Ferdinand to miss start of season

According to the Telegraph.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/manutd/7871658/Rio-Ferdinand-expected-to-miss-start-of-Manchester-Uniteds-Premier-League-season.html

Joe Cole will have to lower his wage demands, which are a sick joke really. Even more so as more and more people start to lose their jobs.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/chelsea/7871476/Joe-Coles-100000-a-week-wage-demands-put-off-Manchester-United-and-Spurs.html

Blackpool linked with Nicky Butt?
http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/sports-news/Pool-linked-with-Nicky-Butt.6400028.jp

Paul Wilson wonders why England's players aren't up to world cups.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2010/jul/04/fabio-capello-england-world-cup

The reborn Diego Forlan.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/forlan-a-figure-of-fun-no-longer-2018431.html

Gary Younge argues tha the labour leadership debate must draw the poison of Iraq before it can safely move on. It does make me laugh when i read some of the comments on various websites, where labour supporters start laying into the lib dems as if Iraq never happened.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jul/04/poison-iraq-labour-admit-mistake

Mary Ann Sieghart thinks Cameron is wrong to back the old politics over the referendum on AV.
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/mary-ann-sieghart/mary-ann-sieghart-cameron-is-backing-the-old-politics-2018422.html

Jackie Ashley on the cuts that will affect everybody not just the mysterious other.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jul/05/cuts-scroungers-all-suffer-pain

Stephen King reckons it's back to the seventies
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/comment/stephen-king/stephen-king-back-to-the-future-with-austerity-measures-that-will-test-our-tolerance-2018513.html

Stephen Glover wonders what Murdoch's motives are for trying to gain full control of BSkyB
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/opinion/stephen-glover/stephen-glover-why-sky-news-has-an-attitude-problem-2018424.html

BBC radio 6 issaved from closure.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jul/05/bbc-6-music-saved

Iggy Pop without the wrinkles