Brown and Ronaldo: The same man

The UK’s leading football pundit gives his view:

Paul Hayward in the Guardian:

About the only prize not claimed by the Fifa World Player of the Year in his six years in England was the adoration of the wider public, who loved his skills but not his ways.

Nor will his team-mates necessarily be sporting black armbands in their opulent holiday villas. One United player is known to have complained that "it's all about him" after Ronaldo's moody display during and after United's heavy defeat by Barcelona in last month's Champions League final in Rome. Insiders say he had become difficult to deal with.

It seems Brown and Ronaldo have much in common.  Both are moody, not liked by the public and difficult to deal with.