Financial wizards

The Glazer's are not. As analysts had predicted it looks like interest rates will be lifted by the 2 % penalty incurred for breaking the rules of the loan. Does this make it more or less likely they will sell. If the loan was structured by Goldman Sachs as guessed at in the comments let's hope that O'neill has some inside knowledge of what is really going on.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/manchester_united/article7130227.ece

Ferguson plays down summer transfer activity, there's a coincidence.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/may/18/sir-alex-ferguson-manchester-united

Even though he is selling Foster to Birmingham he still thinks he is England's best number one. I know this country is not blessed with great number ones, but we would be in an even worse state than i think we are if he really was the best number one. When i think back to growing up in the seventies and all the grea goalies that were around then, what went wrong.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/manutd/7738973/Ben-Foster-is-Englands-best-goalkeeper-says-Manchester-Uniteds-Sir-Alex-Ferguson.html

Fabregas to ask to leave Arsenal for Barcelona. The most worrying aspect for Arsenal are the reasons given. It doesn't seem to be love of hometown Barca but no confidence in the ability of Arsenal to compete for top honours. Seeing as though he probably won't walk straight into the Catalns first eleven at least that seems realistic.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/transfers/wenger-faces-his-worst-nightmare-after-fabregas-finally-decides-to-join-barccedila-1976278.html

Henry Winter on the white elephant that is Wembley. There isn't a sentence of that i can quibble with. They have really got what they deserved and i wouldn't mind on us missing out on the world cup if that proves another disaster for that incompetent organisation.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup-2010/teams/england/7734538/Henry-Winter-Wembley-would-be-fitting-tombstone-when-the-day-comes-to-bury-FA.html
If they did win the bid would England play all their games at Wembley as they have in the past. If they did, that would surely be such a big handicap you wouldn't be able to back them, even if they had a half decent team.

Geoff Boycott salutes the slectors for Englans T20 triumph on Sunday. It was a great performance and the best team of the torunament did win. It's a pity there are so many foreign born players though. Nasser Hussain asked Ian Bishop whether it mattered to him that England had three South African born players and an Irishman, to which he replied no. Fair enough, but it's more for the development of English players coming through the ranks i worry.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/international/england/7733768/Geoffrey-Boycott-England-at-last-use-their-brains-to-conquer-all-in-ICC-World-Twenty20.html

Simon Heffer really doesn't have much time for Cameron and his coalition.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/simonheffer/7737948/Only-a-Tory-without-principles-would-demonise-the-Right.html

Larry Elliot on the threat to the bank's credibilty of unexpected rises in the inflation rate.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/may/18/inflation-analysis-larry-elliott

Steve Richards writes about the coalitions idea's for rolling back the state.
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/steve-richards/steve-richards-this-is-a-sincere-and-coherent-vision-for-rolling-back-the-state-but-will-it-work-1976425.html

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