Whatever your personal views on the man who calls himself CR7, the numbers don’t lie. Last week Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 323rd goal for Real Madrid, meaning that the 30-year-old Portugese equaled Raul’s club record goals tally.
The true scale of Ronaldo’s achievement is only revealed when you consider the following stat however. It took Raul 741 games to do it. It’s taken Ronaldo just 308. It’s an astonishing ratio and is surely enough to make all of us forgive the winking and preening and grumbling for a moment and doff the our caps.
Or failing that, just clear the decks for 25 minutes and watch this brilliant compilation of every single one of his goals in chronological order. Put the kettle on.