"Bury your head, bare your heart...

Would Jack Rodwell`s career really be better served sitting on the bench of Manchester United? For every Ronaldo there is a Nani or an Anderson that has had to watch their young footballing lives disappear in front of them. Or what of Zoran Tošić, hugely impressive for Serbian national side that qualified for the World Cup, but he has made just two appearances for United in just under a year at the club. The three players I have mentioned still have time on their side to become good players, yet they haven't had the game time that could have seen develop into World Class players.

I believe that Jack Rodwell could achieve his dreams with us - ok, so I would as I'm an Everton fan but even my most pessimistic side thinks that we are more than worthy of five years of this player's career. If by the end of that period Jack feels that he has to look elsewhere for success then so be it, but now is not the time for a young man to move on to uncertain climes. What frustrates me is that somehow the media believe that our club is not big enough or capable of giving a young talent its best chance of thriving - we are an established Premier League side and, at the very least, deserve respect from commentators of the game. Views to the opposite are plain wrong, and I worry about the biases of anyone supporting that view.

And let's not even start on Tony Cascarino's recent comments about Moyes. The ex-Villa striker; a lumbering, useless bully of a player has now morphed into the self-obssessed journalistic equivalent. I can scarcely believe, following the admission in his autobiography that "I was a fraud. A fake Irishman," (after picking up 88 caps for the Republic of Ireland), this man is allowed anything to do with our beautiful game. If the Premier League, due to media pressure, had to bring in a "fit-and-proper persons" test for club owners then perhaps some of our newspapers need to consider a long look at their own employment policies.

Of course, I realise that a fair amount of this blog is perverse, given that it is going up on a blog associated with the Liverpool Echo and, indeed, what gives me the right to say these things, but over the last few weeks I have been horribly sickened by certain sections of the good ol` British press (no means is this aimed at all) - and that goes for some of the horribly xenophobic comments following the France win.