United clamp down on protest

Players banned from speaking about the protests, Pravda TV edited to take as much of a green and gold protest of the screen as they can manage. It becomes more totalitarian by the day.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/mar/12/manchester-united-ban-players-glazers

Gary Neville thinks United are lucky to still be in title race. I suppose you could say that but it's not United's fault that no team has took advantage of that. And with City, spurs and Villa all improving there are more potential banana skins for top 4. Or should that be top 3 as Liverpool will surely struggle to come fourth after monday night. Nice result last night, "thursday night channel 5".
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/manchester_united/article7059049.ec

Rooney claims he is a wiser player nowadays as he conserves his energy better after advice from Fergie. I did notice that he wasn't chasing every last ball on wednesday night once we got the first.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/manutd/7423139/Manchester-Uniteds-Wayne-Rooney-to-heed-injury-warning-as-season-reaches-climax.html

Gill tells us that the Glazer's are going nowhere as he announces a new Malaysian spomsorship deal.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/glazers-going-nowhere-declares-gill-1919991.html

Martin Samuel on the part Ronaldo's exit played in the excellent form of Rooney.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1257051/How-Cristiano-Ronaldo-s-exit-turned-Wayne-Rooney-real-deal-Manchester-United.html

Portsmouth's players do their bit to confirm your worst perceptions about the greed in the game, with two honourable exceptions.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/16380000aweek-footballers-fail-to-take-pay-cuts-to-save-club-cleaners-1919453.html

Pelligrini's days are probably numbered writes Sid Lowe as the fallout from Real's exit from the champions league begins. Sounds like the same old Real Madrid, great.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2010/mar/11/real-madrid-pellegrini-champions-league

John Pilger writes about the influence Murdoch has in Australia
http://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2010/03/pilger-australia-murdoch-media

Andreas Whittam Smith has a go at the government for the fetishisation of targets
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/andreas-whittam-smith/andreas-whittam-smith-there-is-nothing-as-stupid-as-targets-1920134.html

Eric Dolphy, some real jazz club stuff, i love it though.