Far too close for comfort

GREET the new year, same as the old year, as The Who almost sang.

A team of trundlers gave us a little too much to worry about for comfort; Nani and Hernandez have smoothly picked up from where they left off in 2010; and poor old Gibson is still being labelled “the second-worst Irishman at Old Trafford.”

And as the double-dip recession threatens, a grim portent for the Gimps: empty seats wherever you looked. No wonder they’re scanning the skies for inbound Arabs morezealously than any Jews have done since 1973.”