Portuguese star fails true test of greatness

CRISTIANO RONALDO does not need to worry himself about his place in Manchester United’s hall of fame.

When the Portuguese is long gone from Old Trafford, his name will continue to evoke memories of his breathtaking brilliance in a United shirt.

Yet there is a hierarchy of legends at Old Trafford and those that scale United’s peaks of greatness have overcome adversity in order to gaze down at the lesser lights beneath them, forged their legend in the most testing of circumstances, and Ronaldo faced his moment of truth against Barcelona in the Nou Camp last night. And the harsh truth is that the moment passed him by.