Roll on the World Cup
The News Review:
- Roll on the World Cup
- Punishing Chirac: Why the French will Vote ’No’
- Warning of threat to global IT industry from Sino-Japanese tensions
Roll on the World Cup
Telegraph.co.uk – May 28, 2005
When you actually get your hands on some silverware, it breeds immense confidence in your ability to keep doing so. When English clubs dominated the European Cup in the late Seventies and Eighties, it added to the belief that the England side could go on and win the World Cup. And although there were far more home grown players in those club sides, Chelsea and Liverpool have a healthy core of England players. I have always believed that England can win next year’s World Cup, especially with so many young players of outstanding quality. Add Wayne Rooney, David Beckham, Michael Owen and Rio Ferdinand to the five from Liverpool and Chelsea and you can see just what an exciting side Sven can put out. Now that he has negotiated a month’s rest at the end of the season, there is every hope that we can, for once, go into a major tournament with our best players fit and rested, instead of being clapped out. The players of Chelsea might even be heading to Germany in 2006 after their own Champions League celebrations.
Punishing Chirac: Why the French will Vote ’No’
Questions and Observations – May 28, 2005
But we’d starve for entertainment without the clowns (and that includes our home-grown brand) who play across the world’s stage for all to watch. It’s a pity those clowns have so much control over the lives of billions.
Warning of threat to global IT industry from Sino-Japanese tensions
FinFacts Ireland – May 28, 2005
In the third scenario, “business returns to almost as usual”, Gartner believes the impact will be restricted primarily to Chinese and Japanese companies. Chinese consumers will start to favour alternative brands, whether home grown or from Korea and Taiwan, while nascent efforts by Chinese technology companies to enter the Japanese consumer market will meet even more resistance. Japanese companies that have temporarily frozen investment will resume most activities, but with greater due diligence and an increased focus on disaster recovery planning and risk management. Chinese antipathy will cause Japanese organisations to be more interested in offshore IT and business process service providers elsewhere in the region, such as the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and Australia, that are positioned to meet their needs.