No decision on Gary Neville's career

They won't be discussing whether he will be getting a new contract or whether he will be hanging his boots up at the end of the season according to Fergie. I have to say i hope he retires, because you don't want to remember top players going out at the end of their careers with performances such as the one we saw against Leeds. What's worse you half expect it. He had looked as though he was gaining some kind of form before the injury against West Ham. But yet again he gets an injury and it's back to square one. If he does carry on, supposing the Glazers will stump up the money for a new contract, a big if at the moment as they make cuts wherever they can, i'd like to see him helping out the youngsters. In another report the Mail say he will be offered another one year contract.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/neville-retirement-is-nonsense-says-ferguson-1861807.html

Vidic out for ten days as United have ben finding the weather as much of a problem as anybody else
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/manutd/6950622/Manchester-United-defender-Nemanja-Vidic-faces-10-day-lay-off-with-calf-injury.html

The end is nigh for United's golden generation according to Oliver Kay in the Times, with Scholes in no rush to sign a new contract it seems. That would be disastrous, he may not be the player he was but he can still control a game better than anybody else at the club. Even if he can't do it against the best opposition thses days.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/article6979872.ece

City buy Vierra, why? he isn't the player he was Sam Wallace tells us in this piece from the Independent. As if we didn't knwo having seen him against us and against the scousers in the champions league.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/transfers/vieira-cannot-step-back-to-his-glory-days-1861258.html

James Lawton on the spectacle that is test match cricket, it's still the real thing for me. I don't often see the winter tours so that was a nice treat, i have to admit when the 9th wicket went down i thought they were going to lose.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/cricket/james-lawton-two-series-of-high-drama-show-tests-still-have-power-to-thrill-1860001.html

Mike Atherton slautes Paul Collingwood
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/cricket/article6979992.ece

New Manchester band Delphic get the thumbs up from the Guardians Alexis Petridis. I saw them on Jools Holland and they looked pretty good. The new order comparisons are valid, but unline the Whil whose debut album wasn't bad these seem to be the real deal.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/jan/07/delphic-acolyte-cd-review

British films to look forward to in the coming year from the independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/film-the-british-are-coming-1861050.html

Henry Porter on the over the top responses of the boys in blue
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/henryporter/2010/jan/08/police-britain-armed-response