CRISTIANO WHO?

AN EMAIL arrived telling me Cristiano Ronaldo had gained 15million Instagram followers this month. There are now 564million people who can switch on their phones and look at photographs of him drinking tea or lifting leg weights in the gym. The email did bring me up short, though, simply because it made me realise I had forgotten about him. Ronaldo only left Manchester United last November and joined Al Nassr of Saudi Arabia on December 30.

He has already scored nine goals, apparently. I haven’t bothered to watch a single one of them. In fact I have not given the 38-year-old a second thought. Ronaldo (left) thought when he left us that the Premier League’s gaze would follow.

But he was wrong. It didn’t. Gone and indeed forgotten.