United issued a statement thanking Liverpool for the apologies issued yesterday after Saturday's events yesterday afternoon, and now hope the issue can put to bed.
We can all put two and two together, i'm just amazed it took so long for the owners on the other side of the Atlantic to knock some heads together to act in a manner that was yet more continual shots to the clubs foot. No doubt the fact that the non handshake made the New York Times yesterday and Boston's and worry that that the whole sorry saga would start to hurt the Liverpool "brand" concentrated minds yesterday.
Ian Ladyman hit the nail on the head in the Mail today, Dalglish's handling of this affair has been woeful , he's made himself and his club a laughing stock. It's blindingly obvious that his apology has been forced on him, i was looking forward to readin the latest Red iss this weekend, there were supposed to be some juicy bits about the inner goings on at Anfield since this affair broke. I wouldn't be suprised if neither of the villain's of the piece will be at Anfield come the beginning of next season.
Kenny's golfing pals are trying to let Dalglish down gently, blaming Suarez for letting Dalglish and the club down. Hansen used his Telegraph column to argue that Suarez's actions were quite simply incomprehensible, of course he is talking about a man that was known as the cannibal of Amsterdam after his time at Ajax. During this whole affair i've not heard a single commentator mention the fact that he has form for being an absolute aresole.
I mentioned my disappointment at not being able to read the latest Red Iss, i had read that something had happened before the game, so i wasn't toally suprised to see no sellers on Matt Busby way. I guessed correctly as it turned out, that the only possible reason could be the Suarez picture. GMP police seem to be getting as bad as the club over the last couple of years, though in this instance the club had nothing to do with it.
Mick Hume correctly argues that this anti-racist censorship should make us all see read. How on earth could this be accused of being provocative, who was at home on Saturday. After learning what had gone on, i half expected the police to try and arrest Evra on the pitch for celebrating in front of his own fans at the end.
Lest we forget a game went on on Saturday morning, David Pleat writes that United's old guard were too slick for too defensive Liverpool. I have to admit to a bit of a concern with th side when i saw that both Scholes and Giggs were picked to start. I'm not sure why, especially at home, that side was certainly better than Liverpool's, helped by the fact Dalglish didn't pick Bellamy.
There has been a lot of suprise at the form of Scholes, count me out of that. I have always thought he could play until he was 40 if he wanted, pace isn't a part of his game. Not playing regularly enough was behind his less than stellar form last season. So the one benefit of our injury problems is he can play reasonably regularly. He won't play in Amsterdam obviously, erm i think he won't anyway, but if he is used similarly to Giggs there is no reason why he can't give us another season after this.
It hasn't taken long for Scholes for England bandwagon to start, with the heir apparent Redkanpp claiming he would take Scholes in the summer if he were manager of England. Well he's giving him enough notice, unlike Capello ahead of South Africa.
Ryan Giggs tells Mark Ogden that playing in central midfield has helped in prolonging his career and he could tell the difference in his body after playing on the left wing on Saturday. It was noticeable he wasn't quite on his game against the dippers, you felt that when it went to 2-0 if Nani had been on the other wing we would have really opened them up. He can still do a job there though, who was it that crossed for Hernandez's equaliser at Stamford bridge.
He's right about the pre-match handshake, yet another ridiculous Sky invention that the game would do well to see the back off, Liverpool must surely agree with that at least.
Another good win for reserves against Bolton last night as Paul Pogba headed the winner in a 2-1 victory that looked like it was never going to come as United missed some sitters as well as seeing the away goalie make a couple of tasty saves. I was suprised Pogba started to be honest i thought he would be in contention for Thursday night. Apparently Fergie has insisted we are taking this competition seriously and announced that he will be picking an experienced team, that's Park in central midfield then.
I would like to see Smalling and Jones paired at centre half for this match, though i suspect that might have to wait for the home leg. It will be nice to see Cleverley starting the match, he says hopefully, will Fergie take both Carrick and Scholes or will he give one of them a complete break.
Another great week for football governance as both Rangers and Portsmouth look like they will both seek administration as they both fight for survival as HMRC look for monies owned.
A fascinating piece on Johann Cruyff by Simon Kuper, i have read a couple of books about Dutch football and i would say most of that article is on the money. Like a fair few geniuses, he seems to be verging on mad at times. If you go and watch some you tubes of that period 70-73 you get an idea of just how good he was.
We are so parochial at times in this country, we will have all this shit football blooper DVD's and yet DVD's about the world's great players or teams, you would have to search high and low for just one.
Is it only a matter of time now before George Osborne's whole pack of economic cards comes tumbling down around him after yesterday's announcement that Moody's credit agency has put Britain's triple AAA rating onto negative outlook, as Peter Hoskin writes it wasn't meant to be like this.
