It had long been a case of when rather than if, and last weekend Wayne Rooney netted his 250th Manchester United goal to become the club's all-time record goalscorer, surpassing Sir Bobby Charlton. The historic moment came late on against Stoke, with the attacker's free-kick equaliser for Jose Mourinho's side avoiding what would have been a top-four-challenge-damaging defeat at the Bet365 Stadium.

Rooney gets a hard time. Granted, the now 31-year-old former Everton trainee hasn't scaled the heights many predicted he would when he burst onto the scene as a teenager, but he has enjoyed a glittering career, winning a haul of top medals in Manchester while also becoming England's all-time leading scorer.

His credentials as one of the game's greats, then, should not really be questioned, so we thought we'd have a look back at his Man United 250 to see how, when and where he put together the building blocks to make history.

Without further ado, here is Rooney's massive achievement broken down into numbers. It really is fascinating, even we do say so ourselves!

Man for the big occasion

As the breakdown above shows, Rooney has been doing it on the biggest stage for his whole career. While a chunk of his league goals have come against opposition of lower quality, he's regularly popped up for the Red Devils in big matches, scoring 24 times from the last eight onwards in major competitions. As well as this, he's decided 82 results with his goals, winning untold numbers of points for managers such as Sir Alex Ferguson, David Moyes, Ryan Giggs, Louis van Gaal and Jose Mourinho.

Better than your average...

The Rooney of the past two seasons has been a pale imitation of the player that lit up games in the mid-to-late 2000s and early 2010s, which somewhat clouds judgement when looking at his goalscoring quality. But, the above infographic shows his averages and all-time bests, and they really are impressive.

Breaking the 30-goal mark in a season is the true bar to judge a top, top striker on, and Rooney did that in 2009/10, while an all-time worst return of 14 is still better than most top-tier goal-getters manage in a good campaign. Calculated as an average, Rooney guarantees 19-a-season, which he has complimented with eleven assists, scores 2.4 match-winning-goals a season and claims a goal or assist every 111 minutes of game time.

How and when...

Some serious number-crunching above shows a breakdown of how and when Rooney has scored his 250 Man United goals, and it paints an interesting picture. Indeed, there's little difference between his first and second-half returns, showing that he's a threat through a full 90 minutes, while 33 penalties and eight free-kicks show that he's been a set-piece threat - no mean feat when he was sharing these duties with Cristiano Ronaldo and Ryan Giggs for much of his Man United career.

All competitions...

As you would expect, Rooney has netted in a host of competitions through his glittering Man United career. Indeed, he's scored and assisted regularly in all domestic efforts, while also managing to find the net and set up team-mates in European matches at both Champions League and Europa League level, showing that he can adapt his game to any tournament against any type of opposition.

Villain in north London

A glance across Rooney's record vs. the Premier League's current top six shows that he must not be popular in the north of London. The 31-year-old has managed an impressive 22 goals and eleven assists against Arsenal and Spurs altogether and helped Man United take 54 points off the Gunners over the years. Interestingly, he's struggled to make a personal impact against his bitterest of rivals, Liverpool, with only six goals and four assists, but he has been on the pitch for a number of momentous results against his Manchester team's great enemies - City.