Charity Shield today. Be it a glorified friendly or a genuine trophy, it's good to see the lads in action a week before the serious stuff begins. And to add incentive, should United win it, Ryan Giggs becomes the most decorated footballer in world football.
Also fair play to Peter Crouch as he has made it on the front page and the back page of this mornings News of the World. Both stories seem to be absolutely made up shite. The front page is about him cheating on Abbie for some teen hooker and the back page is about him leaving Tottenham, saying how Tottenham have regretted buying him. Is that why he featured in every Premiership game last season? He scored the goal that put Tottenham in the Champions League. If there's any truth in these rumours, I'd do my best to keep hold of him if I was Spurs manager. In Europe this season, he'd be a great target man and he has Champions League experience. If I was Spurs, I wouldn't bring in anymore strikers, as they have got four great strikers at the minute anyway in Defoe, Crouch, Keane and Pavlyuchenko.
Also, promising news today. Sir Alex Ferguson wasn't at United's public training session yesterday, he was at Craven Cottage where Fulham were playing Werder Bremman. Who plays for Werder Bremman? Mezut Ozil. Would be a great signing for United as he has that creative spark that only Paul Scholes has in the centre of midfield. Him doing all the passing, Fletcher doing all the physical work. Would be a modern day Keane and Scholes.