Jonathan Portes resurrects a month old Independent column to argue that this is bad news for Osborne and Ed Balls. He isn't alone to argue this morning that the credit agencies don't know what they are doing and we shouldn't have ever based an economic policy on pleasing them.
David Blanchflower sticks it to the coalition, wondering who they wil blame for the mess the economy is in next and then outlining policies to try to kick start some life into the economy. Meanwhile Private Eye point out Labour's abysmal record on the honours system and their sucking up to the city in a pretty lengthy and embarrassing column.
The Telegraph's Daniel Knowles pens a very un torygraph article talking about fiscal stimulus, ending by arguing that we need a world wide economic stimulus led by countries that can afford it, we all know that Germany under Merkel isn't going to provide this.
Larry Elliott lays it on thick with the footballing metaphors as he argues that we have to own up on the UK economy, we are not a big club anymore. Never mind mid table he has us fighting off relegation, it's probably inevitable in the long term, in fact if the neo liberals cling on to power it's the championship here we come.
With the future of the Sun now seemingly in the balance, with all that would mean for the Times and the Sunday Times, Ian Burrell asks how far will Rupert go to save the currant bun. There is talk of civil war at the Sun with journalists there unhappy about being thrown to the wolves, Steve Richards thinks they protest too much, who was it that was cheering on Yates of the yard, short memories haven't they. No one is above the law.
The Economist's Bagehot is baffled by the oddity of Britain's human rights debate, the right should be careful what they wish for. What they wish for is for the clock to be turned back to before 1870, where the sun never went down on the British empire and Johnny foreigner knew his place.
Music
Albert Ayler - The Hilversum session: Free jazz at its most free, Ayler was one of its pioneers. I like it, but i admit i have to work at it, it needs a few listens before it becomes totally enjoyable.
Gillain Welch - The harrow and the harvest: The latest offering for the Americana/country duo lives up to past very high standards. Americana doesn't really get any better than this.
Laura Marling - A creature i don't know: The follow up to her excellent debut is probably even better, cracking song after cracking song.
Male bonding - Nothing hurts: This was a pretty good first effort from this UK indie punk/power outfit, there aren't enough UK groups like this.
Tom Waits - Bad as me:Another excellent offering from US one off Waits, the usual mix of blues, jazz and rock but not as experimental as the last studio effort Real gone. I love Hell broke luce.
Walls - Coracle: An excellent piece of Electronica, i have read it described as a cross between ambient and krautrock, which goes some way to give you a clue as to its genre.
We can all put two and two together, i'm just amazed it took so long for the owners on the other side of the Atlantic to knock some heads together to act in a manner that was yet more continual shots to the clubs foot. No doubt the fact that the non handshake made the New York Times yesterday and Boston's and worry that that the whole sorry saga would start to hurt the Liverpool "brand" concentrated minds yesterday.
Ian Ladyman hit the nail on the head in the Mail today, Dalglish's handling of this affair has been woeful , he's made himself and his club a laughing stock. It's blindingly obvious that his apology has been forced on him, i was looking forward to readin the latest Red iss this weekend, there were supposed to be some juicy bits about the inner goings on at Anfield since this affair broke. I wouldn't be suprised if neither of the villain's of the piece will be at Anfield come the beginning of next season.
Kenny's golfing pals are trying to let Dalglish down gently, blaming Suarez for letting Dalglish and the club down. Hansen used his Telegraph column to argue that Suarez's actions were quite simply incomprehensible, of course he is talking about a man that was known as the cannibal of Amsterdam after his time at Ajax. During this whole affair i've not heard a single commentator mention the fact that he has form for being an absolute aresole.
I mentioned my disappointment at not being able to read the latest Red Iss, i had read that something had happened before the game, so i wasn't toally suprised to see no sellers on Matt Busby way. I guessed correctly as it turned out, that the only possible reason could be the Suarez picture. GMP police seem to be getting as bad as the club over the last couple of years, though in this instance the club had nothing to do with it.
Mick Hume correctly argues that this anti-racist censorship should make us all see read. How on earth could this be accused of being provocative, who was at home on Saturday. After learning what had gone on, i half expected the police to try and arrest Evra on the pitch for celebrating in front of his own fans at the end.
Lest we forget a game went on on Saturday morning, David Pleat writes that United's old guard were too slick for too defensive Liverpool. I have to admit to a bit of a concern with th side when i saw that both Scholes and Giggs were picked to start. I'm not sure why, especially at home, that side was certainly better than Liverpool's, helped by the fact Dalglish didn't pick Bellamy.
There has been a lot of suprise at the form of Scholes, count me out of that. I have always thought he could play until he was 40 if he wanted, pace isn't a part of his game. Not playing regularly enough was behind his less than stellar form last season. So the one benefit of our injury problems is he can play reasonably regularly. He won't play in Amsterdam obviously, erm i think he won't anyway, but if he is used similarly to Giggs there is no reason why he can't give us another season after this.
