Giggs the European centurion

It will take some player to beat the records Ryan Giggs is going to hold when he finally hangs up his boots. I was going to say it would be a shame if he finished with just the one champions league medal, but of course Scholes hasn't even got the one.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2008/02/19/sfnman119.xml

United may have to refund the £12 million they received for Mikel, if his old agent Andersen is found guilty. Though who would they paying it back to? What a joke that transfer was, and obviously still is.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2008/02/19/ufnche119.xml

Is Ashley trying to offload Newcastle United, if it was any other club and any other owner you would be certain there was nothing in it. Especially after replacing the manager and bringing in Dennis Wise and other assorted flunkey's in the background. But with that club who knows
http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,2257907,00.html

Jason Burke reckons the election results show that an emerging middle class is now emerging in Pakistan.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/19/pakistan.benazirbhutto1

The rich get richer in Putin's Russia as long as they stay non political
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/19/russia

Steve Richards gives his reading of the Northern rock nationalisation and it's political implications
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/steve-richards/steve-richards-british-politics-will-never-be-the-same-again-783974.html
That is the way i see it too, and he is right about the Tories total misreading off the affair. Where are their up and coming Ken Clarke's and Heseltine's, it is pretty obvious it is a party still in total thrall to Thatcher-ism.

Fidel Castro resigns
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/fidel-castro-resigns-as-president-784123.html
Although it as hard not to have some admiration for a leader who withstood economic warfare waged on his country by the might of it's northern neighbour, it's embarrassing the way some on the left try to lionise him. Just because he was a vast improvement on his predecessor the American puppet Batista, he is still a totalitarian throwback, totally unscrupulous in throwing people in jail for disagreeing with the state orthodoxy