PIRES WANTS TO BE RUUD

Last updated : 22 October 2002 By editor

After seven months out with a cruciate injury, Robert Pires is expected to take some part in Arsenal's Champions League clash with Auxerre at Highbury tonight.

"Other players got injured like me and managed to be back on top. I am thinking about players like Ruud van Nistelrooy for example," Pires told L'Equipe. "And when I see what he's done, I think, why not me?"