Ronaldo took things up a notch in the intrigue stakes by sporting a goatee in Wednesday's clash with Morocco in Moscow.The questions will start again and people will speculate and pontificate as though it matters and, of course, it does not.
Hopefully by the time you read this, normal service will have been restored by way of a home Wi-Fi connection, and I may even have shaved off my trendy hipster goatee.
The mother of all goatees, the classic goatee has become popular among IT professionA[degrees] als over the last many years and is also a favourite among metal heads.
And the man preparing to take it on the chin in Plymouth for the gathering will be Great Barr's Simon Sheffield, selfproclaimed Godfather of the Goatee.
As for the goatee beard, crazy specs, yellow gloves and black boots, your guess is as good as ours.At least Simon, 39, swept wife Emma off her feet at the Palace Hotel in Manchester.