Rooney delays new contract until ater world cup

When he will be offered a a rise to make him the top earner at the club. Will there be new owners by then, hope so.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/united-delay-rooneys-163150000aweek-deal-1964275.html

Foster thinks his future might have to be away from United. If he wants first team action any time soon, i would agree.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/foster-resigned-to-manchester-united-exit-1962933.html

Gary Nevile admits will get what they deserve if Chelsea rap things up on Sunday.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/manutd/7682744/Gary-Neville-admits-Manchester-United-must-accept-their-punishment-in-title-race.html

As the "project" fails again, Mancini in for an anxious time to see whether he remains at the boo camp next season.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/manchester_city/article7117594.ece

Meanwhile Liverpools agony could be prolonged for another two years according to this Telegraph report. The way things are sliding there, they could be nearer the relegation zone that the top four as players leave and no top quality replacements come in. That could lead them to eventually beat our 26 years without a title run. I'd add something witty there, but who knows what we will face eventually if the gimps are not bought out.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/liverpool/7683267/Rafael-Benitez-faces-more-frustration-as-Tom-Hicks-admits-it-may-take-years-to-sell-club.html

John Ross explains that the conservatives seeming lack of progress during this election campaign is due to a long term decline in support. I would argue that core support as we have known it is pretty much dead, especially when not if, hopefully, we get proportional representation eventually.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/may/05/conservative-victory-long-decline

Timothy Garton Ash aks for a vote for the lib dems to modernise Britain and equip it to make the hard changes we are going to face in taking this country forward.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2010/may/05/election-tactical-voting-liberal-democrat

US economists Paul Krugman wonders how the economist can endorse the tories
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/why-endorse-the-tories/
Whilst Joseph Stiglitz warns Europe to reform the euro or bin it.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/may/05/reform-euro-or-bin-it-greece-germany
Larry Elliot describes the bailout not as a recovery plan but an economic death spiral
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/may/04/greek-bailout-economic-death-spiral
Merkel warns Europe and Germany's place in it are in peril.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/05/greece-crisis-threatens-eu-future-merkel-germany
Its been mostly her muddling response for mainly internal German political considerations that have made this crisis so disastrous. The irony that nobody seems to be pointing out, to me anyway is, the Euro was at the very least a partial creation of Germany. But Merkel seems to be going out of her way to destroying it.

Paul Mason has a very interesting and frightening take on the Greek crisis, it's impact on the Euro zone, it's impact on the cappucino generation and where do we go if we enter a double dip recession. Old school marxists must have a smile on their faces, what was it old Karl said "capitalism contains the seeds of its own destruction", could he be right.
As in global warming i believe than mankind will come up with an answer, but will a Keynes or an FDR arrive before lives are lost or countries are ruined. It must surely ruin any hope the chicago school have of turning the tide of reform.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/paulmason/2010/05/greece_strife_austerity_end_of.html

A clip from the 60's of the Beach boys in Amsterdam