Sport on the front pages - it must be nearly time for the World Cup.

The Daily Mirror sums the fever sweeping the headlines with "Kick-off!" and as the paper points off, that is with still a week until the tournament officially starts.

Most of the focus is on Irish captain Roy Keane who was on a plane home on Thursday after having a blazing row with the team's manager.

The Daily Express bills it as one of the biggest World Cup bust-ups of all.

'Brooding loner'

The Manchester United player finds himself in the psychiatrists' chair, with some of Fleet Street's top sports writers playing Anthony Clare.

The Daily Telegraph's Henry Winter reckons the anger burning within him makes him the most phenomenally driven competitor in the history of the Premiership, but it also destroys his ability to form friendships within football.

He is, says Simon Barnes in the Times, the twin of John McEnroe, whose genius existed on the far edge of control.

Over at the Independent, James Lawton says Keane has always been a contradiction - a team man who was always the fierce, brooding loner.

National interest

Fintan O' Toole of the Irish Times, writing in the Guardian, suggests that Keane's departure satisfies a duality in the Irish national character.

The mourning is mixed with relief. With him, there would always be some remote possibility of making a real impact on the World Cup - with the risk of the bitter taste of disappointment when it all went wrong.

Without him, there is no hope at all, and therefore nothing to be disappointed about when the lads fail heroically.

The Daily Mail turns its attention to the big news story of the day - France's pledge to close the Sangatte refugee camp.

The promise has only come, it reckons, because there is an election coming up there.

Even so, it goes on, Paris is still trying to blackmail Britain into taking in hundreds of people from the centre.

You really have to admire the French for one thing, the paper says.

Unlike us, they have a strong sense of something called the national interest.

Eton mess

According to the Independent, closing Sangatte will not be enough to end what it calls the "nightly game of train hopping" at railway yards near the French entrance to the Channel Tunnel.

The camp is the symptom, not the cause, of the problem.

So, will sending in the Navy help? Yes, maintains the Daily Express, which applauds government plans to use warships to intercept boatloads of illegal immigrants before they get anywhere near Northern France.

It is unwanted visitors of a different kind who have invaded Eton school playing fields.

Anyone expecting to see young men honing the national character will be confronted by something quite different, the Daily Express says of the travellers - a disarray of cars, caravans, barking dogs and young boys on deafening motorbikes.

The Guardian praises what it calls a "thoughtful" speech from the prime minister on Thursday to the Royal Society.

Double-glazed

In an editorial, it calls for more spending on the sciences, saying the best thing the government could do is to put more money into attracting inspirational teachers to reverse the decline in maths, physics and engineering.

The Daily Mirror focuses on his attack on small bands of protestors whom he blamed for holding up progress in vital fields such as medicine and genetics. In a headline, the paper calls him "Clony Blair".

And finally it seems that not even Mr Blair is immune from the overtures of double glazing salespeople.

The Daily Star reports that a company unwittingly phoned the prime minister's Sedgefield home to offer an "amazing" deal on new windows.

The saleswoman was apparently only put off when Mr Blair's agent, John Burton, responded to her question "and what sort of double glazing do you have now?

"It's half an inch thick," he told her. "And bullet-proof."