Injury-free and in-form we won’t slip up again

THERE is nothing a columnist of any kind likes better than having his most recent point instantly illustrated by subsequent events.

So the only consolation for me in last week’s silly Danish defeat, and the extra cherry on Saturday’s anniversary cake, was the further proof that United’s 2006 team is best left alone to get on with it: tinkering and rotation should stay on the bench; as I prescribed last week.

Celtic away has suddenly become a night to gird one’s loins — and perhaps fear — when by rights it ought to have been the deadest of rubbers. It would be the cruellest yet most apposite of punishments for Fergie if he were to be robbed of his Euro-dream as a result of his selectorial mucking-about in Copenhagen although — hefty wood-touch — I think we can still safely say that it’s probably not going to come to that.