ROONEY TUNES.

The rump of the last Labour Government still exists, in part, in the form of Manchester United Football Club. For an organization that can just about service it's current debt, it has suddenly created an economic nightmare all it's own, by paying this low scoring 'striker', along with his agent, shed loads of money. In addition to this farcical situation, we read that the club will further increase it's debt to fund the purchase of additional players, all of which will increase the existing loans to more than 3/4 of a billion pounds. Only a business run on unsound socialist models of such economic impropriety could pursue this course.

We have no need to expound on the current financial difficulties in which the country finds itself, following years of something we'll call 'budget abuse'. However, the Rooney fracas was being played out with the Government's financial review forming the back drop. Strange how an in and out of form, slightly above average footballer demands more, just as the rest of us will be worse off. It is appreciated, nevertheless, that this can only happen as long as the support remains for the game, any game.

Rooney's manager's political left leaning is, of course, familiar to most of us. Something here does not add up; Ferguson can't be that stupid! The denouement could well be, to establish a false value on his erstwhile forward, which might increase the transfer fee, if and when he goes.


FIRST HE SAYS HE WON'T AND THEN HE WILL.