Jones's Wolves, already cast as arguably the most hapless candidates ever to attempt a safe landing in the Premiership - and at a mere 66-1 to concede 10 goals - not only outplayed Manchester United but would have beaten them quite handily if their Senegalese newcomer Henri Camara's finishing had been remotely in sync with the panache of the rest of his play.It meant that while Jones was still looking for his first point, and had a goals deficit of nine, he had finally something on which to cling. By Any standards, the Wolves manager, Dave Jones, does indefatigable well. For a football manager with blonde highlights whose world is supposed to be falling apart, he is phenomenal

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By Any standards, the Wolves manager, Dave Jones, does indefatigable well. But the local residents still have real concerns, in particular about the old Anfield site, and about their own housing. We constantly hear the same worry: will this scheme definitely benefit the local people?"United, blessed by accident of location with acres of tarmac to expand into, are, in financial terms, pulling ever further away from their rivals, stuck resentfully at their historic homes, with huge debts still to incur, mired in their local difficulties..

The Premier League is being stretched financially by United, who, match after match, year after year, make twice Arsenal's income and nearly twice Liverpool's, through what used, in another age, to be called the gate. Rick Parry has said that doing nothing was never an option, but they are years behind United, with a difficult planning process ahead.Peter Bevington, spokesman for the local community steering group, said: "We have come an extraordinarily long way since 'Anfield Plus' and we don't expect major surprises from the club. United, meanwhile, sold four players, including receiving £25m for David Beckham and £15m for Juan Sebastian Veron, signed five, including Kleberson and Cristiano Ronaldo, for £24m, pocketing a £16m difference, reducing the squad's average age to 24 and also, according to sources at the club, bringing the wage bill significantly down.All of this makes the eyes water in the Liverpool and Arsenal boardrooms. This summer the club appeared to be facing up to the severity of their situation for the first time. Only one player was signed, the goalkeeper Jens Lehmann, and the manager, Ars? Wenger, battled to retain Patrick Vieira and Thierry Henry. Arsenal lost £23m in their Double year - while United made a £25m profit - and the banks have called for more clarity over the spectacular complexities of the £400m Ashburton Grove plan.

Overall income last year for United was £146m, 60 per cent higher than Arsenal's £90m even though Arsenal did the Double, 40 per cent higher than Liverpool's £98m.This all translates to dominance on the pitch, as money increasingly determines sporting success in football's market free-for-all. This led, to cite just one example, to Nike paying United £303m over 13 years for their sponsorship deal, £23m-a-season, while Arsenal trumpeted theirs last week, £55m over 7 years, worth far less, £7.8m-a-season. And every match, every season, the gap grows, which in turn boosts all United's other commercial activities and their overall "brand". United have 180 hospitality boxes which are full and have a 10-year waiting list, and vast suites for pre-match corporate scoffing. So, while in the most recent accounts, for 2002, Arsenal's match-day income was £24.5m and Liverpool's £30.6m, United's was £56.3m, more than the other two clubs put together. When Arsenal won the Double in 2002, they earned more from TV than United. But the stadium is the one unique commercial factor each club has, and so is becoming the key divide between them.

The statistics which frighten Liverpool's chief executive, Rick Parry, and Arsenal's board wrestling with their latest stalled new stadium project at Ashburton Grove, are that every match United have nearly twice the capacity of Highbury, and 22,000 seats more than Anfield. So while Liverpool were still emerging from the 'Anfield Plus' d?cle and taking the slow road to neighbourhood agreement, and Arsenal were lurching from one abortive scheme for Highbury to another, United were ploughing ahead, to the background music of ringing cash tills.In the Premier League, television money can be seen as a level playing field, there to be earned by all clubs according to their success. Yet in the first round of building after the post-Hillsborough Taylor Report, no club really foresaw how much of an advantage stadium capacity was going to provide for Manchester United.With none of the local planning problems which give Liverpool and Arsenal their headaches, United have quietly and periodically slapped extra tiers on to Old Trafford, reaching the current 67,700 capacity as long ago as 2000, all of it paid for. Perhaps Liverpool's vision can be faulted, given that they redeveloped the Centenary Stand in 1992 - with a £2m grant of public money from the Football Trust - the Kop in 1995 and the Anfield Road stand in 1998, and all are now to be demolished. Everton also want to move to a new ground and after their own plans to move to a new stadium at the King's Dock were scrapped, the Goodison board are now having to consider other options.All of which highlights the intense financial competition at the top of the English game, in which the size of a club's stadium is coming to be a determining factor for success. "There are questions about capacity but what happened was not about generating capacity, it was about a problem in the distribution network. The network failed and that is an entirely separate issue from generating capacity."Mr Livingstone, who "saw the lights go out in east and south London" from his eighth-floor office, condemned the cuts as an "absolute outrage".