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:00:00. > :00:00.behind that development, as well as Chelsea's semifinal in Madrid. Also

:00:00. > :00:15.World Championship snooker, that is after The Papers.

:00:16. > :00:21.Hello. Welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us

:00:22. > :00:27.tomorrow. With me, Anne Ashworth, the assistant editor at The Times,

:00:28. > :00:33.and David Davies, media editor and former executive director of the

:00:34. > :00:37.Football Association. The macro, a man that graces some of the front

:00:38. > :00:42.pages, former Manchester United manager David Moyes. The paper also

:00:43. > :00:48.poses the question, end of the binge? It says that research shows a

:00:49. > :00:52.sharp fall in the amount people look back and a corresponding fall in

:00:53. > :00:54.drink related attacks. The Telegraph highlights comments from Dominic

:00:55. > :01:01.Grieve, saying that Christians are afraid to express their beliefs

:01:02. > :01:04.because they are turned off by the rising religious fundamentalism.

:01:05. > :01:10.Vince Cable has warned boardrooms to crackdown on executive bonuses, says

:01:11. > :01:14.the Telegraph. The Daily Mail says that customs officials will be

:01:15. > :01:18.prevented from asking EU nationals entering the country how long they

:01:19. > :01:21.intend to stay here. The Financial Times says David Moyes was sacked as

:01:22. > :01:28.the manager of Manchester United because his PR was poor. The

:01:29. > :01:32.Scotsman leads on Preston Flores, who has died from his injuries after

:01:33. > :01:37.being severely earned on Friday in what police say was probably an

:01:38. > :01:43.accident. `` severely burned. We will start with The Guardian. We

:01:44. > :01:49.have to start with you, on this one. One, you are a United fan, a former

:01:50. > :01:52.executive director of the Football Association. Did you support David

:01:53. > :01:56.Moyes when he got the job, did you think it was a good idea? My hope

:01:57. > :02:03.had been that simply else would get the job in the first place. I have

:02:04. > :02:09.to say, a year ago. Like most Manchester United supporters, I

:02:10. > :02:12.wonder David Moyes to succeed. I see this first and foremost, not a

:02:13. > :02:18.fashionable view, certainly not in the media, I see this in personal

:02:19. > :02:23.terms, in human terms. For David Moyes, and for his family, it is a

:02:24. > :02:31.wretched time. It is all very well people saying he was going to get X

:02:32. > :02:34.ileum pounds compensation, his pride will be severely hurt and those

:02:35. > :02:37.around him will be severely hurt by the way that this has happened and

:02:38. > :02:47.what has happened in the last ten months. They will see it as

:02:48. > :02:52.failure. On the Guardian front page, their writer Owen Gibson

:02:53. > :02:56.talks, the end, just ten months after a smiling Moyes walked into

:02:57. > :02:58.Old Trafford clutching his contract, it was brutal and underlined the

:02:59. > :03:02.extent to which Manchester United can no longer differentiate itself

:03:03. > :03:07.as a club. That's quite interesting to me. I just United were different

:03:08. > :03:14.as a club because they had one manager in 27 years. The club on the

:03:15. > :03:21.other side of the city has had 21 managers in those 20 years. Has a

:03:22. > :03:26.reality now come to Manchester United? I fear that it has. That is

:03:27. > :03:31.the world in which they are operating. Of course, the top of

:03:32. > :03:35.that picture of David Moyes, in the Guardian, just like any other club.

:03:36. > :03:39.There are people around that will remember what happened after the

:03:40. > :03:42.brilliant Sir Matt Busby, there were six or seven other managers. One

:03:43. > :03:48.wonders if Manchester United are heading the way that Liverpool did

:03:49. > :03:54.in the 1990s, where their supremacy ended? Look what is happening to

:03:55. > :03:57.Liverpool now. It is an extraordinary thing, this story.

:03:58. > :04:08.It's got bigger names, big money, it's got everybody talking today.

:04:09. > :04:11.The way in which he was let go, the way he was humiliated, probably

:04:12. > :04:14.unnecessarily in most people's views, they should have done a much

:04:15. > :04:20.more quietly. They announced it through Twitter. We all knew that he

:04:21. > :04:23.was going. Also, the extraordinary resurgence of the Manchester United

:04:24. > :04:30.as a business, following his departure. The share price rocketed

:04:31. > :04:35.in New York. It is now feeling that it is on the way up from here, that

:04:36. > :04:40.there may be money freed up to buy new people. You are not convinced?

