AND MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU TOO

From today’s Guardian:

Manchester United's Christmas party turned ugly on Wednesday night, it has emerged today, with Ryan Giggs allegedly squaring up to benchwarming bit-part goalkeeper Roy Carroll in a trendy city centre bar.

According to reports, the pair had to be separated as tempers boiled over in the early hours and the pair were seen "nose to nose and swearing at each other".

Had security not intervened - deploying calming tactics over most bouncers' more commonly favoured head-first-exit-through-solid-door technique - the feisty pair may even have come to blows or made references to one another's parentage.

One unnamed onlooker told today's Daily Mirror:

"It was all pretty nasty but they didn't actually come to blows. I think drink had played its part. It was handbags at dawn but when Sir Alex Ferguson finds out he'll no doubt be less than pleased."

No sign of what was to come in Mulligans where one RI staffer was on a bash of his own while the team were in though Giggs probably wasn’t pissed then, he’s certainly got a bit of “form” hasn’t he?