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Cristiano Ronaldo & The Boss, A disgusting Act or Calling out Martina Navratilova. One is a lie!

Mark Holburn
6 min readJul 24, 2022
Image by John Hain from Pixabay

Some writing challenges are just a bit too challenging! After sweating and deliberating over Paul Combs writing prompt listing your favourite film for every year you have been alive, I thought I would lie low for a bit. However, when he tagged me with the challenge to make three statements about something in my life, but one has to be a lie, I just couldn’t resist such a fun event.

This is a sort of Medium version of Would I lie To You? which is a UK TV show with one of my favourite comedians Lee Mack. I have so far read some brilliant prompts on this from Paul Combs, Alex Markham, and the The Celtic Chameleon who I believe initiated this ingenious prompt. We have suffered a horrible virus that has caused major grief spreading throughout the world, but this is one fun prompt I hope that spreads quickly amongst lots of Medium writers. I would particularly like to read ones from my other favourite writers Simon Dillon, Pierce McIntyre, Inge E. Knudsen, Eric Pierce and Alexei Sorokin.

Below are my three statements and you have to decide which one is a lie and then let me know in the comments. Like the others, I will reveal the answer in an updated article.

1. Cristiano Ronaldo…

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Mark Holburn
Mark Holburn

Written by Mark Holburn

Lover of music, sport, animals, humour, movies and decency. A Level in Film Studies.

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