Friday, December 7, 2007

United to honour Munich victims

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/manchester_united/article3013603.ece
I like the idea of the team playing in the original strip and with no sponsorship, but i would like the rest of the tributes kept to a minimum. When Busby, died the game against Everton was just about as perfect a tribute to a footballing giant as you could ever have at a football match. Sometimes less is more.

Gary Neville suffers another injury setback, but it isn't serious according to Ferguson
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/7132824.stm
true or not, it is not what he needs at this stage of his career

Fallon's race fix trial collapses
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article3231434.ece
As far as i am concerned a bad day for horse racing in this country. I can't say i am totally convinced by his innocence even if the prosecution's evidence was incompetent.

An interesting snippet from this Polly Toynbee article is a new website historyandpolicy.org
as to the article
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2223693,00.html
i think she is half right, i don't think there is any more crime now than when i was young, but she never mentions gun crime when she says that we are just as safe now as we have ever been. And that is one thing you can't pin on new labour, but i think it will be hard to put that genie back in the bottle, especially if the drugs laws stay as they are and we don't have full employment.

No such thing as a secure online computer, says Simon Jenkins
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2223526,00.html
And he is right, and the sooner that becomes the common perception the better.

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