Cristiano Ronaldo. Not with the ultimate glory but a certain predictability. Portugal’s World Cup was curtailed in a manner that was all too foreseeable: with Ronaldo failing to score, with younger men being removed as he stayed on the pitch, with the sense their most famous player had been put before the team, perhaps for one last time.His sixth World Cup will be his last, he had said. In a career as long as his, history can repeat itself. Portugal went out 1-