The So, Did you have a nice Christmas? Yes, it's good festive period eating, a bit more eating, some presents, the usual really.

Excellent. Well, I enjoyed the non-denominational winter solstice based festivities greatly with some eating not so much drinking a lot of

chocolate so I'm slightly concerned I'm turning into a giant piece of chocolate so

do something about that in the new year the football football's been all right, hasn't it?

The Sunderland game started off with an absolute barnstormer

over first 15 minutes.

Yeah, I mean, how many could the United have scored in that period?

Probably five or six, right?

It's one of the best halves of football we've seen from United in a long time.

And sort of one touch play, the movement,

you know, as its creativity, it was was all there and it all kind of came

together in a way that I'd say even in the Blackburn game when United actually did

score seven we didn't see the kind of flowing football that we saw

against Sunderland for around about an hour.

Now what do you put that down to what do you put it down to that it's all come

together so well? I guess the teams just hit a bit of form. I think they've also, as we've spoken about before, they've switched

Rooney and Berbertoff's roles a little bit. Rooney's playing an awful lot deep. I mean, it's just borne out in the stats.

It's more than just an observation now. He clearly is and he's

roaming, he's playing parts wide, he actually played very, very wide against Birmingham,

but against Sunderland he's played deep with a license to move and I guess that's just kind of helped

with the United's creativity problem.

Also we've got Anderson coming into form.

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