THE HEADLINES

Sun: 'THE FA CUT' - Farnborough's tree surgeon Mirror: 'I'LL QUIT' Venables Star: 'FLOG WOODY AND I COULD GO TOO' Mail: 'TEL QUIT THREAT Express: 'I'LL QUIT' - Venables Guardian: 'STRETCHING THE IMAGINATION' - Farnborough Times: 'SILENT ECB TAKES EYE OFF THE BALL' Telegraph: 'THEIR DAY IN THE SUN' - Farnborough Independent: FROM FARNBOROUGH TO HIGHURY VIA LA MANGA

All the tabloids with the exception of The Sun lead on the story that Terry Venables could quit Leeds if the club sells Jonathan Woodgate.

Both The Mirror and The Express headlines read "I'll quit" although The Star and the Daily mail are slightly more circumspect in their analysis.

The Mirror quotes former England boss Venables as saying: "I will do my damnedest to keep Woody but I don't think my views will be taken into account.

The only tabloid not to splash the Venables story on its back page is The Sun, which instead concentrates on FA Cup minnows Farnborough.

The Sun is sponsoring the Hampshire side for their fourth-round match against Arsenal and the paper is determined to get its money's worth.

The back page is dominated by a picture of Farnborough's Nathan Bunce, who is a part-time tree surgeon, wielding a chainsaw and apparently carving up the FA Cup.

Farnborough should be enjoying their dau in the limelight because they are all over the broadsheets.

The Telegraph sent chief sports writer Paul Hayward out to sunny Spain to check out their preparations, and Farnborough manager Graham Westley clearly made quite an impression.

Hayward writes this about a managerial pep talk: "The play stopped. The players tensed. Westley's eye dilated. The words rattled and flowed."

The Farnborough boys also get the front page of the Guardian's sports section, but it is the Cricket World Cup that gets centre stage in The Times.

More specifically the paper savages the England and Wales Cricket Board for saying nothing during an ICC meeting about holding matches in Zimbabwe.

Owen Slot writes: "The ECB defied all and went in to bat for no one."