Ruud van Nistelrooy emerges as bookies frontrunner for Leicester City manager
Former Manchester United striker and Netherlands legend Ruud Van Nistelrooy has emerged as top candidate to replace Steve Cooper.
Dan Salisbury-Jones
Sports Correspondent, ITV News Central
Follow @dsj_itvFrom the Premier League to non-league, rugby to kabaddi, I want to cover whatever matters to our audience. It's also important to me to hold those in power to account and I'd love to hear from you if you have a story to tell. After many years on the road working as the sports producer at ITN, leading investigations like the British Gymnastics welfare scandal and covering major events like the Olympics and World Cup, it's great to be back in the Midlands. I'm a 'Shropshire lad', born in Shrewsbury and brought up in Weston Rhyn, near Oswestry.
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