It is now time to switch to a new Money AM football blog as the world cup is now over and we all look to the future.....World cup 2010 is over, Bravo Espana, and Forlan, once again and bring on the new season !.....I never expected the last thread to be such a success...thanks all.... so this new one might go on for years without the need to edit the title...we shall see...

Whoops - never mind, Champions League it'll have to be

Nice result yesterday M , my mate was at the game supporting the losing side. Gave him some stick by text :-)

And we'll done to Newport , deserved the draw and a trip to Wembley for the replay. Their biggest home crowd since 1983 v Cardiff ... beat us 2-1 , bloody ref was atrocious.

Talking of which , Cardiff will have their biggest home crowd since our 5th round FA Cup tie v Everton in 1977. I was at that game too and we lost 2-1 after taking the lead. Replays showed the second goal shouldn't have been allowed.

Got a tenner on Cardiff to win this afternoon :-)

Yes but we need more of them in the league!

Dil After watching the Carduffers efforts I do hope your lot can scrape up to join us in the big league as that's 6 pts guaranteed for my lot -);

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At least when the Man City players fell over there was a reason for it.

"Class of 92" obtain planning permission to build a new university and student accommodation



Ambitious plans by former Manchester United stars to build a university and student village in the city have been approved.

Named after their iconic "Class of '92" moniker, The University Academy '92 is the brainchild of Ryan Giggs, Nicky Butt, Paul Scholes and Gary and Phil Neville, who all started their careers at Old Trafford that year.


Since retirement the group have pursued a number of investments in Manchester, including the purchase of non-league side Salford City and the construction of a hotel next to United's home ground.

The university proposal is included in Trafford Council's £170m "Refreshed Stretford Masterplan", which aims to transform the town centre and wider area into a "prosperous and vibrant place with attractive communities and a wide range of facilities".

Gary Neville says the university will provide 'the complete package to succeed in the workplace'
It will offer sport, media and business courses for up to 6,500 students as part of Lancaster University, to run in partnership with the Conservative council and Trafford College, with the main campus on the site of a former Kellogg's building expected to open in September 2019.

The academy's official website describes it as "a game-changing Higher Education initiative to establish a new model of university" to help students "exceed their potential and and realise their dreams".

Gary Neville said: "Our aim is that university students will of course leave with an academic qualification, but also a range of skills such as how to deal with pressure, an understanding of finance, leadership, presentational skills and also how to maintain a healthy body and mind.

"In other words the complete package to succeed in the workplace."

Council planners gave the proposal the go ahead on Monday after it was revised following a public consultation, with locals having criticised the accompanying student village as an "intrusive" and "ugly" tower block.

The accommodation will now be spread across "lower rise" buildings.

Alongside the academy will be a rejuvenated Stretford Mall and a new and enlarged Stretford Leisure Centre, featuring two 3G sports pitches and three new training pitches for Salford United.

But there has been some disappointment for the footballers-turned-developers this week, with another plan for two skyscrapers in the Jackson's Row area of the city set to be scrapped.

Meanwhile, former 'Class of 92' team-mate David Beckham, who isn't in on this Salford 'university thingy', is over in Miami with well advanced plans to launch a new MLS team from scratch and from a brand new stadium in the Miami business outskirts.

Geez , how about getting on with your day job Giggs and leaving Watkins Jones to build student accommodation !

I see Leeds have sacked their manager after losing 4-1 at home to Cardiff.

Leeds got to be up there with Watfoed for most managers in the last decade. Might just as well employ them on a one month rolling contract.

Watched the Rochdale v Spurs game and after the Deli Ali dive , thought if you think i'm going to watch Spurs celebrate this win , so turned over only to just see Rochdale pulled one back , good game in the end .

Wolves lead now just 6 points and they still have to play 2nd place Cardiff and 3rd place Villa away.

I so hope they blow it.

Most Evertonians myself included, can't wait for this season to be over. The teams below us luckily are not any better, so relegation should not be an issue. Painful to watch all the same, defeat away to Burnley next week puts them back in the mix. The signing of that Dutch person (being polite in that description) has set the club back three years. :0)

Sad day for me.

8 games to go. On current form they will be relegated.

Wolves lead cut to 3 points over Cardiff and still have to come to Cardiff to play. Wolves forum is in melt down.

Ban those mickey mouse irons and the vermin that follow them - disgraceful

CL

City and Liverpool.

Chels?

Should be lively in Barca tonight.

Time to bin Mourinho?

Thought we did ok all in all, and bearing in mind the current state of affairs at my club

GK excepted

Cheating Derby called game off yesterday against Cardiff even though there wasn't a snow flake on the pitch or terraces and the surrounding area was also clear. 3000 Cardiff fans were already on route from an area blanketed in snow and an amber alert still in place.

Nothing to do with the injuries and suspensions they have .... hope we stuff them in the rearranged match and they don't even make the play offs.

EFL now investigating after Derbyshire police throw Derby County under a bus after issuing a statement saying they had nothing to do with calling the match off. Council are also saying the same apparently.

This is not what Derby County told the EFL yesterday.