Ronaldo’s genius reminds fans of United’s Best days

THE papers were full of Mark Hughes’s not-so-subtle touting for the top OT job before kick-off on Sunday — very similar in tone, it must be said, to his sniffing around Big Sam’s seat the week before.

Unhappy at Ewood, Mark?! Can’t blame him, really. For a man used to the metropolitan swish of Manchester, Barcelona and Munich, the bestial moors of that grim corner of Lancashire must be less than thrilling.

If he does succeed Fergie, he will have to drop the rough-house stuff of course. Readers will know I am not the lilly-livered complaining type when it comes to opposition physicality but Rovers were over-the-top on Sunday.