Internationals are dead, long live domestic football.

It's been another substantial break since my last post, mostly down to having nothing to talk about and my acute case of football loathing there for a while. For the first time in a while, I was greeting the international break with relief. The team was clearly burnt out, emotionally, with tempers flaring during the Fulham farce.

Normally I don't take too much time for the internationals, keeping an eye out for Northern Ireland, England and our players but I actually found myself glued to the box for both of our internationals this time around. Jonny Evans turned in two Man of the Match performances, in my opinion, and that bodes fantastically well for Sunday where he will deputise for the suspended Nemanja Vidic. Hopefully Rio will be there also after limping off for England in midweek.

Also for England, Wayne Rooney found a smile on his face once more with a superb game against Slovakia and a good shift put in against the Ukraine, while his strike partners fell away around him. Heskey's absence from Sunday's game is actually a curse as the infinitely superior John Carew will now surely start.

Even Carlos Tevez found the score sheet as Argentina wiped out Venezuela 4-0, but then featured in an energy sapping high-altitude game as they were embarrassed 6-1 by Bolivia in La Paz.

John O'Shea was literally shedding blood for the Republic of Ireland's cause midweek as they scraped a draw against ten man Italy.

Ronaldo was rubbish as Portugal messed up yet again, Evra didn't have too troubled a time against Lithuania in either game as France secured two 1-0 wins against the minnows.

Meh, have I missed anyone? Probably have, don't really care.

So by Sunday we'll probably be two points behind Liverpool. How they hell have we let that happen?

Tevez to start up front on his own? Or perhaps we'll see Ronaldo play there again? Or Danny Welbeck? Hmm. Whoever plays, we must attack Villa from the off. They're on a relatively poor run at the moment and we need to put someone to the sword to get us back on track. A strong midfield with Giggs, Scholes and Carrick would be excellent and should be enough to control the game. Ronaldo on the right, Tevez and Welbeck up front. Or perhaps Park on the right, Giggs left, and Ronaldo and Tevez up front? This isn't even mentioning Anderson and Fletcher.

Even with injuries, we have options and we need to show that our lesser seen players are up for the task.

God, please just give me a win. I think I'll have a cider during the game, to take the edge off my hangover from the night before.

Going to my first ever wedding. Are they fun?