Ferdinand back for Hull

I would say that this was the news we have been waiting for, but i think we will have to see him in a few games first. Will he be fit, will he be able to play back to back games. I can't help thinking not much will have changed. We really need him back to his best and playing regularly. When we have been talking about the players we will need to replace soon his name doesn't get mentioned. It should.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/manutd/7051513/Manchester-United-defender-Rio-Ferdinand-to-return-against-Hull-City.html

Tevez spits the dummy out, a lover spurned. Is he going to get some stick next week, i don't think he knows what he has let himself in for. It was going to be a charged up enough affair as it was.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/manchester_city/article6997725.ece

The Neville Tevez spat shows how much it means says Kevin Garside and that Tevez wanted to stay at United.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/mancity/7047810/Pantomime-spat-between-Carlos-Tevez-and-Gary-Neville-has-resurrected-a-citys-tribalism.html

A pretty good win for the reserves last night with United romping home 4-0 with an excellent hatrick from new boy Mame Biram Diouf. Solskjaer, who knows a thing or two about these things, likes the look of him. The first goal was very well taken and the other two weren't bad.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/manutd/7051089/Manchester-Uniteds-Mame-Biram-Diouf-has-fantastic-potential-says-Solskjaer.html

The bond issue will be successful acccording to the Times, but as they say, it will only buy them time. And for us it means ticket rises to pay their debt off. It means no funds to bring in the quality replacements that, may, be needed to replace the Giggs, Scholes and Neville generation. And let's hope it doesn't come to this, the sale of our best players and maybe stadium. It seems to be assumed once it has succeeded that Carrinton will be sold to another Glazer firm and leased back, once again leeching money out of United and into the bank accounts of that asset stripping, unacceptable face of capitalism families secret bank account's.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/manchester_united/article6997726.ece

An FT view
http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2010/01/21/131041/some-people-are-on-the-pitch/

At last the financial world looks like it has someone with the cojones to take it on. I hope he is deadly serious about this, because he will have to be if he is to win. At least he has heavywight backing in Paul Vocker. Amazing that someone with a hardwon reputation as a fiscal conservative looks like the man that will take on the irresponsible shysters of the financial world.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2010/01/obama_to_break_up_banks.html

Larry Elliot reports that this country needs this as much as Wall street does and that at last we hace someone in charge who has seen the light. It does seem that it took losing Ted Kennedy's old stomping ground to force the realisation, but hey ho, whatever it takes, it's the right move.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/21/banking-financial-crisis
I don't think this will affect the Glazers directly, but maybe indirectly?

The tories accuse labour of being out of touch over financial reform. It really has come to something when the tories can taunt a labour goverment over the dismantling of the Thatcherite ideological experiment.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tories-back-obama-banking-crackdown-1875767.html

Bank shares drop as finaciers cry wolf.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article6997968.ece?token=null&offset=12&page=2

Rory Bremner with a nice reposte, the greed and sheer chutzpah of these people is truly amazing.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/7049986/Bankers-complain-but-their-party-goes-on.html

Jeremy Warner ex Independent writer whom i am amazed now writes for the torygraph says this is only the beginning, here's hoping.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/jeremywarner/100003176/great-vampire-squid-pays-out-13bn-in-taxes/

A progressive view of the cadbury takover
http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/01/20/cadburys-and-kraft-what-the-left-needs-to-consider-now/

And the reactionary markets are perfect response from Jeff Randall
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/jeffrandall/7047272/Flaky-thinking-from-those-who-scream-foul-over-Cadbury.html
No progressive is argunig that foreign companies should not be allowed to take over ailing companies. But why should perfectly run British companies be taken over for no clear gain to this country. As for a huge slice of the price paid for the firm ending up in British pension funds that will pay our pensions. I think we can safely say that a fair chunk will probably end up on some offshore bank account where the British or American taxpayer come to that, wil see didly squat.