General Motors announced 8,300 job losses across Europe today including 4,000 in Germany.

General Motors today said it would close its Opel plant in Belgium with the loss of more than 2,300 jobs.

Stockholm: GM says it has failed to sell its Swedish car brand Saab and will begin “an orderly wind-down of Saab operations”.

OUR football correspondent LIAM MACKEY is back in top form and full of energy. He casts his eye over all your comments and gives his own critical analysis of the goings on throughout the world of football. You may agrewith him or then again you may not. This week the subjects include: Ireland’s performance against the Italians; seeding that helps France and Portugal?; England and Steven Gerard and Wayne Rooney; Where to next for Robinho; Capello’s plodders on the internet; Heskey and Aston Villa and the World Cup; soccer DNA; Maradona miracles; Ferguson and his apology and the awakening of Manchester United?