What the back pages say on Thursday, October 28: Carlos Tevez blow for Manchester City

28 October 2010 07:26
DAILY MAILCarlos Tevez will today fly home to Argentina to begin adesperate fight to be fit in time for the Manchester derby. [LNB]Also: Likefalling leaves and dark nights, autumn means Arsenal will reach thelast eight of the League Cup.[LNB] Crocked: Tevez suffered a dead leg in his side's defeat to Arsenal last weekend[LNB]THE SUNMichael Owen may quit football if Manchester United release him at the end of this season. [LNB]Also: Tim Krul's bizarre own goal helped gift Arsene Wenger's back-up boys a quarter-final spot.[LNB]DAILY MIRRORFernando Torres and Pepe Reina are ready to quit Liverpool in January thanks to escape clauses in their contracts. [LNB]Also: Theo Walcott scored twice as Arsenal's kids marched into the quarter-finals for the eighth successive season last night.[LNB]DAILY EXPRESSArsenal cruised into the draw for the Carling Cup quarter-finals last night with a 4-0 win over Newcastle at St James Park. [LNB]Also: Fabio Capello will send right-hand man Franco Baldini to Newcastle on Sunday to check on Sunderland midfielder Jordan Henderson and Toon striker Andy Carroll... Football said goodbye to one of its favourite sons yesterday as Malcolm Allison left the stage.[LNB]England hopeful: Toon striker Carroll[LNB]DAILY STARManchester United have sounded out Barcelona boss Pep Guardiola about making a sensational switch to Old Trafford. [LNB]Also: Theo Walcott celebrated his first start in two months with a second-half double to put Arsenal into the Carling Cup quarter-finals.[LNB]THE DAILY TELEGRAPHA homesick Carlos Tevez last night flew back to Argentina, after being granted permission by Manchester City to see his family. The striker is also carrying a thigh injury which is likely to rule him out for two weeks. [LNB]Also: Former England captain Phil Vickery will retire from rugby today after conceding defeat in his battle against a neck injury.[LNB]THE GUARDIANThe bitterness over the 2018 World Cup intensified last night when one of the most senior figures in Russian football damned England's bid as 'absolutely primitive' and the situation as 'comical'.[LNB]THE TIMESThe president of the Russian Football Union branded the England bid team 'absolutely primitive' yesterday as the rivalry between the favourites to host the 2018 World Cup assumed the air of a dirty tricks election campaign.[LNB]THE INDEPENDENTTop Premier League footballers face fresh public indignation today as The Independent reveals they are using a major tax loophole to protect their multi-million pound salaries from the tax authorities. [LNB]  Explore more:People: Fabio Capello, Theo Walcott, Fernando Torres, Michael Owen, Carlos Tevez, Phil Vickery Places: Barcelona, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Argentina, United Kingdom

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