Rooney gets a taste

of what life will be like if he goes to City, as men in balaclavas gather outside his Cheshire home to remind him life will not be very comfortable for him if he goes across the city. Martin Samuel wonders just what kind of advice Stretford is actually giving him. As he predics that last night will be the norm from now on if he makes the move to City. I think we have an idea of the advice, make me some money, boy. I wonder sometimes if he has got something over Rooney to use if he doesn't take his advice. As i have said i could understand if he wanted to go to Real, Barca or Milan even. Maybe Chelsea if he wanted to get away from the north west but City, when you have been a United player, Samuel is right he will have no kind of life.
James Lawton is distinctly unimpressed by Rooney's cynical and disloyal posturing and manages to take more than one or two swipes at Keano. Patrice Evra sounds more than a little angry with the comments that came from Rooney's camp in Wednesday's statement. He actually had his best game for ages the other night, maybe this will galvanise him. I know i wasn't alone in wondering how much his heart was still the in the club after recent displays, at least it looks like that was misplaced on my part.

Ian Ladyman looks at Rooney's lack of ambition accusation and acknowledges that whether it was cynical positioning or not it was hard to disagree with the sentiment. Paul Hayward look at the role of City in all this and thinks City are the club that has turned Rooney's ( Stretford's? ) head. Frank Malley of the sporting life thinks Rooney's lack of ambition barb may do the club a favour in the long run if it alerts the Glazer's to the fact that if they want to seel United for a profit they will have to open the purse strings. I aint holding my breath, in fact i would see them selling up first and getting out of something the just do not understand.

Jim White compares Rooney to Whiteside while describing one of the theories going around why Rooney and Stretford want this City move. White thinks Ferguson will want him out of the club after this, i thought that was going to be the case after his post match comments on Wednesday but yesterdays events and rumours don't point conclusively to that. You have to wonder if he has been told or whether he doesn't even have to ask that he would only get part or wouldn't even get any of the money. Going on past form Rooney should have played his last game for the club.

The IFS didn't give the coalition long before it weighed in to demolish their mantra of fair and we are all in this together as it warns that the poorest will be hit hardest. Clegg hits back calling it nonsense, in an interview with the Guardian. Iain Martin points out to Clegg how he is being played brilliantly by Cameron and Osborne and yet he goesalong with it so willingly. Will he go down as the lib dems Ramsey Macdonald?
Faisal Islam of channel4 news looks at the spending review and says the treasury's own tables back the up the stance taken by the IFS. He is also mightily unimpressed by thw hole document.
In the wake of the spending review Jill Tarynor asks the question that nobody else seems to have asked and to me is the nub of everything. How did the banks get off so lightly?

Bach