United sign Oberton

from Bordeax for £3 million as the pre season rejuvenation of he squad continues
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/manchester-united-clinch-obertan-deal-1737287.html

Foster signs a new four year deal as it would seem Fergie has decided that he will be Van Der Sar's successor.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/foster-signs-new-manchester-united-deal-1735547.html
I n the few games he has played he has looked as if he has the character for the role. The worry has to be the injury jinx he has suffered over the last season.

Paul Wilson has a go at the berties transfer targets
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2009/jul/07/manchester-city-manchester-united-paul-wilson
The funny thing is it seeemed to start so sensibly, but i have no idead why they would want to pay silly money for a centre half who seems to me to be permanently injury prone and almost certainly not the player he was. And Carvalho was the the real top centre half for Chelsea during their championship winning years, so to offer 30, 35 or however many miliions was asking for a column like that i'm afraid.

England get decent start in the ashes though it was nearly so much better
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/cricket/article6666558.ece
Mike Atherton thinks England has a great chance and i totally agree
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/cricket/article6662142.ece

Are there no alternate voices going to spring up to blow the bubble on the wildly over the top reverential reporting of the passing of Michael Jackson and that horribly scmaltzy memorial service last night. No Private eye, Francis Wheen or whoever to remind us that having young boys singing at the service might not have been in quite the best possible taste, as the late Kenny Everret might have said. He wasn't my kind of artist, though i can't deny he did bring out some great tunes. But his private life wasn't, just, wierd, was it.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jul/07/michael-jackson-memorial-los-angeles

Vince Cable in the Times
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6662355.ece

I have started to read a book about the first appearance of youth gangs in this country that just happened to occur in the cradle of the industrial revolution, Cottonopolis itself, Manchester. I have only read the first twenty pages or so, but it is absolutely fascinating alreadyand it shows there is nothing new under the sun.
http://gangsofmanchester.com/