Rooney and rio Back for Sunday

Ferguson says that Rooney has started training again and that Rio may join him. They will be both given the chance to prove their fitness for the trip to Sunderland. What's the betting neither even makes the bench if Chelski prevail at Liverpool. Nice result at Anfiled last night as their season totally imploded and an ex red scored the winner to deprive them of a consolation final in Hamburg. I'm not sure it was the best result to keep their morale up for the encounter with the rent boys on Sunday though.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/rooney-and-ferdinand-may-return-at-sunderland-1959073.html

Rooney adds the football writers player of the year award to his PFA award.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/apr/30/wayne-rooney-football-writers-player-year
Who knows a good world cup and their may be more awards to come. Messi did look a shoe in for the European and world awards but the way Inter shackled him over the two legs must put Rooney back in with a chance.

Gary Neville to get new one year contract. We're not buying a right back then, the management must be still hoping that Rafael turns out to be the real deal. Pre Glazer there is no way i would have begrudged United giving Gary Neville a year's extension as a reward for his dedication to the club on the understanding that he wouldn't play that many games as his best days are obviously behind him. Let's face it, he has done ok over the last couple of months, but that's it ok. He is nowhere near the fast overlapping for 90 minutes full back of old and he has had more than one game to forget. Maybe Fergie is confident the buyout will be successful ( no i don't buy that either ).
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/article7112529.ece

The volcanic ash has delayed the red knights putting the finishing touches to an agreed strategy to putting to together an agreed bid package to put to the Glazer's.
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/manchester_united/s/1238399_wealthy_fans_in_wait_for_red_knights
They can take as much time as they want as long as the plans for the future of the club are sensible and succeed.

Buffon won't be going to City, by the sounds of this, as the Telegraph quote him as saying " The best players in the world want to be playing for the top teams in the top three leagues, no more than five or six teams in Europe. It’s a very elite list and Manchester City have to accept the fact they are not one of them. " Ouch
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/mancity/7655677/Manchester-City-cant-attract-the-very-best-players-claims-Gianluigi-Buffon.html

Mancini must be sure of his position to start laying the law down to Tevez, or is this not the whole story.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/article7112529.ece

James Lawton writes that recrimations have begun in Barcelona. Unbelievable really, i thought the Catalans were a bit above that, that's no better than the clowns in Madrid.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/james-lawton-the-guardiola-backlash-begins-as-messi-misfires-1958469.html

A great result and achievement for Fulham, Fergie reckons Hodgson should be a shoe in for manager of the year, it's certainly the biggest managerial achievement of this season.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/european/ferguson-salutes-hodgson-and-fulham-1959106.html

Steve Richards analyses where we are after the last of the three leaders debates last night. Last night's debate was at the very least one too many, with the same arguments and same soundbites head yet again. If they are done again, each debate format should be totally different, say one on Foreign affairs, civil liberties and another on the economy and job creation. If the debates are not changed next time i predict there will be nobody left watching the last one.
I would like to see one where each leader had 25 minutes answering questions on their own and then the rest of a two hour show debating the points but with more time to get their arguments across without interuption.
Even though i would class myself as liberal or social democrat ( i'm never sure which ) i wasn't as impressed with Clegg as others seemingly were. It seemed his pleading for a new politics, we have to be fair and dissing the old politics started to get on peoples nerves last night. They got on my nerves on the first night. I know he was going after the non partisan voter, which might now be a majority of the population and that's seemingly what they like to hear. But in reality politics is about different idea's and whether it adversarial political system or a multi party plitical system ther has to be disagrrement and argument. You can never get away from that.
Saying that the reform of our political system, the erosion of our civil liberties and the reform of our financial system all see the lib dems as the progressive's best hope in this election.
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/steve-richards/steve-richards-liberal-democrat-leader-prevailed-over-the-three-legs-1958808.html

Martin Kettle seems to think that Cameron sealed the deal last night, time will tell, but i can't see that myself.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/apr/29/leaders-debate-gordon-brown-david-cameron-nick-clegg

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