The Sports Pages
No prizes for guessing what stories dominate today’s back pages – Tipp’s All-Ireland Hurling victory at Croke Park yesterday and further fallout from allegations that Wayne Rooney had been playing away with a ‘high-class’ prostitute.
The Irish Independent actually has Tipperary on their front page, with the clever headline ‘Tipperary show Cats have just four lives’, after the county had stopped Kilkenny from winning a fifth Championship on the trot. The broadsheet has plenty of analysis of the big game inside.
Sports news or not, the Daily Mail today reports on the Wayne Rooney prostitute scandal, claiming that the Manchester United striker texted his wife Coleen and admitted his indiscretions – via a text message. The Daily Mirror also reports that Rooney may miss England’s Euro 2012 qualifier Tuesday against Switzerland following the weekend’s allegations.
Elsewhere, The Sun claims former Liverpool boss Gerard Houllier will decide today on whether or not he would like to return to the Premier League and take the reins at Aston Villa. The 63-year-old won five trophies under his Liverpool reign.
