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Toe Poke awards: Ronaldo's statue, Messi's double, Pogba's emoji, more

It's been another weird and wonderful season. We cast our eye over the Toe Poke files to bring you some of the best (and worst) things we've seen. And there's really only one place to start...

Ronaldo's remarkable statue

2016-17 will forever be known as the season in which Cristiano Ronaldo was finally bestowed with the highest individual honour a professional footballer can expect to receive -- an oddly proportioned statuette outside an airport in his hometown.

Apparently created by a sculptor who had only ever seen Ronaldo's reflection in the back of a spoon, the bust was met with widespread derision and continues to provide gold standard internet meme fodder to this very day.