Post-debut, at pixel time Manchester United shares were clinging to the $14 listing price like the Glazers to Old Trafford. (The stock was $14.06 as we went to pub.)

On Friday night, however, the eurozone’s strongest and weakest nation get to fight it out – on the football pitch. They are through to the quarter-finals of the Euro2012 championships. With everything that’s happened, it’s hard to ignore the political overtones to the match.

With so much at stake, it’s only natural that bank analysts have a thing or two to say (because they’re the true football experts, obviously).

That allowed [the bank] to dump some dubious assets on misinformed investors. This was accomplished by Citigroup’s  misrepresenting that the fund’s assets were attractive investments rigorously selected by an independent investment adviser, whereas in fact Citigroup had arranged to include in the portfolio a substantial percentage of negative projected assets and had then taken a short position in those very assets it had helped select.

Things are seemingly moving quickly from the ridiculous to the absurd, in sovereign debt crises.

So says Malcolm Barr over at JPMorgan:

The price action in Perform Group, the progressive sports media company, on Friday morning.