Manchester United striker Robin van Persie is keen to finally get his hands on the Premier League trophy.
Floating
This season's triumph ends a quest for league honours that began at Feyenoord, when Van Persie was an 18-year-old and started the Dutch outfit's UEFA Cup final win over Borussia Dortmund.
"As a youth player I was used to winning trophies, right through from Under-12s to Under-18s," he said.
"Won won the UEFA Cup at Feyenoord three months after I started and I remember thinking 'Okay, this will happen every year'.
"But I've realised it is not that simple.
"I had to wait a long time to be a champion but it tastes lovely. I feel like I am floating on a cloud."
Van Persie missed out to Gareth Bale in the voting for the PFA and FWA awards which he collected last season.
As consolation it seems certain Van Persie will end up with the Premier League Golden Boot for the second year running.
Although Bale has an extra game to play, he is presently five adrift of Van Persie's 25 goals, with Luis Suarez now out of the race due to his 10-game suspension.
Not that Van Persie regards the Golden Boot prize as a personal honour anyway.
"In a way, it is not an honest award," he said. "Even if you end up with the most goals in a season, those goals are the team's goals and many will have been made possible by other players.
"They should make a Golden Boot for the whole team.
"It would be nice (to win it), but the main thing for me was to win the league.
"Even if I'd scored half the number of goals and we'd won the league I would still have been happy."
