Jones transfer still not finalised!

Well it all seemed to be good to be true when the news came through that Jones had passed his medical at United and would shortly have his transfer to United finalised. It would seem certain he will still be on his way, but nothing ever comes easy with transfers for United does it. These Indian owners of Blackburn seem to be outdoing themselves in stupidity, how did they ever make their money. They don't seem to be much of an advert for an emerging economic powerhouse.
England under 21 coach Stuart Pearce is the latest to sing the praises of United's latest capture as he takes charge of United's possible future centre half partnership and is another who thinks he has what it takes to be a future England captain.

A few of the Sunday papers are reporting that the Glazers may be looking at a possible refloat of the club in the far east. Whether there is anything to this, who knows. The rumours of a buyout refuse to go away, that's all that can be said for sure.

Vidic's agent says his client will be going nowhere, where did this come from! Is he still looking for one last pay day, i hope not, why indeed would you want to go to Italy, unless he fancied Spain.

Tom Cleverley is looking foward to the European under 21 championship and hopes he and his fellow United colleagues can do well and progress to the final. He is also looking foward to coming back to Old trafford next season and as he says after Scholes retirement " as ever someone has to step up ".
I don't see him as new Scholes myself, he is a different type of player but i am expecting big things from him next season.

The travails of new labour under the gruesome twosome Brown and Blair refuses to die as the Telegraph went to town on Friday with new leaked revelations that weren't great news for Ed Balls.
Peter Oborne describes a party that is still split and still hasn't left the trauma of the Blair/ Brown schism behind.
The New Statesman claims the real story is who leaked the documents and why. I'm presuming they think Blairite hands well may be behind this.
Today's Indy reports sources close to david Miliband saying that he is waiting for Ed to fail so he can replace his brother. If all this does come about will he then do the decent thing and reform the unions role in the election of the labour leader.

Tom Watson asks former Labour cabinet ministers to do the right thing and do their democratic duty in exposing News international as the phone hacking inquiry just got even more dangerous for old Rupe.
Hugh Porter wonders whether Rupert Murdoch is above the law as even in parliament the phone hacking scandal has barely been mentioned.

Robert Fisk reports on a looming civil war in Syria as the Assad regime looks as if it could have started to lose control of the middle east country. The diplomatic status quo in that part of the world would be smashed to smithereens if that regime fell.

Claud Lanzmann maker of the best documentary ever commited to film about the holocaust Shoah tells Stuart Jeffries why it still matters and why he is bringing out a new documentary called The Karski report.

Johann Hari speaks for all republicans asking for us to be spared the fawning over Prince Phillip.

Spiked's TV critic David Bowden looks at Aussie comic Chris Lilley's latest offering Angry boys and is impressed. I haven't seen Summer heights high, just never got around to it, but i will have to get around to it, the clips always looked good.
With the end of the brilliant Stewart Lee's comedy vehicle and equally excellent Psychoville i'm going to need a new comedy fix.

Cats Eyes - Cats Eyes: I liked this duo of Horrors frontman Faris Badwan and operatically trained singer Rachel Zaffira, a kind of atmospheric 60's pop album. Completely unique and excellent.

Fleet Foxes - Helplessness blues:The follow up to their brilliant debut does not disappoint, it didn't take many listens listens to decide it is every bit as good as the first album. More experimtal than the first they are certainly one of the best groups around.

James Blake - James Blake: It certainly has its moments with a couple of really great tracks on it, but it didn't quite live up to the hype for me.

Noah and the whale - Last night on Earth: I'm still not sure how much i like this, it seems to depend on my mood. It has some cracking tunes, it just sounds a bit too nice, too twee at times for my taste.

PJ Harvey - Let England shake: Another belter from one of this countries premier artists, she doesn't stand still or repeat herself.

REM - Collapse into now: I thought this was pretty good, not earth shattering and no classics on it but enough decent tunes and some of the rockier tunes were excellent.