No surprise really is it. I still don't think we will ever see him on a football pitch again. All the evidence and all the rumours point that way, i'm afraid.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/article7014289.ece
The Glazer's bond issue fails to impress the city as it loses it's value already. All the clowns that bought them deserve to lose money. You would think they won't be in a hurry to go back to money markets after this embarrasment. It may even make a takeover easier, so i would say it's good news all round.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/manchester_united/article7013260.ece
A slightly more expert view from Andersred's blog
http://andersred.blogspot.com/2010/02/very-fact-it-was-twice-oversubscribed.html
Evra goes a bit over the top, claiming that Ferguson will stay as manager until he drops. The exact opposite of rumours and opinions floating about at the moment. Purely from a football perspective i would like him to carry on to oversee the likes of Cleverley's return from Watford and oversee the development of players like Diouf who looks like a very promising addition to the squad. Of course off the field matters could scupper all this.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/manutd/7154518/Sir-Alex-Ferguson-will-stay-at-Manchester-United-until-his-last-breath-says-Patrice-Evra.html
Newly revealed documents show Stanley Matthews and Mortensen were arrested in 1945 whilst on service. Not quite on the same scale of today's money grabbing football chancers is it.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/never-booked-ndash-but-happy-to-make-a-fast-buck-on-the-black-market-1889027.html
David Conn reports on the latest shennanigans at Portsmouth which shows this countries football regulators incompetence up even more than the goings on at United and loonypool.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/david-conn-inside-sport-blog/2010/feb/03/portsmouth-mark-jacob-premier-league
What was it Greg Dyke said about the running of the game in this country in the Observer on sunday.
" Football is the only "business", where you can be a crook, everyone knows your a crook, and you can carry on working."
It looks like the banks are getting serious with Hicks and Gillet at the other end of the east lancs road.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/banks-ready-to-force-sale-of-liverpool-this-summer-1887507.html
Anatole Kaletsky thinks the west has to rethink it's model of capitalism if democarcy and liberalism can compete with the authoritarian anti democratic Chinese model. I completely agree with that but worry that the neo cons will dominate the agenda instead of the liberal social democrat left. If they are left to do the running i have no doubt they will. But have we got a Keynes, Beveridge or a Lloyd George on the left these days.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/anatole_kaletsky/article7014090.ece
Israeli historian attacks Blair over his role as the middle east envoy.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/03/gaza-tony-blair-betrayal
Robert Fox wants the defence green paper to put Military needs over politics and give it what it really needs, ie helicopters, equiptment that works over aircraft carriers and the like. It's not going to happen and he knows it as well as anybody. And that probably won't change even if the Tories get in. The skilled jobs that would be lost will see to that.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/02/defence-green-paper-war-uk
Steve Richards thinks Nick Clegg has been dealt as good a hand if not better than most of his lib dem predecessors.
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/steve-richards/steve-richards-liberal-democrats-hour-has-come-round-at-last-1888787.html
Simon Jenkins detests the popes views but defends his right to preach what he believes. And points out the hypocrisy of new labour on religion and their promotion of faith based schools.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/feb/02/pope-benedict-harman-equalities-bill
This paragrraph stands out
"Religion has been the curse of political reform in Britain since the middle ages. Turn every stone of history and lurking beneath is some bigotry, some tribal prejudice. The hypocrisy is often staggering, even today. The cabinet of which Harman has been a member for a decade has promoted and subsidised faith schools, allowing them to do what she is banning the Catholic church from doing – that is, use religion as a tool of human discrimination. Many people regard the consequence of faith schools as more widespread and communally divisive than the hiring practices of the Catholic church. Why is Harman doing nothing to end them?"
A little bit of the brilliant Aphex twin
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