Manchester United veteran Ryan Giggs confirms the Reds have no intention of giving up their position at the top of the Premier League. United are now ahead of north-west rivals Liverpool on goal difference - with a game in hand.

"Once you hit the front, you want to stay there," he said.

"We always try to be somewhere near at Christmas. If there are one or two points between the top two or three it is whoever goes into the last few weeks in form.

"But we know what the run-in is like, and there is no doubt we want the others chasing us rather than the other way round."