FOOTBALL
The Daily Mail’s Martin Samuel thinks that when David Beckham has finished playing he should be given his own office at the FA and whatever title he wants. He deserves it. The Guardian’s Lawrence Donegan says Beckham is granted all sorts of privileges by LA Galaxy, the most obvious being whatever he wants he gets. In The Times Matthew Syed wonders if there is any point complaining about Sir Alex Ferguson’s serial abuse of power at Old Trafford. The FA, United board and Premier League all allow him to behave as if English football is his personal fiefdom. The Daily Telegraph’s Henry Winter says Man City head south to Arsenal tonight with a point to prove. Are they a work in progress or the real deal? The Daily Mirror’s David McDonnell thinks the biggest threat to Man City’s title hopes is not from their rivals, but Roberto Mancini’s feuding players. Oliver Holt wonders when a club is going to commission a stadium with some character rather than a drab concrete and corrugated iron structure that looks as if it’s been lifted out of a flat pack?
THE ASHES
In The Independent James Lawton compares the difference of Test cricket to the banality of most other forms of the game. Peter Roebuck says Michael Clarke has to lead with the bat as well as the brain in a promising start to his captaincy. In The Times Gideon Haigh thinks the recent empowering of umpires to check on no-balls after a wicket falls has made no-balls a subtly more culpable offence. The Guardian’s David Hopps thinks Alastair Cook’s no-ball reprieve off Michael Beer may have swung the series. The Daily Mail’s Nasser Hussain believes Andrew Strauss got it all wrong yesterday with his captaincy decisions. The Daily Telegraph’s Simon Hughes argues that Australia’s round-the-wicket ploy to snare Strauss was a good one but 23 days too late.
QUOTE
‘I am a lucky man. A lot of coaches have been sacked with these result.’ – Chelsea boss Carlo Ancelotti.
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