NO to game 39

sign the petition here
http://www.fsf.org.uk/petitions/no-to-game-39/index.php?ID=&di=#namelist

Johann Cruyff is the latest to slam the idea
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/34736/Cruyff-blasts-39th-step
Of course, all these people no nothing about football, they are just Luddites

Giggs says we will win ugly if we have to
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2008/02/14/sfngig114.xml
I know what he means, you can't win the league playing dazzling football all the time. It doesn't exactly sound Manchester United like though, and it doesn't even sound all that convincing after three of the four defeats this season. Apart from City away where we didn't deserve to lose, all the other performances were very poor and what was worse seemed to become inevitable as those games wore on. And the common thread to them all of course was no Rooney, if he is not in the team and we go behind it seems it is time to worry. I suppose that is fair enough if we were playing against one of the top four or one of Europe's elite, but not the three clubs that have defeated us in the league this season. It is not the fact we have lost in those games but how. You couldn't see the 93-94 team going down without giving it one hell of a crack at the end, you always felt that give us five more minutes at the end of the games that team lost and we would have equalised. Saying all that i would take the most horrible 1-0 win this weekend, so i will shut up being a spoilt moaner.

Chelsea climb in to the top five richest clubs in the world, whilst we move back up to second behind Real Madrid for whatever that's worth.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/chelsea-climb-into-top-five-of-worlds-richest-781884.html
It is all a total nonsense of course how can a team up to it eyeballs in debt be classed as rich. If you earn the second biggest set of profits, but immediately have to pay that to the banks to pay off the debt, surely you are just treading water.

There really is no end to the malevolence of the Murdoch empire for this countries football fans
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2008/02/14/sfnfro114.xml
You might have known it would be a Murdoch man's idea.

Geoffery Robertson says we should say sorry to the Aboriginal Australians as well.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/feb/14/australia
I would have no problem with that, but i think more to the point would be educating our own people to the less glorious aspects of the British empire of which their were many. Genocide wasn't that far off what went on in North America as well. Remember the reason Hitler admired Britain as he did, was because of it's empire. The empire had big pluses like exporting democracy, the rule of law, the English language and sport. But at lot of people paid with their lives for these benefits that they never saw. Genocide, famine and the pillaging of their natural resources were usually the price paid by those peoples whose ancestral lands were painted red.

Robert Fisk talks about Imad Mougnieh, Terrorist, kidnapper and now dead.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/fisk/robert-fisk-bloody-end-of-man-who-made-kidnapping-a-weapon-of-war-782031.html