Cristiano Ronaldo: Revealed – the reason why Portugal star threw a microphone into a lake

CRISTIANO RONALDO threw a reporter’s microphone into a lake today in an angry exchange – but you would be wrong to think that it is just because he is frustrated at how Euro 2016 has panned out for him.

The misfiring Portugal forward launched a microphone belonging to CMTV, a station which Ronaldo has had a long and chequered past with.

Ronaldo once sued and won a case against the Portuguese television station on grounds of invasion of privacy, and has boycotted the station since 2014.

He even refused to answer questions from their journalists at a press conferences.

It had been claimed that Ronaldo was asked whether he had seen his rival Lionel Messi score a sensational free-kick last night to become Argentina's record goalscorer, but reports in his native Portugal now suggest that it was his long-standing feud with CMTV which was the reason for the angry exchange, in which he grabbed the reporter's microphone and threw it into the lake near Portugal's team hotel in Lyon.

Ronaldo has endured a frustrating Euro 2016 so far, in which he was marked out of the game against Iceland and then saw his penalty agonisingly hit the post against Austria.

Portugal take on Hungary tonight knowing that they must win to progress at the tournament in France. Should they finish second they will play Roy Hodgson's England in the Last 16 on Monday.