Football £3million in debt

Unfortnately the biggest share of that is probably at Old Trafford. I am glad i am not one of the silent majority that said it didn't matter who owned the club and that it was all politics. The day the Glazers took over was probably the worst day i have experienced being a United fan but when i think back to going to the ground after the Irish had sold out and how ever many of us that there were there protesting it makes me proud of us as a set of supporters that we didn't turn round and take our trousers and bend over down like every other set of fans has, the honourable exeption being Arsenal.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/oct/07/footballpolitics.premierleague

Richard Williams on hedge funds, debt and the national game.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2008/oct/07/premierleague.westhamunited

AIG, they still don't get it. I doubt they ever will, it would take a Russian revolution to temper their extravagance.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/oct/07/creditcrunch.useconomy

A decent article by Jeff Randall in the Telegraph, i'm not a fan of his or the Torygraph needless to say but he looks like he has predicted some of today's problems. What are his solutions though?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/jeffrandall/3112269/Why-propping-up-banks-will-not-rescue-a-debauched-financial-system.html

There is no alternative, remember her asks Mick Hume
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/5767/

Ruth Sutherland in the observer on sunday, she wasn't wrong
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/oct/05/uk.recession.economics


Music
Burial - Untrue: I can see why some thought this should win the mercury prize award, if it is innovation you look for in the album to win that award it probably should have. It certainly is a good album with a lot of sounds taking electronic music into new territory.
Dennis Wilson - Pacific ocean blue: This reissue is regarded as the beach boys drummers masteriece, and if you like californian soft rock, country rock, call it what you will you will certainly like this. I saw it compared to Gene Clark's No other, another US west coast album i love. It certainly is good enough to compare to that, there is possibly more going on musically in this than there was in that. Strange seeing as he was only the drummer in the Beach boys and drummers aren't exactly renowned as musical geniuses, but true.
Maximo park - Our earthly pleasures:The follow up to the brilliant debut A certain trigger. It's not quite as good as the first but it's still alright. Girls who plays guitars get's it off to a good start but it doesn't really hit the hights of the debut as there just aren't as many killer tunes.
Neon Neon - Stainles style: A collaboration between Gruff Rhys of the Super Furry Animals ( one of my favouite groups of the last couple of decades ) and Boom Bip the US producer. As you might imagine this plays to the Super furry mans poppier and techno side. As with quite a lot of recent indie techno efforts, it's heavily 80's influenced. It's pretty good, there are loads of catchy tunes with rap, 80's techno and pop all in the mix. I love the track Michael Douglas amongst others.
Otis Taylor - Recapturing the banjo: The US blues multi instrumentalist attempts to recapture the banjo's african heritage from the hillbilly connotations we have come to associate it with ( deliverance to be exact ). Successfully in my opinion, he even does a cracking version of Hey Joe with the banjo well to the fore in the mix.
The Subways - All or nothing: Power pop all the way from Welwyn garden city. This owes all it's inspiration to the other side of the pond, with echoes of the the grunge of producer Butch Vig's grunge glory era. They have been compared to Ash which is no bad thing in my eyes. Tracks like Kalifornia and Alright just make you want to jump up and down.

I have just finishing re watching Ken Burns presents The West. It is still a tremendous series but it felt weird watching it whilst the United States is going through it's present travails. Mind you the way the west was mythologisided reminds you of why they were so susceptible to the lies of wall street and the super rich. I would love to see a series of this magnitude about the history of the United States or even the north American continent in it's entirity.