The struggle to rid the club of the Glazer family continues as AON comes under fire.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/manutd/7884299/Manchester-United-fans-plan-to-snub-new-shirts-in-protest-against-Glazers.html

United have flown out for their north American tour, but quite a few bodies will be missing as injuries and the world cup mean that a few of our youngsters will probably get a chance or two.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/manutd/7885287/Manchester-Uniteds-Nani-and-Chris-Smalling-part-of-squad-for-US-tour.html

Simon Kuper with a piece on Wesley Sniejder.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2010/jul/11/world-cup-final-wesley-sneijder-holland
Well at least with the deserved defeat at the hands of the Spanish his ego won't explode into the stratosphere.
Johann Cruyff lays into the Dutch tactics and has a go at the ref. I'm no fan off Webb and i would agree he didn't have a great game last night. But the way the Dutch played last night he didn't have a chance.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/world_cup_2010/8812484.stm

James Lawton is thankful the negative tactics employed by the Dutch last night didn't end in success. I totally agree, but they did help to give us an absolutely terrible first half and though it did get better after that, unless your Spanish it won't be a game that lives long in the memory.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/james-lawton-defeat-of-dutch-spoiling-tactics-is-a-victory-for-all-who-dared-hope-for-more-2024508.html

Jonathan Wilson analyses the world cup from a tactical perspective, interesting as ever.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2010/jul/09/world-cup-2010-tactics-the-question
One noticeable aspect of this world cup to me was the lack of quality wide men. Going off that, we are doing well to have Nani and Valencia. The only really quality left footed wide man seems to be Robben, but as is the vogue he seems to want to play on the right and cut in and shoot all the time. I don't think Rooney would get such good service from the flank anywhere other than United.

Alan Hansen thinks Mourinho is wrong to claim that the champions is bigger and more important than the world cup. Well i thought Hansen had a piss poor world cup from the studio, the one time that BBC's analysis came alive for me, was when Hodgson covered a couple of games. Hodgson actually didn't trot out the same old soundbites and actually knew what abilities most foreign players had, good or bad.
Shearer is just poor full stop, everybody bar the BBC seems to know that, but maybe it's time for the BBC to bring through new faces better versed on the football world outside of the premier league. Would Hansen have agreed with Mourinho if he had said better, because of that there can surely be no argument.
Lawrenson was no better i'm afraid and his nadir was five minutes into the second half of the final when he said Spain have got to change it as nothing's happening for them. Anybody who has watched Spain or Barca would have known that is not how it works for them., that they will play the same way and try and grind you down through their passing. Sure enough, the next Ten minutes saw Spain start to dominate the game and start to create chances.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup-2010/7885743/Alan-Hansen-Jose-Mourinho-wrong-to-say-Champions-League-is-bigger-than-World-Cup.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup-2010/7885743/Alan-Hansen-Jose-Mourinho-wrong-to-say-Champions-League-is-bigger-than-World-Cup.html

Mary-Ann Sieghart takes aim at Mandelson as his new memoir starts to get newspaper serialisation.
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/mary-ann-sieghart/mary-ann-sieghart-mandelsons-vanity-came-before-the-party-interest-2024406.html

Larry Elliot warns the coalition to take its once in a generation chance to reform Britain's financial system.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/jul/12/bank-regulation-reforms-needed

Richard Grayson on the future of social liberalism.
http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2010/07/liberal-democrats-social-party

Steve Richards wonders where the coalition's policies will leave democratic accountability. He is right it will abolish it unless you have money.
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/steve-richards/steve-richards-who-exactly-will-we-hold-to-account-2025134.html

An interesting piece about Apple and it's future in competition with Google.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/could-apples-first-mistake-come-back-to-haunt-it-2022128.html

The Flamin groovies