United's reserve side beat villa 3-2 on penalties after a thrilling 3-3 draw that saw Diouf equalise with just minutes to go to win the reserve league play off. Even though it was a great game to watch, the football wasn't to a standard we have seen from previous reserve outfits. Macheda was United's best player without really shining as he tends to give the ball away too cheaply for my liking. But at the game went on he did show good character grabbing the game by the scruff of the neck and driving United forward. On the other hand for all Diouf's pace and menace, he doesn't half miss some chances. For him to have any chance at first team level he needs to have improve his conversion level.
Though Foster was the hero in the shoot out saving two and converting the best taken spot kick, his showing in the actual 90 minutes once again didn't justify any faith that he is capable of succeeding Van Der Sar in the long run. The third Villa goal was not his finest moment as he came and completely missed the ball at the back post.
http://www.manutd.com/default.sps?pagegid={B4CEE8FA-9A47-47BC-B069-3F7A2F35DB70}&newsid=6648614

Van Der Sar doesn't blame Liverpool for Sunday, saying they half expected them to get beat, If we come second it will be all down to us. The league table doesn't lie, we know that.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/manutd/7674198/Liverpool-arent-to-blame-for-Manchester-Uniteds-title-woes-says-Edwin-van-dar-Sar.html

United's security cover themselves in glory again.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1271820/Manchester-United-fans-refused-entry-Old-Trafford-prevent-green-gold-protest.html
http://www.imusa.org/newsarticle.php?id=271

Giddy alert, City will buy the cream of the crop if they gain that fourth championsleague spot. Has anybody told the cream of the crop though.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1271350/Manchester-City-reach-stars-summer-spending-spree-certainty-Roberto-Mancini-seals-Champions-League-place.html

I watched England's opening twenty20 game against the West Indies and was very impressed. The batting performance was superb with a great start, decent consolidation in the middle and a tremendous partnership between Eoin Morgan and Luke Wright to post what surely would have been a match winning total but for the weather and the ludicrous rule that a result be be gained after just five overs of the West Indies innings. The odds are so stacked in the team batting second's favour as to make the whole thing a joke.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/international/england/7675100/ICC-World-Twenty-20-Paul-Collingwood-fury-as-England-denied-by-West-Indies.html

A thick of it election special, Armando Ianucci laments the over the top media frenzy of " bigotgate ".
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/armando-iannucci-the-duffy-affair-turned-the-media-into-a-pack--of-shrieking-gibbons-1961468.html
Whilst Chris Addison writes that the election is exciting not because of any candidates or neccessarly even policies but because we have the chance to change the way our politics is run.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7114542.ece

Hain " offers " the Lib dems a four year partnership.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/hain-offers-lib-dems-fouryear-partnership-1961462.html

Mary Riddell favours a lib-lab coalition in the new parliament
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/election-2010/7674000/General-Election-2010-A-Lib-Lab-coalition-is-now-the-best-hope-for-Labour-and-for-Britain.html

Timothy Garton Ash writes that the institute for fiscal studies has been the big winner of the election campaign as the public still haven't been told by any of the parties how deep and savage post election cuts will have to be.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/may/03/economic-reality-hits-home
David Blanchflower disagees, saying the savage cuts orthodoxy will send us into a spiral of economic downturn.
http://www.newstatesman.com/economy/2010/05/spending-cuts-2011-growth-gdp

Geoffrey Wheatcroft writes of the historic enmity between the labour and liberal parties
http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2010/05/labour-essay-alliance-class

It's time to get serious on industrial policy and forget the argument that governments can't pick a winning industial sector to promote. After all it was us that invented the concept.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/may/03/uk-selective-industrial-policy

Bon Iver