'.. in Ronaldo they have a new talisman. Before battle commenced, Sir Alex Ferguson picked his 19-year-old winger as the player who would most shine at the tournament. It was a selection mocked at the time. But then Ferguson knew that the boy he had brought from Sporting Lisbon last summer had grown into a man who relished the big occasion.
It was his bravery that most surprised those who had not followed his Old Trafford progress. He fights for hospital passes, he demands the ball when things go wrong, he never hides; not once does he stop trying to provide a telling opening. He was, in a tournament won by the triumph of organisation over individualism, the outstanding performer.'
Not so much for a teenager now eh Arsene?