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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:

England's defeat dominates the back pages - they are now 4.1 to win Group E and 1.65 to qualify. But there's also news in all the papers that Real Madrid have grabbed Gabriel Heinze and Arjen Robben - while the Daily Star says the Spaniards also want Dimitar Berbatov. Interesting when Madrid are priced as long as 14 to win the Champions League.

Cruft's:

Daily Star/Daily Express - Wenger agrees £9m deal - The Star's David Woods is ahead of the game again with quotes from chairman Peter Hill-Wood that Arsenal's manager is about to sign. Matt Law in the Express claims its a three-year contract with no get-out clauses. Big news for Gunners fans and makes 1.45 a top four finish look attractive if there's no threat of change behind the scenes at The Emirates.

Daily Express - £7m Jerome's a City banker - Harry Harris claims top agent Jerome Anderson has been the biggest winner from Sven Goran Eriksson's Manchester City revolution after being handed the exclusive rights to handle incoming transfers. Nice work if you can get it! But would you back the players he's found to still have City top at the end of September at 4.7?

Pedigree Chum:

Daily Express - Fletcher crisis talks - Richard Tanner, based in Mancester, says Scotland midfielder Darren Fletcher is worried about his future at Old Trafford after not even making the bench last week.

Daily Star/Daily Mirror/The Sun - Kasper's a Catch - Word from the England Under 21 camp that Stuart Pearce fancies convincing Kasper Schmeichel he's English. Pearce is not likely to succeed but it's a great piece of gossip. The son of Manchester United's legend is priced at 6 to keep another clean sheet at Arsenal this week.

Dog' s dinner:

The Sun - Hammers El Raiser - Young reporter Gary Payne is linking West Ham with Bolton's El Hadji Diouf but it looks like guesswork on the back of quotes from the Bolton ace while he was away with Senegal.

Today's other stories:

Daily Mail - England and international match reports - Rafa Benitez says the Premier League don't like Liverpool - Paul Robinson sticks up for Martin Jol

The Sun - Nine pages of England reports - Harry Redknapp says David James is still number one - Gerry Francis on the Spurs

Daily Express - Its Misses Robinson - Sullivan sets Birmingham takeover deadline - Noble gets a new West Ham contract

Daily Star - Robbo out of a Jobbo - Birmingham want Papa Bouba Diop - Scholes says United must make life tougher for Jol

Daily Mirror - England match reports - Tottenham muddle - Benitez grumbles - Everton wrap up Yakubu deal - Bolton offer Abdoulaye Faye a new deal

Tags: Betfair's Top Dog, England defeat, Heinze, Robben