It hasn't taken long for Scholes for England bandwagon to start, with the heir apparent Redkanpp claiming he would take Scholes in the summer if he were manager of England. Well he's giving him enough notice, unlike Capello ahead of South Africa.
Ryan Giggs tells Mark Ogden that playing in central midfield has helped in prolonging his career and he could tell the difference in his body after playing on the left wing on Saturday. It was noticeable he wasn't quite on his game against the dippers, you felt that when it went to 2-0 if Nani had been on the other wing we would have really opened them up. He can still do a job there though, who was it that crossed for Hernandez's equaliser at Stamford bridge.
He's right about the pre-match handshake, yet another ridiculous Sky invention that the game would do well to see the back off, Liverpool must surely agree with that at least.
Another good win for reserves against Bolton last night as Paul Pogba headed the winner in a 2-1 victory that looked like it was never going to come as United missed some sitters as well as seeing the away goalie make a couple of tasty saves. I was suprised Pogba started to be honest i thought he would be in contention for Thursday night. Apparently Fergie has insisted we are taking this competition seriously and announced that he will be picking an experienced team, that's Park in central midfield then.
I would like to see Smalling and Jones paired at centre half for this match, though i suspect that might have to wait for the home leg. It will be nice to see Cleverley starting the match, he says hopefully, will Fergie take both Carrick and Scholes or will he give one of them a complete break.
Another great week for football governance as both Rangers and Portsmouth look like they will both seek administration as they both fight for survival as HMRC look for monies owned.
A fascinating piece on Johann Cruyff by Simon Kuper, i have read a couple of books about Dutch football and i would say most of that article is on the money. Like a fair few geniuses, he seems to be verging on mad at times. If you go and watch some you tubes of that period 70-73 you get an idea of just how good he was.
We are so parochial at times in this country, we will have all this shit football blooper DVD's and yet DVD's about the world's great players or teams, you would have to search high and low for just one.
Is it only a matter of time now before George Osborne's whole pack of economic cards comes tumbling down around him after yesterday's announcement that Moody's credit agency has put Britain's triple AAA rating onto negative outlook, as Peter Hoskin writes it wasn't meant to be like this.
Jonathan Portes resurrects a month old Independent column to argue that this is bad news for Osborne and Ed Balls. He isn't alone to argue this morning that the credit agencies don't know what they are doing and we shouldn't have ever based an economic policy on pleasing them.
David Blanchflower sticks it to the coalition, wondering who they wil blame for the mess the economy is in next and then outlining policies to try to kick start some life into the economy. Meanwhile Private Eye point out Labour's abysmal record on the honours system and their sucking up to the city in a pretty lengthy and embarrassing column.
The Telegraph's Daniel Knowles pens a very un torygraph article talking about fiscal stimulus, ending by arguing that we need a world wide economic stimulus led by countries that can afford it, we all know that Germany under Merkel isn't going to provide this.
Larry Elliott lays it on thick with the footballing metaphors as he argues that we have to own up on the UK economy, we are not a big club anymore. Never mind mid table he has us fighting off relegation, it's probably inevitable in the long term, in fact if the neo liberals cling on to power it's the championship here we come.
With the future of the Sun now seemingly in the balance, with all that would mean for the Times and the Sunday Times, Ian Burrell asks how far will Rupert go to save the currant bun. There is talk of civil war at the Sun with journalists there unhappy about being thrown to the wolves, Steve Richards thinks they protest too much, who was it that was cheering on Yates of the yard, short memories haven't they. No one is above the law.
The Economist's Bagehot is baffled by the oddity of Britain's human rights debate, the right should be careful what they wish for. What they wish for is for the clock to be turned back to before 1870, where the sun never went down on the British empire and Johnny foreigner knew his place.
Music
Albert Ayler - The Hilversum session: Free jazz at its most free, Ayler was one of its pioneers. I like it, but i admit i have to work at it, it needs a few listens before it becomes totally enjoyable.
Gillain Welch - The harrow and the harvest: The latest offering for the Americana/country duo lives up to past very high standards. Americana doesn't really get any better than this.
Laura Marling - A creature i don't know: The follow up to her excellent debut is probably even better, cracking song after cracking song.
Male bonding - Nothing hurts: This was a pretty good first effort from this UK indie punk/power outfit, there aren't enough UK groups like this.
Tom Waits - Bad as me:Another excellent offering from US one off Waits, the usual mix of blues, jazz and rock but not as experimental as the last studio effort Real gone. I love Hell broke luce.
Walls - Coracle: An excellent piece of Electronica, i have read it described as a cross between ambient and krautrock, which goes some way to give you a clue as to its genre.
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