Friday night to be 
low on highlights

There's plenty of hype about Premier League football being played on a Friday but I'll be treating Aston Villa versus Manchester United just like any other game.

A light training session in the morning, a big plate of pasta for lunch, then wander into the living-room wearing a massive pair of headphones and settle down on the sofa for some ultra-shrewd punting.

Swimming against the tide is often a wise punting policy so I'm ignoring the fact that eight of the last ten league meetings between these teams have featured over 2.5 goals.

It's been such a high-scoring fixture that even Tom Cleverley and Radamel Falcao have managed to find the net in the past couple of seasons.

But United didn't look particularly fluent in attack against Spurs, when Kyle Walker prodded the only goal past his own goalkeeper, and Villa weren't quite as flaky as I'd expected in their 1-0 win at Bournemouth.

So under 2.5 goals could be the best bet in this one, allowing grumpy sods up and down the land to moan: “That's why you shouldn't play top-flight football on a Friday night”.