Cristiano Ronaldo is just the latest in a long line of bronze sporting busts

Tricky business, recreating famous sports people in bronze.

Sculptors' work in not always appreciated. Sometimes, like with Cristiano Ronaldo's likeness on Wednesday, it is ridiculed. https://twitter.com/BeardedGenius/status/847066637463404544 How does it match up to other sporting efforts?   Sonia O'Sullivan's rendering in bronze in her home town of Cork garnered quite a reaction when it was unveiled in 2015. https://twitter.com/irishathletics/status/645607745572483072 Initial responses to the bronze sculpture were mixed... https://twitter.com/DonnaIRL/status/645687942091030529 https://twitter.com/RunNova/status/645941414476558336 https://twitter.com/nialloloughlin/status/645944060323196928 ...But the O'Sullivan statue, and Ronaldo, follows in a long line of sporting sculptures that divide public opinion. Some, like Nickey Rackard in Wexford Town, Michael Jordan in Chicago and baseball legend Ty Cobb in Detroit receive universal approval. https://twitter.com/gaanostalgia/status/503325685071769600 While others prove far less popular - such as the fishing Jack Charlton in Cork Airport, the terrifying 'likeness' of Usain Bolt in Kingston and statuesque Diego Maradona in Buenos Aires. The best we can hope for is, that when they made some of those, they broke the mould.