Dimitar Sulkatov adds to Jol's woes

Today's Papers / Top Dog / 23 October 2007 / Leave a comment Free £25 Bet

Betfair's Top Dog sniffs around the truth behind the latest tabloid tales

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Betfair's top dog sniffs around the truth behind the latest tabloid tales.

• Cruft's champion - Top stories that can dominate the news agenda
• Pedigree chum - Insights that tell you something you don't know
• Dog's dinner - Speculation, guesswork, or ideas that just don't come off.

Top Dog says:

To fall out with one top striker may be unlucky - to upset two of them looks like carelessness and Martin Jol is deep in crisis again today. Not content with leaving Jermaine Defoe out of the squad that travelled to Newcastle, he then dumped Dimitar Berbatov on the bench and lost 3-1. He had to plead three times with the big Bulgarian to get stripped and go on, and The Sun and Daily Mail both use big back page pictures of the Premier League's new Incredible Sulk. Amazingly you can still lay Spurs at 4 for a top six finish.

Cruft's:

The Sun - Sky Blues deal ban - Coventry have been hit with a Football League transfer ban after falling behind on payments to Southampton for Leon Best. With £28million debts the Sky Blues are facing the very real threat of losing 15 points for falling into administration. At best they'll have to have a fire sale of players in January - yet they are still on offer at 10 for relegation. Leaders Watford also look value at 2.66 to win at the Ricoh tonight

Pedigree Chum:

Daily Mirror - Foxes will 'sell' Megs - Top Dog was not convinced Gary Megson was a genuine Bolton target when Alan Nixon first broke the story in the Mirror, but might yet find some scraps of humble pie in the bowl outside his kennel. Nixon reports Milan Mandaric looking for a £300,000 fee for letting his manager go. It seems Real San Sebastian want £1million for Chris Coleman. Megson is now 2.66 favourite.

Daily Mail - Theo sets benchmark for Gunners - Neil Ashton ignores the easy William Gallas press conference that everybody else has used as a Champions League preview and looks at the progress made by Theo Walcott. The little boy lost of the last World Cup is beginning to grow up. Odds of 4 for him to score against Slavia Prague tonight.

Dog' s dinner:

Daily Mirror - Barton's Toon and Country -The Mirror lifts an interview from Zoo magazine in which a few weeks after rubbishing Michael Owen for wanting to get fit for England, Joey Barton has decided he wants to relaunch his international career. If he was half as good at playing as he is at talking he'd be World Player of the Year by now.

Today's other stories:

The Sun - Dimi Wits - Clatt the clot gets 'rested' - I'll lick 'em says Tevez - Ian Wright column on Arsenal acid test

Daily Express - Gallas: We must have a trophy - Fergie's pair of aces - Jol on the brink - Joe Cole burning for hot streak - Gerrard so hurt - Alan Curbishley on video refs

Daily Star - Oba and out for Jol - Gerro's gutted - Alex's new goal kings - I loved watching Gunners says Gallas - Cole: we can still win the lot

Daily Mirror - Jol in the Caca - Rooney and Tevez are my new Cole and Yorke - I'd love to lead a Drog's life says Adebayor - Red card for Clattenburg

Daily Mail - Berbatov defies Jol - Saha left at home again - Moyes escapes but ref rapped

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