Cleverley to come back

Ferguson has told inside United magazine that though Cleverley was going to stay all season he is now going to come back in the new year. I'll bet Wigan are not impressed, but will keep quiet to kepp well in with United for future loanee's. Great news for United, you won't be surprised to hear me say. Fergie's reasons for letting him go still sound more than a bit hollow to me. He will be like a new signing, how long before we here that.

All the papers are reporting on United tracking Danish goalie Anders Lindegaard as a possible replacement for Van Der Sar, with the news that goalkeeping coach Erc Steele has been scouting him last week.

It looks like Richie De Laet has made a decnt start to his loan period at Bramhall lane with the news that Gary Speed wants to extend his loan. I should think that Fergie will be happy with the news and would be happy to let him stay.
Scott Wooton had a dream debut for Tranmere scoring a an equaliser and impressing as centre back on his first start.

United's indifferent premier league start seems to have cajoled agents into linking their players with a move to old trafford, Diarra is the latest.

From the farcical to the surreal, Liverpool board agrees to sell the club to Boston red sox. But wait there is a catch, there is a boardoom civil war over the civil war with the two yanks set to start legal proceedings. I can't see any of that going down well with the fans. Who would joinn that club, i bet Gerrard and Torres wish they could turn the clock back. Robert Peston writes that Hicks and Gillet are perched precariously between the devil and the deep blue water and that administration is still a live option.
David Conn explains the mess that the club are in.

It sounds like the Mancini - Tevez truce that that was sealed by making the Argentinian captain hasn't worked with the news that they has a another row at half time on Sunday. Whilst i wouldn't want to hazard a guess to Tevez's motives, ulterior motives knowing the way he and his owners work, he does have more than a point about Mancini's tactics which are unbelievably negative.

Joseph Sitglitz is pessimistic about the future of the Euro and the world economy in general, he is worried about the prospects for Spain as well as Ireland following the Greek debacle.
Stephen King completely disagrees, wondering how Greece, Ireland and Spain would go about reinventing defunct currencies. In fact he thinks it could in fact be the catalyst for greater integration.
Jon Snow blogs on the links between property specualtors, the banks and government officials in the lead up to Ireland's economic meltdown.
After praising the coalition governments cuts programme, the IMF admits that western economies may be stuck in near depression conditions. And it says that is a good time cut!
Larry Elliott explains why trade wars may seem like a good idea to central banks that have run out of all other policy options. Paul Krugman thinks whilst it mat seem like a good idea, the parallels with the thirties in this case would be misleading and in his opinion whilst they won't be as harmful as some economists imagine they won't be as helpful as it's protagonists claim either.

The right seem to be as up in arms if not more, over the child benefits cuts announced by Osborne yesterday for those earning over £44,000. I don't know whether this is an attack on the universal welfare state, but i am in support in of a simplification of the system and fully expect whoever forms the next government to stick with the broad principle of this reform, the universal credit. It doesn't necessarily have to be a regressive reform.
Hopi Sen writes on his blog that the tories have got themselves in right old mess and are apeing Gordon Brown at his worst, ouch! 
Benedict Brogan of the Torygraph is less than impressed by number tens inept handling of affairs wondering if this is how it handles a single measure what will happen when things get really tough.
Bagehot reports on a tory party conference that doesn't know what to make of it or what it thinks of it.

Spiked contributor Natalie Rothschild looks at the recent Swedish election and see a political class remote from its electorate. She thinks the countries historically successful social democrats have completely lost touch with the parties roots and the success of the far right should be read in this light.

Hated by the daily mail praises Stephen Fry for sticking up to the Daily hate

Peter Salmon, head of BBC north compares the opening of media city to the canal that it sits next to and hope it can match the historical importance of the glory years of the Manchester ship canal.
Meanwhile the government has revealed that its predecessors plans for a high speed rail from London to Manchester will get the go ahead but it will have to done in phases. I'm pleasantly surprised, i didn't think that would survive the cuts.
Manchester university has got itslef onto the news pages thanks the nobel prize award for physics that went to two Russian scientists working there who discovered the two dimensional material graphene.

 I finally got around to watching the final part of this England 86 last night and as this blog rightly says the series finally took off in the final two parts when Meadows apparently took over the directorial chair. The first episode was awful. I know the first episode of a series can be slow as you get to know the characters or in this case reaquaint yourselves with them, but that was similar and about as bad as Shameless has become. The second part wasn't bad but it really got interesting during the third part before last night's gripping finale.