April 23 - what the 支援する pages of the papers say

Updated: 08:19 BST, 23 April 2008

DAILY MAIL: Manchester 部隊d were given a 支持する／優勝者s League 傷害 脅す last night when 重要な defenders Nemanja Vidic and Wes Brown sat out training at the Nou （軍の）野営地，陣営, with Vidic 報告（する）／憶測d to have gone to hospital with a stomach bug. Also:? John Arne Riise 得点する／非難する／２０d a bizarre 傷害-time own goal just when Liverpool seemed to be within touching distance of a place in their third 支持する／優勝者s League Final in four y ears.

THE SUN: Rafa Benitez 攻撃するd out after a 94th-minute John Arne Riise own-goal left Liverpool's Euro dream hanging by a 脅し. Also: Alex Ferguson has had a big Euro dig at Liverpool and Chelsea. ?

DAILY STAR: A last-gasp own goal turned a titanic 支持する／優勝者s League 半分-final tussle on its 長，率いる at Anfield last night. Also: Sir Alex Ferguson has 勧めるd his Manchester 部隊d players: Forget 1999 - and 令状 your own piece of history. ?

DAILY EXPRESS: A bizarre own goal by John Arne Riise in 前線 of the Kop 深い in 傷害 time gave Chelsea an away goal to take to Stamford 橋（渡しをする） next week. Also: Wayne Rooney last night answered Sir Alex Ferguson's 嘆願 for Manchester 部隊d to raise their game to a new level here by 説: "We want to go 負かす／撃墜する as the best 部隊d team in history." ?

THE INDEPENDENT: He sat in the 前線 列／漕ぐ／騒動 of the directors' box, as he had 約束d, he surrounded himself with adoring 支持者s - his own, not his club's - and he sang along to one of the most rousing and 支えるd choruses of "You'll Never Walk Alone" 事前の to kick-off. Except Tom Hicks does. Walk alone that is. Also: If the airport check-in was anything to go by, then the players most eager to be 支援する in Barcelona were those 現在の on Manchester 部隊d's last adventure in the city, on a 確かな heady spring evening in May 1999. ?

THE GUARDIAN: Sir Alex Ferguson 直面するs taking Manchester 部隊d into the first 脚 of their 支持する／優勝者s League 半分-final against Barcelona this evening without half of his usual defen ce. Also: Rafael Benitez （刑事）被告 the 審判（をする） Konrad Plautz of bias and poor timekeeping last night after John Arne Riise's 停止-time own-goal cost Liverpool a precious lead in their 支持する／優勝者s League 半分-final first 脚 with Chelsea.

THE TIMES: Sir Alex Ferguson could have been forgiven for feeling nostalgic as he returned yesterday to the scene of his greatest 勝利, but the Manchester 部隊d 経営者／支配人 has 勧めるd his players to forget the mesmerising events of nine years ago and concentrate on carving their 指名するs into history. Also: Sir Allen Stanford, the 億万長者 behind the 提案するd? 20million 勝利者-takes-all Twenty20 match between England and a West Indies all-星／主役にする 味方する, has had 会談 with the ECB about creating an English 見解／翻訳／版 of the Indian 首相 League (IPL). ?

DAILY TELEGRAPH: Advantage Chelsea. With almost the last touch of the game, 深い into 停止 time, Chelsea 伸び（る）d a lifeline in this 支持する／優勝者s League 半分-final with John Arne Riise's terrible own goal cancelling Dirk Kuyt's first-half strike. Also: the Football 協会 will this week 調印する off a 打開 refinancing 協定 with a group of banks which will help 緩和する the growing 財政上の 圧力s on the new? Wembley Stadium.