Pitch woes

Fergie aint happy about the state of the Old Trafford pitch, it did look a bit of a mess by the end of Sunday it has to be said.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/article740874.ece

Nani vows to be a hit
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/article742935.ece
I don't know whether he is going to be a top player or not to be honest. He has the talent, but so far I'm not sure that he has the temperament to be a success at Old Trafford.

David Conn gets down to the bottom line on Liverpool's financial situation
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/article742935.ece

More nautical misadventures, this time from the present day German navy,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/0,,2248927,00.html


It looks like slick Willie isn't doing much for his marriage again
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections08/barackobama/story/0,,2248578,00.html
I am not convinced by either of them, but obviously hope which ever one gets the nomination goes on to win the presidency. And i think Obama has more chance of doing that. But what will whoever wins inherit,
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/hamish-mcrae/hamish-mcrae-the-swagger-has-gone-but-what-comes-next-775620.html
I don't for a minute, believe that Clinton once in power would be a protectionist. Yet more playing to the gallery from her

Stanislav Belkovsky says we should stop viewing Putin as an ex KGB apparatchik and view him instead as just another oligarch, defending the interests of his fellow crooks, sorry businessman.
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/stanislav_belkovsky/2008/01/putin_no_secret_policeman.html
I have noticed how Abramovitch gets quoted more and more on these articles about the power games in the Kremlin as on of the key figures in the regime. Is that good or bad for Chelski?

A taste of things to come, probably
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jan/30/nuclearpower.energy
If coal had been subsidised like that there would be plenty of still prosperous pit towns and villages