(CNN) -- Manchester United moved to within two points of leaders Manchester City at the top of the English Premier League with a 3-1 win at third-placed Tottenham Hotspur Sunday. A Wayne Rooney goal on the stroke of half time and two second half strikes from England teammate Ashley Young knocked the stuffing out of Harry Redknapp's men. Substitute Jermain Defoe scored a late consolation for the well-beaten home side, who had started brightly. Emmanuel Adebayor forced a fine save from David de Gea and had a goal ruled out for handball before Rooney took advantage to head home from Young's corner after slack home defending.

Earlier,
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Newcastle salvaged a 1-1 draw in an action-packed north east derby against Sunderland.


Paul McGrath found himself shouting in despair at the TV set - Manchester United had let in yet another soft goal. He tweeted: ‘Going to try to get myself fit and back into that defence!’ It was a tongue-in-cheek remark from the 54-year-old but how Louis van Gaal must wish for a player of McGrath’s calibre today. Indeed, so must half of the Premier League. McGrath is widely revered as one of the greatest defenders to play the game. His United captain Bryan Robson described him as a ‘Rolls-Royce of a player’ who just happened to need a jump-start on occasions.

He was 22 when
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Man Utd picked him up - ‘I felt like the luckiest man in the world,’ he says.


(CNN) -- Paris Saint-Germain's Zlatan Ibrahimovic has insisted he is not a "bad boy" on the eve of his latest return to Barcelona, where he lasted just a season after falling out with then coach Pep Guardiola. The Swedish striker, whose goal and assist in the first leg mean that PSG head into Wednesday's Champions League quarterfinal level on aggregate (2-2), suffered a disappointing spell with the four-time European champions between 2009-2010. Following a couple of years in Italy with AC Milan, the 31-year-old has now settled in France, where he tops the Ligue 1 scoring charts -- his 26 goals from 28 games nine better than his nearest rival.

"It was a childhood dream [to join Barcelona] and I was walking on air," the Swede wrote in his 2011 biography 'I am
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Ibra'.