Wayne Rooney admits " I was wrong "

Well i asked in my last post that i wondered how he felt about handing in his transfer request earlier in the season, it didn't take long to get an answer. The thing is, with modern football and modern footballers and their advisors, do we know if he really means it. I hope i'm right in thinking that he probably does mean it and is glad that he has stayed. He certainly seems to look like he is enjoying his football at the moment. Mind you if you couldn't enjoy it now when could you enjoy it.
The partnership with Hernandez has really caught fire, i'd agree with those who think Fergie basically forgetting about Berbatov, especially away from home and going with this partnership with Rooney dropping deep has transformed our season and our hopes of silverware. Is this one of Fergie's lucky discoveries, ala Cole and York.

Kevin McCarra blogs that whilst United " may lack glamour, the beauty is in the collective ". Whilst i can go along with that i wouldn't mind a bit more glamour myself, hopefully we will get a little more in the seasons to come as some of our youngsters hopefully start to blossom. Duncan White looks at United's uncanny knack of scoring last gasp winners and Javier Hernandez's unexpected contribution to United's season and his increasing importance to the team. I can't wait for next season when i think we will be more exciting still going forward, with the return of Danny Welbeck hopefully giving us an extra dimension.
United's Brailian midfielder Anderson is interviewed in the Indy and is positive he will prove a success at United, he seems full of confidence, i can't say i think it's justified, but wouldn't mind him proving me wrong. He will he have to be quick in proving it with the young lads about to be breathing down his neck over the next couple of years.
After watching Real Madrid and Barca the other night and then reading the Ronaldo quotes, i definitely think we have as good a chance in the probable final against Barca at Wembley. We will certainly be more of a team on the night, of that, i'm sure, nor Ronaldo and his gigantic ego, trying to win the game on his own this time.
Andy Mitten writes of the great atmosphere of a proper football club as he salutes an on song United on Tuesday night. Whilst Alan Hansen contrasts the fortunes of Fergie and Wenger ahead of Sunday's Emirates clash, he is a bit too sanguine about Arsenal's future to me, as surely Fabregas will depart the club this summer. Wilshere and Ramsey are two great prospects but it's asking a lot to place the midfield in their hands for next season.

Mark Ogden thinks United still have a chance to poach Manuel Neuer from the grip of Bayern Munich, though when you read on further, it's pretty obvious he doesn't really. It was a brilliant performance and he is obviously going to be a great goalie, but i would go along with whoever Van Der Sar suggests, and if likes Stekelenburg, that would be enough for me.

Ahead of last nights Bobby Charlton documentary John Motson saluted the footballing meastro in this BBC piece. A great footballer but a very complex man, i'll leave it there.

Alan Smith believes United whilst only really needing a draw tomorrow will never the less go on the offensive tomorrow trying to take advantage of Arsenal's defensive deficiencies.

City legend Colin Bell tells the clubs fans the Munich chants have gone on long enough, it's truly out of order and it must stop.

El Classico didn't or maybe it did live up to it's billing on Wednesday night. I know most reds wanted Real to win because they didn't fancy our chances against Barca, but up until Tuesday i was ambivalent. But when i read Mourinho's comments it immediately made me realise that i can live with being beaten by Barca, a great club and a brillaint football team. Could i really say that about Real Madrid and Mourinho, no and no again.
I have never been a fan of Mourinho succeeding Fergie, though i have wavered from time to time, but those comments plus his negative tactics once again and the ludicrous comments after have made me realise i never want him near managing our football club. Mind you, given our owners, it's probably already signed, sealed and delivered, they are made for each other.
Will Ronaldo still be there next season ? 

The ONS conference announced a quarterly growth rate of 0.5 %, not a great result for boy George. Sean O'Grady suggests the dreaded S word may be in store for the British economy, and whilst Jeremy Warner also thinks we may indeed be heading for Japanese style stagflation he still thinks Osborne's startegy to be the correct one. How defeated is that, i don't know what happened to him when he moved to the Torygraph, he never seemed to be that far inclined to the right whilst at the Indy.
Heather Stewart argues that if George Osborne thinks this is the road to recovery, he needs a new satnav. Economic commentator and blogger Duncan Weldon warns that it is time to heed the word of GOD, Gus O'Donnell, that is and get that plan B dusted down. I can't see it happening, the good ship British economy is going to go down with Osborne, come what may.
Faisal Islam defends Channel 4's reporting of theGDP figures and their grilling of the chief secretary of the treasury. Will Danny Alexander escape the Lib dem fall out when the party is forced to pick up the pieces whenever the coalition's time expires.
Danny Blanchflower describes the GDP figures as disastrous but is convinced that it means that at least we won't be having an interest rate rise any time soon. Frasier Nelson of the Spectator reckons Blanchflower has got it wrong, Nelson hasn't exactly got a A+ for his economic forecasting over the last year or so though has he. I didn't take Blanchflower long to respond.

The author of a new book about Goldman Sachs, William Cohan thinks the bank will take years to restore its battered reputation.


On a day that makes me embarrassed to be English, The Clash