He looks a wonderfully pure modern footballer, blessed with speed, power and driving intelligence.
"I was looking for a blessing," he said.
But Torres and Gerrard still looked capable of cutting through United's central defence at will, and Vidic's dismissal, by no means a turning point in the match and with Gerrard clear to shoot, looked like a blessing for him.
This may look like a blessing, but it comes at price.
For the cynical investor, this could come off as looking like a blessing in disguise a chance to snap up some choice beachside real estate for next to no money.
But that would be to forget Everything You Know, Heller's first novel, and a critical reception that makes Richard Littlejohn's aside at the British Press Awards look like a blessing from Mother Theresa.
However, being blessed with Christ-like looks, a magnetic pensive stare and flowing locks, he was soon spotted for a mid-Wales Passion play in 1998.
Today the old affront looks more like a blessing.
As it wouldn't look right for a blessing of mobile unicorns to live in a stable, we've put them in one of our valuation pyramids.
I asked the rather stern looking monk for a blessing and after reciting a few prayers, Akhyuk Rinpoche reached towards his chest and pulled from his bare skin a ringsel, a kind of pearl-like relic that is often found in cremation pyres of saints.
