The World Was A Mess But His Hair Was Perfect

You can tell it's summer when it's not just affecting the back-pages, but the front page news is pointless too.  The Sun's top story (not just in sport, but full-stop, I haven't seen a physical paper but it's the leading story on their website) is the amazing: Rooney has a hair transplant.  Rooney's just come out on Twitter about it.  The fact that The Sun starts their story with "Baldy Wayne Rooney" perhaps explains why he's having it done.  They continue that he's "having secret treatment," which always confuses me in the tabloids, where they describe something as secret that they're telling us about... Maybe it was secret, but it ain't any more.

And yet again Rooney demonstrates that the best way to deal with the papers is to just get it out in the open, because secrets generally come out...

Another thing, the picture in The Sun implies that they had photographers camped outside waiting to get a shot of him.  Because of a hair transplant.  Could these photographers really not have been put to better use elsewhere...

One last thing, because it's always been a bone of contention with me, and there is a tenuous link here, but the stigma attached to baldness is such that when there are hair clinic adverts on the TV they never feature bald people.  All the people shown walking into the clinic always have hair.  Even baldness-curing clinics don't want to be associated with the bald...

One other article of note (yes, I'm ignoring England...) is in The Manchester Evening News, it's an overview of possible transfer dealings, in and out, over the summer. A good non-sensationalist look:

Ferguson has more than £100m to spend in the transfer market this summer.

He will use £18m of that to secure goalkeeper David de Gea from Atletico Madrid.

Young will cost upwards of £15m from Aston Villa and United are understood to be close to securing a deal for the England winger.

Tottenham will demand £25m for Modric and will stick to their guns having already forced United to pay top-end prices for Michael Carrick in 2006 and Dimitar Berbatov two years later.

One or both of those players,  who cost £18.6m and £30.75m respectively, could yet be used as makeweights in any deal for Modric.

If successful in his pursuit of the Croatian international, it is debatable whether Ferguson would move for £30m-rated Sneijder as well – but he is determined to add more technical ability to his side after being chastened by defeat to Barcelona.

Rodwell, from Everton, remains his first choice combative midfield option – ahead of Henderson – at a price of around £15m.