Under-achiever Ronaldo can't wing another player of the year award

If Cristiano Ronaldo becomes the PFA player of the year for the third successive year there is something seriously wrong with the award.

The Manchester United winger would be the first player to achieve the hat-trick but he does not deserve it. If the fact that the Old Trafford club have five out six nominees has not already put many fans off who may have been interested in the award, returning Ronaldo certainly would.

Even Sir Alex Ferguson didn't mention the Portuguese when he ran through a list of his star performers this season and you have to hope that the players who vote have not been blinded by his past.

Injured, uninterested, theatrical and out of form in the first half of the season, this campaign for Ronaldo should be remembered as the one United managed to keep him for but little else.

By his standards he has let himself down and last summer his flirting with Real Madrid let United down.

If he wins the PFA player of the year, his fellow professionals will have let themselves down too.