The season of goodwill? Not if your name is Berbatov

FESTIVE greetings to you, dear reader – assuming you are a blessed Red, naturally. May any eavesdropping Scousers-Bitters-Rent Boys have a miserable New Year.

I got most of what I wanted for Xmas – yet another swashbuckling display from The Spud Faced Nipper, and the delightful bonus of a dreamboat celebratory smile from a scoring Dimi Berbatov. Sadly, Santa failed on the “drown Malcolm Glazer in a sea of his own drool” count – but you never get everything on your list, do you?

The fact that Berba scored one, helped set up another, and this despite carrying a serious injury that’ll probably require surgery hasn’t stopped some fans from trying to re-open the debate about his worth to United this week, a debate that is becoming as wearily familiar as the one that used to split us over Juan Sebastian Veron.