A one-hit wonder, but no Number One

SO WAS it the greatest goal ever scored? No. Next question, please.

We speak, of course, of Ronaldo’s wonder strike in Porto on Wednesday night, a 40-yard screamer which had more excitable types talking it up as the greatest goal ever. And it wasn’t just the impressionable young ’uns, who might be forgiven for not knowing better, either. Even “Sir” himself hailed it as “sensational, a great, great strike,” adding, “I would need to go into the memory bank to think of a better goal.”

Now, I have no quibble with the first part of that statement but, as regards the second, it sounds to me like the Bank of Ferguson is in urgent need of recapitalisation. Now, maybe the gaffer was just being overly generous to a player whose ear he had reddened after the first leg at Old Trafford but, in truth, it shouldn’t take a whole heap of brain-wracking to come up with a decently bulging shortlist of more persuasive candidates for the ultimate accolade.