Ruud is happy just winning

MANCHESTER UNITED sharp-shooter Ruud van Nistelrooy has no problem with being shoved aside in the scoring stakes.

Van Nistelrooy’s unerring eye for goal has become such a feature of this latest Red Devils side that, as Alex Ferguson remarked after Wednesday night’s win over Panathinaikos, if someone had seen United had won 5-0 and not spotted the Dutchman’s name on the scoresheet, they would assume he hadn’t been playing.

With 84 goals in 108 appearances since his £18.5m move from PSV Eindhoven two summers ago, the 28-year-old is now rightly regarded among the very best marksmen on the planet.