Rooney will bounce back

Fergie tips Rooney to bounce back from world cup nightmare, and points out he won't be the only player with a world cup hangover to get out of his system. Quite right as bad as Rooney's tournament was, and it was, Evra's was probably worse and was almost certainly his last chance at least Rooney knows he will hopefully have one or two more cracks at the competition, form, injury and competent manager permitting.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/8823640.stm

Meanwhile back at the ranch, Rooney wins his court case against Proactive. To be honest i haven't followed this very closely, it involved everything i can't stand about the sport and maybe life in general.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/judge-kicks-case-against-rooney-out-of-play-2027361.html

Which seems to have led to contract talks to be reopened. I suppose one group of people, namely the gimps, were quite pleased he had such a terrible world cup as it lessens Rooney's agents bargaining power.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/wayne-rooney/7893042/Wayne-Rooney-contract-talks-to-be-stepped-up-by-Manchester-United-as-court-case-ends.html

Giggs thinks England got it's world cup all wrong basically, but they weren't on their own.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/jul/14/ryan-giggs-england-world-cup

Mick Hume has a go at the BBC's coverage of the world cup and final in particular.
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/9188/

Fletcher looks at Giggs and Scholes and hopes he can have as long a career at old trafford. That's actually an interesting proposition, as it will probably be harder for him with his all action game. I suspect he would have to adopt his game when he gets into his thirties in able for him to carry on. Looking at his career so far, there is no reason to think he won't be able to do that.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/fletcher-longs-to-remain-a-red-devil-2026451.html

Sunderland want to take Welbeck to the stadium of light for a seasons loan. He needs to play a full season somewhere to start to bring his game on. But he also needs to go somewhere where he will get plenty of games. If he does end up there we need him to get plenty of hours on the pitch. It was a good move for Jonny Evans so lets hope it turns out to be just what Welbeck needs to start to develop into the player Fergie belives him to be.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/jul/15/danny-welbeck-sunderland-manchester-united

United unveil new home kit. It's interesting that they have put Obertan on that photo. I read Bryan Robson saying that he thought one person he expected to break through next season was Obertan but as more of a central striker than as a winger. I thought he showed some promise when he first came, but he was one of the youngsters who had a mare during to the defeat to Leeds after which his first team chances were limited. I did see him play for the reserves after that where he ranged from far too good for that level to anonymous. So it looks like this could be a big season for him.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/manutd/7891927/Manchester-United-unveil-new-strip-during-US-tour-in-pictures.html


David Blanchflower's latest new statesman column blasts the coalition yet again and even mentions an l shaped recovery. Which would surely be disastrous for the coalition and wipeout time for the lib dems in the north at least. And it would be well deserved.
http://www.newstatesman.com/economy/2010/07/growth-budget-cuts-recovery

Anthony Howard is not impressed by the modern political memoir as new labour tomes start to flood the market. Mandelson's serialisation being tha leatest and the least informative going off the printed excerpts so far according to those who have read them behing the Times paywall.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/labour/7891634/Mandelson-memoirs-History-memoir-or-malice.html

Frasier Nelson writes about Cable's plans for a graduate tax. I agree with the Cable's plans for a graduate tax but i would go along with Nelson's argument about the con of worthless degree's being peddled to youngsters..
http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/6144208/vince-useless-degrees-would-have-been-a-better-target.thtml
Unfortunately, unless we start to manufacture products in this country again where are the jobs for the youngsters of the future going to be though.

The Torygraph learning nothing offer free market remdies still.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/7893205/Cables-graduate-tax-would-be-a-bad-business.html
Reading the comments sections of the torygraph and the spectator always kill me. You would think the credit crunch had never happened and the economic ideology of the last 30 years, since Thatchers revolution in other words, had never happened. Obviously our economy is in a far worse position that it needed to be because of Brown's mishandling of the nation's finaces during Labours last 5 years in power. But we would still have had the credit crunch and whoever was in power would have had to bail out the banks. Which of course the tories opposed, the wrong decision just like the budget will send us into a probable double dip recession

Ed Balls backs it, oh well i still think it's a good idea
http://www.newstatesman.com/2010/07/graduate-tax-cable-costs

Has the the city's importance to the countries wealth been exaggerated asks Larry Elliot
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jul/14/banking-risky-business-economy

Even the ludicrous Mehdi Hasan is not impressed by the leadership contest of the Labour party.
http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2010/07/labour-leadership-candidates

Wild beasts discuss writing their new single
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/video/2010/jul/15/how-i-wrote-wild-beasts

I've not put a Miles Davis clip on for a bit