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United's supreme stylist writes new chapter in champions saga

Admit it: he's been brilliant. If last season was about Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney, then this season has really mainly been about Ronaldo. His goal tally piling up game after game, the posturing around free-kicks and then the dispatching of those free-kicks, cannonball-style, into the top corner. The expectation that something will happen every time he gets the ball; the anticipation of having a real superstar on the pitch.

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Watford 0 Hull City 2: Barmby puts Hull in sight of a first Wembley final

Dean Windass is 39 years old and Nick Barmby is 34 and both were born in Hull. The pair might not feature much if the Tigers reach the Premier League next season but they picked their moment here at Vicarage Road, a goal apiece making almost certain that they will continue to shape the club's destiny in the short-term at least.

Rangers 3 Dundee United 1: Rangers fail to shake the Plain Jane comparison

From Pygmalion to Educating Rita, great metamorphosis dramas all contain a "reveal" scene where the swan emerges. But given that this SPL season has had such a varied blend of tragic, comic, tacky, farcical and epic moments, for comparisons with Rangers it is more appropriate to trawl not Ovid or Russell but Neighbours.

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