TERRACE TALK: Manchester United - Getting on with the game without Wayne Rooney

One is usually desperate for something to fill the void left by a United-less international weekend.

However, 72 appalling hours glued to a TV screen watching the Paris attacks and their aftermath?

As someone who is half-French, and who spends most of his week in France, from where I am filing this, let’s just say it wasn’t exactly what I had in mind as a diversionary substitute.