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Van Nistelrooy top scoring EPL star with all letters of word 'isolate' in name

  /  Geralt

If Boris Johnson's message to the nation to self-isolate was not clear enough, look no further.

Scramble the letters that make up Ruud van Nistelrooy's name, and what do you get?

Well there's the obvious ones like adventurously, intravenously, evolutionary, involuntary and venturously.

But those with some Scrabble experience under their belt would have spotted the word 'isolate'.

The Manchester United legend is the highest scoring Premier League player that has those seven letters in his name.

ormer West Ham and Manchester City star Trevor Sinclair can also make the word 'isolate' from the letters of his name.

But the 12-cap England international only scored 52 goals in the Premier League.

And the current top scoring player in the top-flight with the 'i-s-o-l-a-t-e' letters in his name is Everton star Leighton Baines, who has 32.

The likes of Malcolm Christie, Egil Ostendstad, Antonio Valencia and Stelios Giannakopoulos also feature in the top ten.