Croatia 1-4 England : a turn up for the books

I only saw the highlights but it looked like they actually played as a team, Gerrard must regret being injured and missing out on this. I hope he is still injured on saturday, but i have just got a sneaky feeling he wil be miraculously fit to play.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/internationals/croatia-1-england-4-capello-vindicated-as-croatia-are-humbled-on-home-ground-925709.html

Burnham talks about the future of the people's game, or what was the people's game should i say
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/sep/11/sportinterviews

Liverpool stadium delay risks them falling even further behind arch foes United according to David Conn
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/sep/10/liverpool.premierleague

Elbow win Mercury prize award
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/elbow-win-mercury-music-prize-924682.html
Great news for a brilliant group, though i have to admit i am not really a fan of music awards.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/musicblog/2008/sep/10/guy.garvey.on.winning.the.mercury.prize

Music

Augustsus Pablo - Original Rockers: I have heard this before but not for ages and i hadn't listened to it much. I can't think why, i absolutley love it. More reggae than dub but still great.
Beck - Modern guilt: Beck delivers again, he has yet to make a mediocre album for me. Grittier than usual and none the worse for it.
Black Affair - Pleasure pressure point: The former Beta band man comes back with an album heavily influenced by 80's electronic pop acts. I wasn't sure about this at first but it has grown on me, but if i had to choose between this and his fellow former beta bandmates The Aliens album i would have to plump for Astonomy for dogs.
Paul Weller - 22 Dreams: I am not a fan of everything he has done, i liked the Jam but not the Style council. I thought Wild wood was tremendous but thought Stanley road was overrated and haven't really followed his career much after that. But i saw the reviews of this album and thought i wanted to hear Weller being experimental. I am glad i did because this is one of my favourite releases of the year. It is truly excellent going from one style to another without a drop in quality.
Sigur ros - ( latest ): It took a few listens, but it always does with sigur ros to get into their latest unpronouncable album. A bit uneven for me, but when it is good it is very good. When they are at their best, they aren't really rock or pop, it seems almost classical music to me.
The Juan Maclean - Less than human: Top notch electronica from the American Maclean that gets better and better every time i listen to it. Closing track Dance with me is an absolute killer tune, all 14 minutes of it.
The Travelling Band - The redemption of Mr Tom: If this is a gag i'm in ( double E.P ): I bought this at the spinningfields gig i saw them at a few weeks ago. It is pretty good, in fact it is better than i expected. The sound system at that gig didn't do them any favours. I can't wait for an album.

Hamish McRae reckons the econmic down turn has hit it's bottom and will slowly, very slowly get better
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/hamish-mcrae/hamish-mcrae-the-start-of-the-long-haul-back-924455.html

Time for tightning financial regulation argues Stewart Lansley
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/10/economy.economics

The democrats have liberals everywhere worried as the elction gets down and dirty, which is of course what the republicans are good at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/10/uselections2008.barackobama
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/michaeltomasky/2008/sep/10/johnmccain.sarahpalin
A bit early to be so worried but then again i don't have to live there and live under a party governing that's main vote base are as alien to me as the mad mullahs of Iran.

Simon Jenkins on Afghanistan
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/10/1

Richard Herring on hecklers, and how to deal with them or not as may be the case
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/richard-herring/2008/09/mobile-phone-story-audience

New labour politician takes the long view shocker
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/10/climatechange.energyefficiency
and the right view as far as i am concerned. A windfall tax is just a one year sop to make feel better, instead you should be taking the long term view trying to take measures enabling people to pay less on fuel bills in the long term. Whether that is what he ends up actually doing is another matter of course.

An alternative view of the bottle bombers
http://www.septicisle.info/2008/09/crying-over-spilt-liquid.html#comments