Very brief reflectons on a nightmare

I can't bring myself to say too much about the disaster that was Saturday, it was just absolutely horrrible. If we are honest we have been blowing hot and cold for a few weeks now, but never in my wildest nightmares could i have forseen that. I want to see Fletcher back in for the next big game. I was a bit worried when i saw the team and he wasn't in it and watching the disaster unfold i don't think there were many reds who could understand how Anderson had beeen picked over him. Ironically as i have read somwhere today Wenger saying United looked fatigued, we could have done with a midweek game to get this out of our system at the earliest opportunity.
I don't particularly buy that argument by the way, although Carrick has looked jaded the last two games. Vidic's first mistake was just an appalling blunder and as for the sending off, he got away with a similar challenge at Newcastle but did notgot away with it here, and there's no denying he had to go. The defence were just an unbelievable shambles by the end of the game. It was like Vidic and Evra at the beginning of their United career. The feeling at the end of the game was on a par with the City home defeat result last season though the this performance was even worse than that one.

2 match ban for Vidic
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/vidic-banned-for-two-matches-1646090.html

West Ham and Sheffield United reach agreement over Tevez affair
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/settlement-agreed-in-tevez-affair-1645987.html

Jon Stewart has Financial journalist/cheerleader on the ropes
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/tomleonard/4996824/Jon-Stewart-shoots-down-the-bankers.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/15/usa-tv-jon-stewart-economy

Bryan Gould on thw worrying future for this countries economy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/16/banking-crisis-manufacturing-decline

Max hastings on the tories problems should they win power after the next election.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/16/david-cameron-conservatives-election
Whilst i agree about the need for a new economic path for the country he neglects to metion that the Tory party is still made in a Thatcherite mould and the last thing a hell of a lot of those rabid free market right wingers will want to do after so long out of power is dismantle her legacy. I am still not so sure that they will win a working majority but even if they do it will be fun times watching them flail around.

Music

Coco rosie - Noah's ark: As out there as the debut album, this is definitely an album you will either love or hate. So obviously i would say it is pretty good, love it would be much too strong. There isn't anybody that sounds anything like them that i have heard anyway.
Koushik - Out my window: There is quite a lot of good new music coming out of Canada at the moment and this is one more album to add to that cannon. Chilled out electronica at times, pop with hints of jazz at others, it is a big grower.
Mercury Rev - Snowflake: Another good, but not quite very good album. I always like their stuff but they always promises a bit more than they actually deliver for me. Which makes me sound like i am putting them down when i am actually trying to say that i think they could be capable of an absolute killer album instead of merely just a good one.
Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted: I have known about this group for years but have never got around to listening to them, big mistake because i love this. I love this kind of indie rock, lots of feedback and not very polished production to be played loud. Tremendous album.
Stephen Fretwell - Man on the roof: The second album by the Manchester based singer songwriter and a pretty good follow up to his debut Magpie. There are traces of the usual singer songwriter influences Dylan et al, but his voice doesn't half remind me of John Bramwell at times.
The Secret Machines - Secret Machines: I seem to always see this lot compared to Pink Floyd in music magazines, but i can never see it myself. They always seem like a more modern polished version of Sabbath to me. This is good but not great, the tunes that work though are very good. An album to rank alongside their debut Now here is nowhere and a distinct improvement on the last disappointing effort.