SAFE STANDING
We understand that Trafford Council have now received the risk assessment of standing in seated areas that they commissioned following lobbying by IMUSA and are considering how to deal with it. If they come out with anything other than it is safer to stand and watch a match than it is to leap around when the team score we know it is a stitch up.
VERON
Reports from South America suggest that Argentine coach Marcelo Bielsa is considering leaving out all players who play in Europe while he rebuilds the national side. So no more energy sapping trips across the world for Seba.
VIERI
Linked with £30 million move to OT by Italian press according to Planet Football
A RIGHT TONGUING
The Times Simon Barnes must have been taking oral gymnastic lessons from that bloke in the Carling ads as he demands that Ferguson is banished from English football after refusing to allow Beckham and Scholes to take part in England’s meaningless friendly against Portugal.
‘As for Sir Alex Ferguson, it's high time he was abolished. The joke's over: we've all had enough. Not content with sabotaging the efforts of Manchester United last season that's the team he is paid to manage he has now gone on to sabotage the England team. And just in case there should be any doubt, he did it in a manner that sticks two rigid fingers up the England manager, Sven-Göran Eriksson, the England team, the English Football Association, English football in general, and the entire population of England as well.
He should be banned at once from holding any appointment in English football: not just for the crime, but for the relish with which it was committed.’
With his tongue half way between his cheek and the FA’s backside Barnes continues to run through a catalogue of Fergie 'misdemeanours'.
WHO THE F*** ARE YOU?
The record books show that Ryan Giggs scored his 100th goal for United at Chelsea but former Bitter, Colin Hendry claims that he - rather than Giggs - should be credited with the winning goal in the 1991May derby. "The ball hit me and went in but if Ryan wants to claim it, then he can have it," said Hendry. "He knows he didn't score but I'm not going to argue."