Ferdinand playing with injuries

So says Fergie. A bit bizarre, one week he is having a go at him now as the report says putting his arm around him. It still looks like we have seen the best of him whichever way you look at it.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/european/ferguson-on-defensive-as-critics-write-off-ferdinand-1813675.html
A blip according to the guardian, yes but the worry for me is it's not just a blip with Ferdinand it's with Vidic as well
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/nov/02/rio-ferdinand-alex-ferguson-manchester-united

Owen doesn't lie awake at night thinking of England
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/manchester_united/article6900212.ece

I hadn't read that Ramos had been dismissed as CSKA boss. It looks like they are going back to the old Soviet model.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2009/nov/03/cska-moscow-leonid-slutsky-zico

Michel Platini, a football man not a suit who i have a fair bit of time for is interviewed in the Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/6488300/Michel-Platini-who-would-be-stupid-enough-to-buy-Manchester-United-or-Chelsea.html

The Afghan election that never was and never would have been according to Peter Galbraith
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/nov/02/afghanistan-karzai-election-un-west