The mass backtracking on Ramsey expresses first and foremost the dramatic blooming of his talent. It is simply a fact that Ramsey is developing into one of the best attacking midfielders in Europe, just as it seems incontrovertible that Anderson will never live up to the scouting report filed by Sir Alex Ferguson’s brother, Martin, who considered him “better than Rooney”, which he may well have been when that verdict was passed on.