Brown to leave, Larsson to come back?

I am surprised Brown wants to leave, but maybe he thinks he will get more first team opportunities elsewhere next season. He may be right if Gary Neville gets back to full fitness and some of the youngsters start to be given more first team action. The news about Larsson is totally out of the blue, i suppose he is just going to be a little extra insurance, covering the forward positions.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml;jsessionid=B2WFF404BFG0FQFIQMGCFF4AVCBQUIV0?xml=/sport/2007/12/19/ufnbrown119.xml
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2007/12/20/ufnlars120.xml

Ole to get testimonial, i should think so too. I don't really believe in them in this day and age, but if any footballer deserves it, Ole is your man.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/manchester_united/article3078099.ece

Tony Coton announces he is to leave the club
http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,2230147,00.html
He seems to have been a fixture at the club for a long time, he must have been good to have kept his job for 10 years

Gardener primed for FA job
http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,2229896,00.html
I have more time for him than i have for Gill after their comparative actions before and after the takeover. Or maybe not
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/7153958.stm

All is not sweetness and light behind the scenes at anfield, the credit crunch strikes again
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2007/12/20/sfnbon120.xml
And that news after another calamitous performance on the pitch, and off it from Benitez as well i thought, fancy not having another striker as sub.

There is loads of comment and tittle tattle about the xmas party and the fallout for Evans. Fergies not a happy chap apparently, i wonder who will get the blame,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/19/nrape319.xml
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/20/nrape120.xml
http://sport.independent.co.uk/football/news/article3266578.ece
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article604542.ece

It's looking like an appalling ending to a pretty poor series for England in Sri lanka as England are bowled out for 81.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/england/7153185.stm
England seem to be in danger of going backwards, it's hard to see them beating any of the major countries away from home at the moment ( i am not even thinking of the Australians, it would be 5-0 again at the moment ). The batsmen don't have enough patience to get the big scores needed, and the bowling attack isn't good enough when not in English conditions. Panesar has been disappointing as well, you can't expect him to do a Murali, but you would have thought he would have posed more of a threat. And of course no Flintoff.

A better than expected start from lib Dem leader as he announces he does not believe in god
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/libdems/story/0,,2230057,00.html
Although he started to row back and go a bit wishy washy after.

A prelude to the annual economic forecasts we will start to see during the next couple of weeks from Hamish McRae
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/comment/article3266602.ece