Hi all,

Apologies for the lack of posts recently. I have been getting into the old Christmas Spirit and with little in the way of real Manchester United action, I thought I would take a few days off.

I hope you had a great Christmas, too.

Of course, I have been reading the newspaper reports and have seen that we have been linked with everyone from Karim Benzema (again) to Kenwyne Jones on the player front and that Pep Guardiola is now being touted as the next manager.

About the only thing that seems to be fact and not a figment of some over-zealous reporter’s imagination is that Mame Biram Diouf has been granted a work permit and is now free to play for us.

Normal TRD service will be resumed tomorrow when we take on Hull and try to close that gap on Chelsea to just two points (Chelsea dropped yet another two points today).

I am hoping to see some good news about the injury situation before I do my preview.

See you tomorrow.