Wenger comes out with the truth about Saudi trip

He may be trying to wind up Fergie, but he is 100% right about the trips repercussions. Does anybody really think Fergie was happy about this, because i don't.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/fa-league-cups/wengers-taunt-well-timed-775223.html

Daniel Taylor picks up on the theme in the guardian
http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,2248011,00.html
It was there for all to see when they went down to ten men. United should have finished the game off easily, but their legs had gone, Evra was completely knackered. The glazers seem to get away with absolutely everything don't they. If we had lost this, there would have been no doubt where the blame lay, but United's players dug deep and pulled it out of the fire. Let's hope we don't pay for this further down the road as Wenger speculates that we might.

It's official the scouse are now in exactly the same boat as us. All the profit they make will go towards paying the debt the Americans took on to buy the club. As much as we can laugh at them, it really stinks and any political party looking for a populist move would bring measures forward in their manifesto for the next election that disallow profitable football clubs to be bought out with borrowed money. In fact i would say profitable firms full stop, but i suppose we would have to revisit the great depression to see the money men brought down to size. That or the Chinese and Arabs buying up all our top firms and financial houses, which is already happening of course.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml;jsessionid=CHZWT2MX0K0QZQFIQMFCFGGAVCBQYIV0?xml=/sport/2008/01/29/sfnliv129.xml

That other comedy football club show they haven't lost the talent to make us laugh
http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,2248462,00.html
This just shows what a clown Ashley is, as i suspected Keegan's appointment was a sop to the fans to try to keep them on board. How this will work, i don't know. Who has the final say on transfer targets, that is usually a job for the director of football. But there is no way Keegan would have took the job on surely, if he had known he wasn't going to be able to buy the players he wants. Knowing Keegan's history this could be his shortest appointment ever.

The Halle hits the 150 years old mark
http://music.guardian.co.uk/classical/story/0,,2248501,00.html

A totally on the ball analysis of the economic stupidity that pops up during every boom time
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/andreas-whittam-smith/andreas-whittam-smith-banks-invite-trouble-if-they-try-to-reinvent-the-wheel-774876.html

Sub prime misery gets worse
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/jan/29/subprimecrisis.useconomy
The stand out feature of this article is some of the states doing badly are the more prosperous staes like Arizona, California and Florida rather than the usual rust belt states of the north that always seem to get mentioned when times are bad. That tells me things are really bad.

Was Kerviel not the only snout in the trough?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/jan/29/europeanbanks.banking
That would be unbelievable

Thaksins man becomes Thai PM
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2248375,00.html
sounds like a decent bloke doesn't he

Fascinating article from Tristram Hunt in the New Statesman about Brown's visit to China and India and his vision of Britain for foreign audiences
http://www.newstatesman.com/200801240028
I agree with the comment below the main article, reliance on the city of London for the future prosperity of our country is bound to end in tears. Eventually these countries won't need the cities expertise, they will do it themselves, and where will that leave us. The sick man of Europe again probably.