Manchester United striker Robin van Persie has shrugged off the prospect of winning the Golden Boot.

Although Tottenham star Gareth Bale has an extra game to play, he is presently five adrift of Van Persie's 25 goals, with Luis Suarez now out of the race due to his 10-game suspension.

Not that Van Persie regards the Golden Boot prize as a personal honour anyway.

"In a way, it is not an honest award," he said. "Even if you end up with the most goals in a season, those goals are the team's goals and many will have been made possible by other players.

"They should make a Golden Boot for the whole team.

"It would be nice (to win it), but the main thing for me was to win the league.

"Even if I'd scored half the number of goals and we'd won the league I would still have been happy."