Tuesday's sporting photos

Anybody who says size doesn't matter has not seen today's sport pages yet.

Size counts for everything on Tuesday as the broadsheets have gone long on English cricket, while the tabloids have plumped for football.

To deal with the latter first, this can be divided into two types of stories: one dealing with players Chelsea/Man Utd may or may not be buying, and the second dealing with Anglo-Turkish relations.

To sum up, Manchester United are going to sell Argentine midfielder Juan Sebastian Veron to money-bags Chelsea for a figure north of �15m - according to The Times, Daily Mirror and Daily Star.

THE HEADLINES Daily Telegraph: England shake-up looms The Times: Veron ready to join Chelsea's list of summer time Blues The Sun: Sven's Turks alert The Guardian: Vaughan has to become Mr Nasty Daily Express: You had to quit United Daily Star: Hands off Defoe Daily Mirror: 30 hours in hell Daily Mail: Gough's off The Independent: Vaughan must choose reality over sentiment

The Premiership champions are then going to spend that money on Jermain Defoe and Hatem Trabelsi, although Joe Cole and Darius Vassell are also mentioned in despatches.

Concern over England's visit to Turkey in October for a crucial Euro 2004 qualifier is mainly voiced by The Sun and the Daily Mirror.

The nail on which they hang their stories of "abuse", "nastiness" and "terror" - to choose just three favourites - is Liverpool and England midfielder Steven Gerrard's red card whilst playing in a "friendly" against Turkish side Galatasaray.

The Turks' "vile behaviour", says the Mirror, has worked the FA into a fresh lather about what promises to be a heated encounter in a hostile environment.

Slight confusion might arise if you take both the Mirror and the Daily Star - as one paper has Liverpool boss Gerard Houllier suggesting it is going to be so bad in Istanbul England might as well stay away, while another says Houllier is confident Gerrard will never rise to the bait again.

On the subject of footballing rivalries, The Guardian has a nice exclusive on the battle between the Uniteds of Manchester and Newcastle to provide the setting for a Hollywood movie called Goal!

Newcastle are in the box seat, apparently, but with "an enormous arrange of commercial rewards" at stake the Old Trafford mob haven't given up just yet.

Away from the unrestrained speculation that is off-season football reporting, the quality press goes in for some old-fashioned selection speculation regarding the England cricket team.

Derek Pringle in The Daily Telegraph prescribes the most drastic medicine for the third Test at Trent Bridge - dropping Alec Stewart, Darren Gough, Anthony McGrath and Ashley Giles, for Geraint Jones, James Ormond, Graham Thorpe and Gareth Batty.

Pringle's former England colleague Angus Fraser, writing in The Independent, also calls for "reality over sentiment", but would settle for the heads of Stewart, McGrath and Gough.

While The Guardian's Mike Selvey just wants new captain Michael Vaughan to get nastier.

Of course, one tough decision could be made for the selectors already, as the Daily Mail reports Darren Gough is set to follow the recent England trend for resignation.

Perhaps this is the reality over sentiment Fraser is hoping for.