Tabloids with Rooney in their sights

I suppose the tabloids have been waiting for Rooney to put the slightest foot wrong after the world cup debacle. It's hardly on the same scale as Anderson's misdemeanors though is it.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/manutd/7923665/Sir-Alex-Ferguson-set-to-rebuke-Manchester-United-duo-Wayne-Rooney-and-Anderson.html

Sunderland's Steve Bruce still wants to tie up a loan deal for Danny Welbeck. It would be a good move for him i think, though they do have a bit of depth up front at the club, they haven't got great quality. So i think that he should be able to give him the amount of games that he needs to give him the top level experience he needs. I also think it would be a great move for Sunderland, it could help them to a mid table position where they don't spend the season flirting with the bottom three.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/sunderland/7923769/Sunderland-want-Manchester-Uniteds-Danny-Welbeck-on-loan-says-Steve-Bruce.html

Sky report that Blackburn are looking at loan move for United's Diouf. They can't have been watching our pre season friendlies then. I have to say when we brought him over from Norway i thought he had a chance. But the more i have seen him, the less convinced about him i have become, especially when you look at all the other striking talent at the club. King at reserve level looks to me as if he could be the real deal and Will Keane at youth level reminds me of a young Sheringham type player with a real chance.
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11676_6292456,00.html

United's reserve centre half James Chester is to go to Carlisle United on loan for the first half of the season. He is a decent player who could end up make a good championship centre half. He's comfortable on the ball but hasn't quite got that extra that players need to make it at the very top. I'm now waiting to see what happens to Cathcart in the forthcoming season.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/carlisle_united/8878713.stm

Stephen Vizinczey argues Afghanistan was an unwinnable war before Obama took over and gives a pretty good reading of the history of modern warfare. I would argue that the countries supposedly liberated in the east during the second world war were a bit more ambivalent about the soviets invading their countries though.
But wars where the occupied countries culture are so opposite to the occupier really are unwinnable.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/7923059/Afghanistan-is-an-unwinnable-war-and-our-leaders-know-it.html

Alice Miles on how Tony Blair and new labour failed the working man.
http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2010/08/labour-club-tony-blair-trimdon
Good article, though it was always pretty obvious seeing through his act, i thought. I never expected much from him on the home front, it was on foreign policy where he was an absolute disaster, and i didn't forsee that.

Next left with an article that describes the fragile unity of the Lib dem position.
http://www.nextleft.org/2010/07/fragile-unity-of-liberal-democrats.html
And the new statesman on the latest terrible poll numbers for the party. What gets me about the polls and what people have told posters from once the coalition formed is when the question of which of the other two parties do you feel closer to is asked, the numbers seemed to split fairly evenly between the tories and labour. Unless it's a northern thing i just find that incredibly hard to believe. Almost all the policies that the lib dems went into the elction with were progressive and centre left, it was a toss up who was the furthest to the left, labour or the lib dems.
Hence the seeming relish which Clegg, Laws and co have shown whilst the tories go around whitehall budgets, licking their lips at the cuts the lib dems are going to allow them to make, mean that the wonder to me is that their position in the polls is not even worse.
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2010/08/lib-dems-poll-rating-2007

Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie