IT'S good to see Owen Hargreaves fully fit again and ready to show United fans what he's capable of.

He hasn't got going since his arrival from Bayern Munich because of the various niggling injuries he's had to endure this season.

And no-one would have felt more frustrated about that than the player himself.

Throughout the saga of his transfer to Old Trafford, it was clear just how much he wanted to come here.

So having finally got that move, it has been disappointing for him and the club that he's been dogged by injuries.

Let's hope that his problems are behind him. The 70 minutes he got under his belt at Reading last Saturday will have done him the power of good.

He will be looking to produce the consistency of performance that anyone who saw his displays for England at the last World Cup will know he can turn on.

That will only come through playing regularly and starting regularly.

Compliment

I think it's a compliment to the strength of Sir Alex Ferguson's squad that we are top of the Premier League, despite having been without Hargreaves and Paul Scholes in midfield for much of the season.

It speaks volumes for the lads who have had to fill those positions in the centre.

But Hargreaves will be keen to play a part in Sunday's FA Cup fourth-round tie against Tottenham at Old Trafford.

United versus Tottenham has long been a mouth-watering prospect on the fixture calendar.

Whether a league match or a cup-tie, it was always a game to get excited about when I was a player.

Those games in the 1960s and 1970s were often high scoring and unpredictable.

We would beat Spurs 4-0 or 5-1, then face them again soon afterwards and be on the wrong end of a similar score.

You don't need a very long memory to recall that 5-3 win at White Hart Lane in 2001 after we had been 3-0 down at the break.

Tottenham will come to Old Trafford on a high after a 5-1 hammering of Arsenal in the Carling Cup on Tuesday.

They were superb that night, and it looks as though Juande Ramos is really starting to stamp his mark on the team.

Solid

It's fair to say that Tottenham have had problems at the back this season, but with Ledley King returning from a long-term injury, they're looking a little more solid.

Sir Alex will be expecting an improvement on last Saturday's performance at Reading, although a repeat of the result will do very nicely.

It's true that we weren't at our best at the Madejski Stadium.

But during a long, gruelling Premier League season, it's impossible for any team to maintain a super-high level of performance every week.

On paper, the Reading match would have looked a comfortable one for United, but life isn't always that straightforward.

But the really encouraging thing was that, as well as Reading played, and as off the boil as United were, we still got the points.

United have, of course, been in the Middle East this week, playing in a testimonial match against Al Hilal for former Suadi Arabian midfielder Sami Al Jaber.

It gave young Danny Welbeck an opportunity to get a run-out for the first team, and I suspect it won't be his last one.

He's only 17, but he is a striker who has been getting a lot of good reports around Old Trafford.

Somebody said to me that he has a bit of a look of Dimitar Berbatov about him, which is high praise indeed for someone just starting out.

I'd just like to express my support for United's decision to hold a minute's silence, in memory of the victims of the Munich air disaster, at the derby match at Old Trafford on February 10.

I know there had been some talk about holding a minute's applause instead .

But the club have thought long and hard about the best way to commemorate the 50th anniversary.

And I'm certain that they've got it right.

What do you think? Have your say.