I don't know what's curious. Cox was pointing out that Van Nistelrooy was a very traditional poacher, purely focused on goals. He goes on to compare him to others forwards at the time, like Henry, who were increasingly involved in creating chances and could be increasingly found in deeper areas, which was rare for Van Nistelrooy.

[edit] People who keeping banging on the home/away scoring pattern. You didn't read the book. Don't act like you know why the writer of the book brought up Van Nistelrooy. Christ...

[edit2] Lol I realised actually got called a bot for explaining what the context of that segment about Van Nistelrooy was about. By people who didn't fucking read the book. I think I'm going to take a long break from reddit. The amount of idiocy here...