Ronaldo, Housing Market, Zimbabwe and Mark Hughes.

I can't get really excited about the current news in the British newspapers at the moment. Some of the running stories have an element of inevitableness about them.

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I can't do much about Ronaldo going to Real Madrid. Obviously, I would like to see him diving in a Man Utd shirt but I suppose what concerns the Glazers is that they know Real Madrid is not the best buyer in town. Arsenal took ages to be paid for Anelka while the Beckham deal saw Man Utd factoring the operation with the
Royal Bank of Scotland (I think). £80m is never going to be £80m amd has been denied by Real Madrid president Ramon Calderon.

The British housing market is going down if the lenders can't be persuaded to lend. Chancellor Alistair Darling says he is prepared to bring in the Financial Services Authority (FSA) amid rumours that he is going to be sacked by Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Apparently, Darling and his wife babysit Gordon's kids. Darling should spend more time on his day job and ensure that the British banks do not founder like
Northern Rock.

Zimbabwe is sad but with Mugabe, who had financed the education of South African leader Mbeki, will know that he has nothing to fear from his young charge.There is always the concern that South Africa will eventually go the way of Zimbabwe in terms of economic collapse. If the West averted its eyes with
Rwanda, then we could quite happily ignore Zimbabwe.
A friend of mine recently visited Zimbabwe and said he was really impressed by the can-do spirit of the people and how they helped each other out.

I don't lie awake thinking about Mark Hughes but I think he should improve Manchester City. He should do better than Paul Ince at his old club Blackburn, who upset a few people wearing a Man Utd shirt, when he was contractually still a West Ham player.