Unhappy at anfield

Benitez that is
http://sport.independent.co.uk/football/premiership/article3187052.ece
http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,2216143,00.html

Keano gets sbragia to join him at sunderland
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/2007/11/23/keane-appoints-ricky-sbragia-89520-20150189/

Sir Bobby Charlton wants O'Neill for England
http://sport.independent.co.uk/football/news/article3187053.ece
But i suspect O'Neil doesn't want the job.

Graeme Le Saux writes a reasonable article, as Keano said though, too many ego's, so who is going to do the shouting. I can see fat fwank bursting into tears if anybody has a go at him.
http://sport.independent.co.uk/football/news/article3187063.ece

A decent article on the growing divide between our pampered football stars and the fans
http://sport.independent.co.uk/football/news/article3187055.ece
From a United perspective the end of it was a bit rum though. The reason and i and a fair few others were glad when Beckham went was because we thought he saved himself for England not the other way round. And who started the whole celebrity footballer thing, another reason i was glad to see him go.

I watched the soviet union's last stand the other night on BBC4 and after it i wondered what Putin was doing at the time, it's hard not to think that he must have sympathised with the plotters attempts at restoring the parties grip on power. It is what he seems to be doing now, only more effectively than the plotters managed, for the moment anyway.
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/simon_tisdall/2007/11/a_singular_vision.html
It was a cracking programme, where the good guys triumphed, unlike the programme that preceded it, the Russian newspaper murders. The world needs plenty more brave people ready to stand up and be counted like the journalists that it followed. When you watch something like that it always makes me wonder how many of us in our comparatively cushy pampered lives would put our lives on the line in order to do the right thing. When you see Putin strutting on the world stage, and you see the reality of a Russia that seems to resemble a banana republic, you wonder what planet he is living on.

An article by Linda Colley on the unreality of our foreign policy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2215889,00.html

More crisis in credit markets
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/comment/article3187168.ece

Last year i did some work on my family tree, which was very rewarding, and pretty enlightening. Anyway a family from Canada sent me an e-mail asking for any information of a ancestor of theirs who had married one of my ancestors. So this afternoon i have been doing a bit of researching . The further back in the nineteenth century you go the more likely your relatives would have worked the land in little villages you have never heard of. One thing that always occurs to me is how the intellectuals of the day despised the new industrial towns, and extolled the virtues of the rural life. Yet when you look how they must have lived in the countryside, you realise that whilst the dark satanic mills were obviously no paradise, the countryside was no better. If a family were agricultural labourers as a lot obviously were, the chances are that if they had 6 children and they all survived ( and that's a big enough if ) they would all be born in a different village, as the parents travelled around looking for work. No wonder there was a mass exodus to the cities. And that is another thing i have discovered the younger members of a family would nearly always head towards Manchester, London or wherever the nearest city was. That's not to mention those who emigrated, which is what one member of their family did, leaving sunny Salford for snowy Canada.The movement shows how bad things must have been at times. Their family was originally from the rural countryside of Lincolnshire, then moved to Hull where one of them married one of my ancestors and together with with his brother and his sister in law and my ancestors brother, who my family line descends from, they next moved to Salford. ( followed that? ) Then in the next generation her grandad got married and decided to move to Canada. That's lincolnshire to hull, Hull to Salford and Salford to Canada in little over 40 years. I am pretty sure i have ancestors who emigrated around the turn of the century, but that will have to wait until i have got the money to really pursue that. I love doing the family research though, it is really fascinating