best way to beat bullies

For Ronaldo is to get on with it say Sadler and Summerbee
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/manchester_united/s/1040217_best_way_to_beat_bullies_for_ron
Be a man my son

Queiroz apologises to Martin Taylor and Birmingham City
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/manchester_united/article3525381.ece
I should think so too, i wasn't too thrilled when i heard he had said that, it was cringe-worthy. I am not sure how Fergie and Queiroz thought they could get away with crying like that when the worst tackle of the match was obviously Rooney's and that's to somebody as biased as me. Leave the whinging to Wenger, it's not as if we haven't had our tasty tacklers ourselves. Most of my favourite United players were the sort to get their revenge in first, Whiteside, Jordan and sparky. They are beginning to sound like they want to do away with tackling altogether as Platini argued for, a number of years ago. I don't want to see it become a cloggers game, but it is still a game for men i hope. Bad injuries will always happen, it is an unavoidable outcome of physical contact sport. One of the reasons this present team will never be one of my favourites is the lack of a hard man or two. It has become obvious they can bullied out of a game every now and then. That didn't really happen with the 94 and 99 teams, the 94 team especially.

Fergie laid into players after Saturday as well as the ref,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/sport/football.html?in_article_id=530253&in_page_id=1779
That's more like it

Cheltenham starts today
http://sport.guardian.co.uk/cheltenham2008/story/0,,2264051,00.html


Taxes and the little people
http://crookedtimber.org/2008/03/10/taxes-and-the-little-people/
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/libby_purves/article3525100.ece
I agree with the argument about tax credits, though well meaning, it would surely be better to have people on the minimum wage pay national insurance and pay no income tax. What's the point making you pay tax and then the state handing it you back in tax credits. I would prefer everybody paid a little tax myself, just so you can say you pay your little bit towards the health service etc. But if taxing say five per cent isn't worth the administrative cost, then take them out of the tax paying bracket altogether. There must be a better way to help low income workers than Tax credits.
This is of course the last thing on an Uber Blairite's mind as Hutton urges the Labour party to be glad that people can be incredibly successful, Polly Toynbee tells him why he is wrong
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/mar/11/budget.economy1
But is she going to tell us to vote with nose pegs on again at the next election?

More economic bad news as supermarket staples keep going up, which of course will hurt those at the bottom, whilst those pleading not to pay a bit more tax, won't even notice.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/mar/11/consumeraffairs.interestrates

Mugabe blames everybody else as usual as he admits food shortages
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/11/zimbabwe

Credit crisis still going strong
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/carlyle-capital-in-plea-to-lenders-after-series-of-missed-margin-calls-794058.html


The Charlatans new album is available to download free on XFM's website
http://www.xfmmanchester.co.uk/Article.asp?b=reviews&id=602757