The Glazer's exposed

Well i think we can safely say the " notoriously publicity shy family " will have absolutley loathed last night's edition of Panorama. Some reds on various message baords have criticized the programme as dumbed down, and i can't deny that, as one who has bemoaned the lack of a world in action or a proper hour long panorama programme. But i thought last night more than served it's purpose of opening the can of worms that are the Glazer's financial interests.
When you get no comment from the family, no comment from United and no comment from the FA and the premier league, then i think the vast majority of non clued up viewers will be able to draw the the correct assumption that things are not as rosy as the gimps would have us believe. It was almost worth the programme just just to see their mansions, Yachts and epecially their London offices. Though it get's under your skin to think you are almost certainly helping them to live that luxurious lifestyle via your attendance at old trafford, it's tempered by the fact that they would have hated seeing their possessions splashed all over this nations TV screens.
It seems to have created as much impact in the States as it has here and that is a real result. If the national and local press get to work over there, even more inconvenient facts could start to appear. If everything starts to collapse for them there they will be out of United like a shot. Wouldn't it be great if buying United turned out to be the biggest mistake they ever made.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/manutd/7812522/Manchester-Uniteds-owners-the-Glazer-family-face-fresh-questions-over-PIK-loans.html

The panorama website has the programme available to watch.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/default.stm

The wall street journal joins the case with a report that doesn't mention any anti American sentiment this time.
http://blogs.wsj.com/bankruptcy/2010/06/08/manchester-united-owner%E2%80%99s-debt-troubles-fans/

Andersred sends out another open letter to David Gill. His reputation, Gill's obviously, must be sinking faster than the Titanic at the moment. Good.
http://andersred.blogspot.com/2010/06/another-open-letter-to-david-gill.html

Nani is the latest player to suufer the world cup jinx as a collar bone injury rules him out of the world cup. The good news is a summer off for next season, but i have to admit it might have been good for his confidence to have had a good world cup,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/jun/08/nani-out-world-cup-2010

Vidic looking forward to world cup but hopes to avoid England in the last 16. If Serbia are as poor as they were in their last major tournament they won't get out of their group and looking at their group i don't fancy them to.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup-2010/teams/serbia/7812663/World-Cup-2010-Serbias-Nemanja-Vidic-not-distracted-by-potential-England-meeting.html

An interesting interview with Seba Veron where he says that if he had his time again he would have stayed at United. I could never understand Fergie letting him go when he did, unless he sold him knowing he had injury problems. It took long enough for him to come good but at the end of the 2002-03 season he and Solskjaer were keeping Beckham out in the big games on merit. Still the amount of games he actually played for Chelsea, it allworked out for the best in the end.
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11667_6197845,00.html

Jeremy Wilson reckons Arsenal's summer transfer activity might surprise us. As good a player as Fabregas is, if he wants to go and they get Toure and money for him, that could be a good deal. If they do get Joe Cole as some reports have suggested and can then buy a decent centre half and goalie they will have started to address the lack of a defensive spine in their squad. If we make no signings and they work the market well, we could be back to a meaningful top three, that is if Rooney stays fit for us, in which case it will be us struggling to stay in the top three. And then of course there are Spurs, but i'll leave that for another time.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/arsenal/7809600/Arsenal-manager-Arsene-Wenger-leads-quiet-revolution-at-Emirates-with-money-to-spend.html

Larry Elliot is not impressed by the Coalition's determination to cut and cut quick. I' have got to admit i'm getting more and more uneasy about the Lib dems part in this. It's starting to look like the Tories are going to use this as an opportunity to cut, as much for the sake of sating their ideological impulses, as for the sake of the economy. That's regardless of whether it is the right thing to do for the economy, which of course is highly questionable.
If the worst comes to the worse and the economy is sent back into recession, the best thing that can happen for the country is for the coalition to fall apart and for Labour to win the next election. Not that i have much faith in that lot, i just think they won't lay to waste as many valuable parts of our economy as the tories will. The race for the leadership of the labour party has so far been less than riveting and far from inspirational. I can't really believe Cable actually believes in the economic policy being pursued. As for the Lib dems they could then decide whether they are really an orange book free market party or a reforming centre left party. I would hope it would be the latter and Clegg would be replaced leaving him, Laws and co to decide if the tories wouldn't be a much more suitable home for them.
Of course i want to see constitutional and electoral reform but not at the expense of free market ideology. I see myself as liberal left and have supported the lib dems as centre left party not a British version of the German Free democrats.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/jun/07/budget-deficit-warnings-risk-financial-damage

Osborne strarts to identify areas to cut.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/osbornes-bombshell-chancellor-declares-war-on-middleclass-welfare-1995009.html

I can't say i agree with too much of what Mick Hume writes, but i thought this was a good article.
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/8952/

The Franco-German alliance is sinking into the mire writes John Lichfield, not the best timing, it has to be said. The problem for both countries, indeed for all countries that i can see, is where are the politicians of stature to get us out of this mess.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/francogerman-relations-cool-over-eurozone-crisis-1994953.html

Lindsey Hilsum reports on the motives behind Turkey's sudden emergence as an important player on the middle east diplomatic front.
http://blogs.channel4.com/snowblog/2010/06/08/turkeys-gaza-strategy-is-designed-to-boost-its-influence/

Arrested development