:04:41. > :04:43.I'm not. Let's go back to the top of this story. Just like any other

:04:44. > :04:52.club. Will you tell me any other club that needs your bulletins

:04:53. > :04:57.although, and leads international television bulletins? `` leads. And

:04:58. > :05:02.extraordinaire situation. I marvel at it. Do I think it's right? No, I

:05:03. > :05:08.don't. It's a Football Club, for goodness sake. But it means an

:05:09. > :05:12.unbelievable amount to an unbelievable number of people around

:05:13. > :05:16.the world. We have to accept that. And obviously to you. What I'm

:05:17. > :05:22.slightly bemused about is the FT story. Saying it is that Moyes's

:05:23. > :05:26.mistake was his inability to play the PR game. Tell me, is this is

:05:27. > :05:32.what is required from his role? That is not my understanding. I seem to

:05:33. > :05:39.remember that Alex Ferguson was sometimes criticised for his PR.

:05:40. > :05:43.There was a very large news organisation he did not speak to

:05:44. > :05:48.four years, I remember. No, luck, this stuff about PR, and I speak as

:05:49. > :05:53.a former director of communications, when we won matches, the England

:05:54. > :05:58.team won matches, it was easy. When you don't win matches, it's

:05:59. > :06:03.horrific. If you have the profile of Manchester United. That's the

:06:04. > :06:05.reality. What is very interesting is the continued silence of Sir Alex

:06:06. > :06:10.Ferguson, who, remember, is going to be lecturing executives at the

:06:11. > :06:13.Harvard business School on how to manage. Also, nobody seems to point

:06:14. > :06:19.the finger at one particular player will stop was there... Did he

:06:20. > :06:25.totally lose support in the dressing room? Is that what happened? That

:06:26. > :06:29.will emerge, I'm sure, over the next few weeks. For me, Sir Alex Ferguson

:06:30. > :06:40.remains the number one manager of my lifetime and I was lucky enough to

:06:41. > :06:45.know Busby, Shankly and Paisley. Let's go to the Telegraph. And

:06:46. > :06:55.Christians afraid to speak up. Deep intolerance of religious extremists

:06:56. > :07:00.are extremists are stopping worshippers of all faiths to speak

:07:01. > :07:03.of their beliefs. This is interesting, we have heard about God

:07:04. > :07:07.botherer. David Cameron was described as that when he talked

:07:08. > :07:10.about being in touch with Christianity. But apparently other

:07:11. > :07:17.Christians don't want to assert themselves to say ` I believe in God

:07:18. > :07:20.I'm a church goer because any manifestation in religion is now

:07:21. > :07:25.seen as fundamentalism. That we don't seem to have any kind of

:07:26. > :07:30.middle ground ` people can't say ` I kind of believe in God. I quite like

:07:31. > :07:35.going to church. That will deem them to be a creationist and goodness

:07:36. > :07:40.knows what else and lead them to all kinds of accusations from the

:07:41. > :07:44.atheist lobby. It is a very interesting storey. It is coming

:07:45. > :07:49.from another member of the Government. I wonder whether this is

:07:50. > :07:54.something that they ` a little bit of positioning in the Tories to

:07:55. > :07:59.maybe go into some ground that UKIP hasn't occupied On a personal level

:08:00. > :08:02.I have sympathy with this dommic grieve view. I think there is

:08:03. > :08:08.something in T I also share the traditional view of Mr A Campbell

:08:09. > :08:14.and others, in days gone by, I think when Governments get into God, it is

:08:15. > :08:17.only setting themselves up for difficulties. But, having said, that

:08:18. > :08:24.there is an issue that Christians feel. They are being tarred with the

:08:25. > :08:28.brush of playing religion, of having that as part of their central

:08:29. > :08:33.message. The fact that they are Christians. The suggestion that

:08:34. > :08:37.other people might be angry that, you know, that the religious

:08:38. > :08:41.extremists around is tarring them. It is ran interesting story. I would

:08:42. > :08:45.love to know whether most people who feel that they are at one with God,

:08:46. > :08:49.and go to church, feel they are fundamentalists, but I'm in the

:08:50. > :08:54.sure. I'm sorry we are going to have to cut it there. Much curtailed our

:08:55. > :08:59.time. Many apologies for that. You will be back in an hour's time to

:09:00. > :09:02.discuss more stories. Stay with us. At the top of the hour we will have

:09:03. > :09:05.much more on the increasing situation in Ukraine and, the

:09:06. > :09:07.worsening picture there in the east of the country. But now, time for

:09:08. > :09:32.Sportsday. Welcome to sportsday. So much for

:09:33. > :09:35.being the Chosen One. Manchester United are looking for the Right

:09:36. > :09:37.One, after sacking David