Rooney in RUINS
Headline of the day...
ROONEY IN RUINS
The Daily Mirror report on the opening weekend of the Premier League season and already there's bad news for Steve McClaren, with Wayne Rooney breaking his foot, which should rule him out for two months, meaning he'll miss England's Euro 2008 qualifiers against Israel and Russia next month.
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ROO HELL
The Sun also report on this story, throwing England's Euro 2008 campaign into turmoil. Of course, Manchester United might also be a little concerned...
FOOT AND OUT
Foot And Out. That sounds like Foot And Mouth doesn't it? What an amazing headline from the Daily Star about the Rooney story! Oh wait, actually Foot And Out sounds nothing like Foot And Mouth, and it's a rubbish headline from a rubbish newspaper.
ROONEY STRUCK AGAIN BY METATARSAL CURSE
Of course, this whole injury thing is nothing new to Rooney, as The Guardian explain. Maybe he should get steel-reinforced boots to stop people breaking his feet everytime they stand on them?
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IS THERE MUCH MORE OF THIS?
A star-studded line-up in the crowd at Old Trafford in the Daily Mail, with Carlos Tevez, Anderson, Owen Hargreaves, Louis Saha, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Gary Neville all watching on while Sam Allardyce and Sven Goran Eriksson also take a peek at United and Reading.
CHELSEA SURPASS LEGENDS
Yesterday's other main football news was that Chelsea are now the greatest team in the history of the world. The Daily Express report on the news that Jose Mourinho's team broke Liverpool's unbeaten home record of 63 games.
Other top stories...
NIKE'S CELEBRATED CLIENT RULED OUT AGAIN
With Wayne Rooney's broken foot problems returning again the Daily Telegraph blame Nike and their lightweight boots.
WILD LUNGE PUTS KITSON IN UNWANTED SPOTLIGHT
At least Rooney got to play for 45 minutes yesterday, Dave Kitson only lasted 37 seconds before being sent off, but an interview in The Times reveals him to be one of the more down-to-earth and likeable footballers around.
TEVEZ UNDER STARTER'S ORDERS FOR SEQUEL TO RESCUE ACT
The short-term effect of Rooney's injury is that Carlos Tevez's debut will come a few days earlier, against Portsmouth rather than Man City at the weekend, reveals The Independent.
HLEB LATE SHOW LETS JENS OFF THE HOOK
The weekend's most amusing moment came at the Emirates, where Jens Lehmann took barely a minute to provide entertainment and a goal for David Healy, though it all worked out in the end for Arsenal, reports the Daily Mail.
IT'S ALL LOOKING SHIPSHAPE NOW FOR MOURINHO
The Daily Express report on an unusually exciting afternoon at Stamford Bridge and fill it with lots of really bad nautical puns because Claudio Pizarro once 'dreamed of becoming a naval captain'.
ELANO MAKES ERIKSSON'S CITY SLICKER THAN HIS ENGLAND
The Guardian report on Sven Goran Eriksson's impressive first game in charge of Manchester City, providing more slick football and quality than in all his years as England boss. So THAT's why he bought a load of foreigners...
HELLO EVERYONE... IT SEEMS I'M BACK
According to Brian Woolnough in the Daily Star, Sven gave his pre-match talk in five different languages. Show-off.
I'VE HADJI ENOUGH SAMMY
And we finish with a wonderful pun (ahem) from The Sun. Who has Hadji enough? Well, it's El Hadji Diouf of course, who wants to leave Bolton Wanderers after being left out of the opening game.
