Fergie aims to top his birthday joy

ALEX FERGUSON wants the perfect 70th birthday present on December 31 — to be top of the table.

Manchester United went to the summit for four hours yesterday after winning 2-0 win at QPR.

Fergie said: "If we're up there on New Year's Day, we'll relish that.

"Hopefully by then we can be around the top of the league.

"The important thing is to be involved at the top in the second half of the season."

Goals from Wayne Rooney and Michael Carrick were enough to wrap up victory at Loftus Road.

But Ferguson was far from impressed with the number of chances which went begging.

He added: "It was a good performance but I thought we were wasteful with a lot of the chances.

"Of course that's a concern because we should have had it won by the 30-minute mark. But their keeper made two great saves and we missed some other chances.

"If you'd asked before the game if we would have taken a 2-0 win, of course we would.

"But on the evidence of today, we should have scored a lot more goals and that kept QPR in the game."