The Big Question

Back at the start of the season, the big question that was being asked by Manchester United fans was, after the sale of Ruud van Nistelrooy, with no new striker replacing him, where exactly were the goals going to come from?

In a moment of Dave Gorman inspired madness, I came up with a graph that would show this season's targets, comparing them with last season's performance. Quite simply, each player had to better last season's goal tally and for every goal above this that they scored, they would contribute to the 'missing Ruud' column.

Originally these graphs appeared on the Manchester United forum on the AfterHoursFC message board but due to an administrive error, let's call him Neil, the post has now be confined to the bowels of cyberspace, never to be seen again. So, I thought, why not stick it up on blogspot, where the many fans who have recently been missing their bar charts and graphs can pop in and track United's progress over the coming season. All two of them.

Ladies and gentleman, I present for you, the new and improved Ruudometer.