The Barclaycard press release tells us the results were awarded by a panel. That’s the easiest job since beer tasters were invented; picking Ron as March’s top man was the biggest foregone conclusion since Steve McLaren’s dismissal after ‘Umbrella-gate’.

You only have to flick through United’s matchday programme or club magazine to see how much of an impact he’s had. 90% of their match reports see him winning the man of the match award.

Predictable maybe, but it’s not as if the Red Devils are a one-man team; far from it. Yet
27 goals and the ability to leave the best defenders on their arse (isn’t it a shame Cashley’s not playing today?) is no mean feat. Put simply, he has performed with a consistency no-one has ever seen before.

Interestingly, at the age of just 22 Ronaldo finds himself eighth in FourFourTwo’s 100 Best foreigners of all time. He has a way to go to emulate some peers, like 16th-placed George Robledo, for example (?), but for impact and consistency over a season Ron is streets ahead of anyone in Premiership history.

Even Jon Stead…