From the Orient

Read That finishing Dutch to find out about the Manchester United striker, his life, his history and his mentality.

bq. On the night of 19 November, in the second leg against Scotland, Van Nistelrooy walked out on to the turf of the Amsterdam Arena with his international career in the balance. Kluivert was left on the bench. Seventy-seven minutes later, Kluivert replaced the United man and the pair embraced. Van Nistelrooy had just scored an explosive hat-trick as the Dutch destroyed Scotland 6-0. Deep down inside it was no longer just Van Nistelrooy who knew that he was the best.

I love this sort of article about any player. How can people prefer to read the crap in the Sun about sex and drugs, irrelevent to football itself, over intelligent articles with depth

Paul Culture