The assistant-manager is on the club's pre-season tour

Economic view

David Cameron is tonight courting controversy by attending a meeting of the secretive Bilderberg Group, which comprises senior politicians, economists, business leaders and academics from Europe and North America.

Recovery hopes have received a further boost after figures revealed the gap between the UK's exports and imports dropped by more than expected to £2.6 billion in April.

We call it globalisation and it is one of the two great economic stories of our time: that shift of economic power from the old developed world to the new emerging one. The other story is the nasty economic cycle we have just experienced. The two stories are linked because the failures of Western economic management that exacerbated the last recession have sped up the power shift.

Andrew Main Wilson is to be the new chief executive of AMBA, it has been announced on the first day of the Association's conference in Poland.

The trade deficit narrowed slightly in March, adding to hopes that the economy could be beginning to strengthen.

The target of Niall Ferguson's attack has also been traduced by economic convervatives

Japan's trade deficit hit a record high in the last financial year, the Ministry of Finance said.

The international authority on postgraduate business education, the Association of MBAs (AMBA), has reported a 17 per cent growth in membership numbers.

US Outlook It's depressing to see trouble return to the mineral-rich African state of Guinea.

Many Indians feel that Britain's outrages during the colonial era have never been fully admitted, never mind taken responsibility for