DAILY MAIL: David Seaman found no escape from his recent trials and tribulations as Arsenal suffered a Champions League wobble at Highbury last night.

DAILY STAR: Gerard Houllier hailed hat-trick hero Michael Owen last night as Liverpool celebrated another slice of history.

DAILY MIRROR: David Seaman suffered more humiliation after the worst seven days of his career ended in Champions League defeat at Highbury last night.

THE SUN: Nasser Hussain insists D-Day is looming for the growing list of walking wounded in the England Ashes squad.

THE TIMES: One defeat is careless, but two in a row? Arsenal, unbeatable Arsenal, slipped to their second defeat in four days when losing to Auxerre in group A of the Champions League at Highbury last night.

THE INDEPENDENT: In a week when Australia rounded off a crushing 3-0 series victory over Pakistan and Glenn McGrath claimed his 400th Test wicket, England's hopes of reclaiming the Ashes were put into sobering context when they slumped to a miserable 58-run defeat by an ACB Chairman's XI in the opening match of the tour at Lilac Hill here.

THE GUARDIAN: The FA and the Premier League are to meet to discuss the formation of a new regulatory body designed to reduce the influence amateur officials have on the administration of top-level English football.

DAILY TELEGRAPH: The Government's attempt to fashion a sports policy was in tatters last night as the four major spectator codes in the country - football, cricket rugby and tennis - closed ranks to denounce the plan as unworkable and asked for a personal meeting with the Prime Minister, Tony Blair.

DAILY EXPRESS: England's Ashes campaign is already showing signs of coming apart at the seams with the news Andrew Flintoff is leaving the squad in a bid to solve his fitness problems.