In anticipation of this book, and to placate my impatience at not having it in my possession, I read some reviews and soon noted the many instances where the word ‘detail’ came up (seven, as it happens). I became slightly concerned; perhaps detail was code; political internet shorthand for goes on a bit. Turns out detail, meant … detail. This though is not your garden-variety detail, no, this is deft verbal photography masquerading as detail. And how! The Promised Land is a land where players wear the tackles of their...

This is the point where I usually do a thing about JOS, or perhaps Wesley, scoring an own goal, but instead this time I’ve just decided to reference doing that as a way of padding out the introduction. I don’t think JOS is fit anyway, and so Wesley is our only hope … he is, as it goes, due one. The same words that don’t mean anything; arranged into the same sentences, and paragraphs. This...

And so, for really-real this time, no playin’, I’m starting to doubt whether Moyes does have what it takes. Yes, he inherited a team that was insufficiently stocked to compete with those other lot, however, he inherited a squad more than capable of defeating a Swansea side bereft of most (if not all) of its key men, at home. To have lost this game, knowing it was one of our few realistic chances of us...

T’would be daft for David Moyes face not to want Manchester United Football Club – the team he manages – to give the F.A Cup (another trophy!!!) a right good go, what with our tradition of wanting to win all the trophies, a tradition he upheld, in fine style, by bagging the Charity Shield early on in his Manchester United Football Club managerial career. Hooray!! But, put that thought on ice: we’re heading full-steam into the League Cup Semi-final on Tuesday (another trophy!!!)...

Y’know there’s a saying about going to the well to collect water on more occasions than necessary … that’s aimed specifically at Ashley Young, Danny and Adnan. Can’t help but think with Fergie around less, we’ll get less panalties. Which is probably fairer. Definitely a case for all three of the “diving” talking points going either way, and so if the referee isn’t sure etc… I finally got a score wrong. Danny with an another...

  Will Rooney take time out of his ticking ‘trying to find a new club’ off of his to-do-list/deign to cut short his family Christmas and turn up/recover from his “knock”? No doubt Moyes will try and marry … whoops, I mean play him either way; whether he’s still playing for us or not. Poor Danny. Will I get dressed today and eat anything other than pop and crisps? Apparently, it’s same old Spurs – whatever...

What difference a Danny makes, plenty ‘phwoars, title ours. Sing along! SING ALONG!!! SING A-LONG!!!! What do you mean it’s not a real song (and it doesn’t work)?! It’s on the internet, isn’t it?! Just needs a little more cow bell. That winning ugly/fortunately/undeservedly/etc-erally thing, that Fergie had listed under ‘hobbies’ on his C.V, is one of Moyes’ specialist skills. Y’know, in some ways, you could say, they’re cut from the same cloth. Danny was the difference. Everyone...

I know, I know … it’s getting a little scary/scarey now. Oh, I was talking about the black toe I’ve got from wearing ill-fitting shoes just before Christmas, what were you talking about? Oh, the fact I’m getting all the scores right! Of course! I had barely noticed. Really is proper good to see Fletch back, though that’s not to say he is the answer, or that he’ll be any sort of answer, or if...

. Tom (@Tom_McGhee): . Literally typing this on a phone, as I drive a 7.5 tonne lorry. It’s not ideal. If only I’d had a few spare days to prepare something better… Prediction: Going to go with 3-1 United if for no other reason that I’m trying to be more optimistic for the new year – No, Tom Cleverley IS a midfielder – and we seem incapable of clean sheets. In other news, I have...

  As I correctly guessed the Villa result and scorers, and then almost got the West Ham score and scorers too … I don’t know where this sentence is going, I’m going to abandon it. Was just trying to crowbar in what I’d done. That was it really. Hull are at that level of doing well – relative to what people may have expected at the start of the season – that we have to...