Giggs in the news still !

James Lawton writes that the fans will forgive Ryan Giggs if he does the business on Saturday, he has enough good will in the bank. He has nothing to forgive, his personal life is his own, i have never moralised about other people's private lifes, especially when it comes to sex. I think most United fans wouldn't be a million miles away from that position.
How much money has he been paying his lawyers for such rank bad service though, without the challenge to Twitter the rumours would almost certainly have just stayed internet rumours. Max Clifford a man with his grubby fingers all over this episode, thinks without the superinjunction none of this would have come out, are we really expected to believe that she didn't want to name him.
David Allen Green of the New Statesman asks if there is now any point to a privacy law or do we just let the tabloids and their grubby owners win. Alistair Campbell claims that the lack of reporting on the phone hacking scandal and the media frenzy that has accompanied this shows theit true agenda, sex and celebs. Or the dumbing down that was the thesis of Nick Davies's brilliant analysis of our current media in Flat earth news. John Lloyd of the FT hopes that we resist the tyranny of the media and the web. It's hard to be confident of that with our craven political class, Cameron showed his true colours over this episode, firmly in Murdoch's pocket.
At least this lot of shithouses got what was coming to them, hilarious. That MP seems to have got off lightly so far.

Mark Ogden thinks that Ryan Giggs will need all his ruthless single mindedness to weather this storm. But you get the feeling from that piece that he believes he is capable of, i think and hope he is right, because he is going to be one of our key players on Saturday.
Ian Herbert thinks the issue could destabilise United's preperations for Saturday if they allow them to. I really cannot see that happening. If we lose it will be because we were beaten by a better team. As his colleague James Lawton wrote attacking the press is his trusted way of defending his players and Robert de Niro couldn't have done it any better.


Nemanja Vidic told the press that United are ready for the challenge of the opposition's different mentality at Wembley. We'll see, but i find it hard to believe that we will see anything like the perfomance we saw from both sides in El Classico. If United really do outnumber them in the stands by as much as some people think it probably wouldn't be a very good idea anyway.
At the same press event Fergie told the press that we will be able to handle Messi, but Barca have other great players too such as Xavi, Iniesta and Villa. He doesn't thin them being favourites gives them any advantage. If Rome is anything to go by that's right, because their defensive injuries that night must have made us favourites and in the end we were comprehensively beaten.
Fergie keeps on pointing out that we have great players too and they will have to be wary of us too. And that is the way i want us to approach this game with Hernandez up front and Rooney in the hole spraying the ball about when we have it. Our best performances and best results have all come when we have played with that team and in that formation. With our current personnel we just don't seem to click as well in a 4-3-3, i am not saying we can't win with that formation, we probably can, i just think it's ore likely that we will give Barca more problems with a 4-4-2 and Hernandez up front.
Jonathan Wilson looks at the tactical options that are available to Fergie on Saturday and i think presumes that Fergie will play Hernandez with Rooney behind in a 4-4-1-1, fascinating as ever.I still think he will play Giggs in front of Fletcher as i don't think Fletcher is match sharp enough anyway.

Sarurday will be Edwin Van Der Sar's last ever game and what a way to end it, we all know from the past you don't always get fairy tale endings, but if anyone deserves one, he does. The rumours from Spain over the last coouple ofdays were confirmed by Fergie yesterday, our new number one will be David de Gea of Athletico Madrid who will sign on July 1st. I'd be lying if i pretend i have seen much of him. I'm surprised Fergie has gone for someone so young and whose grasp of English isn't so hot apparently. I hope we have got this right, i haven't read how good he is with his feet, because to me that's nearly as important as how good with your hands as a goalie nowadays.

The Independent looks at the next generation of United youngsters after United's 10th FA youth cup final victory and gives a quick profile of the five most likely to make it. I love the fact that four of those five are Mancunians, i don't know all five will make United's first team but they all have a real chance. The one with the biggest challenge would be Thorpe, it will depend how he fills out and grows as much as his development.
I must admit as terrific a prospect as Morrison is, even with all the baggage that seems to go with him at present, Tunnicliffe is the one really exciting me. If he makes it he could be the domineering box to box midfield we have been praying for.

Ahead of Saturday's game the Mail have a couple of pages devoted to Sir Bobby Charlton, the most interesting part of which gives his all time Manchester United X1 he still thinks that Duncan Edwards was was the greatest player he ever saw.
Another hero of the 68 Wembley final Nobby Stiles talks to James Lawton about doing what has to be done and how he thinks will be ready for Saturday night.

Evra reveals that the rumours were true that he wanted to leave last summer, but he is glad that Fergie perusaded him to stay. I'll bet he is, he hasn't been the same player this season though, and i'm sure that Fergie will have his eye on that.
The republic of Sila household is interviewed in the Guardian, i didn't realise they all live together, i hope Fabio is picked at right back.

United in new treating fans like shit shocker