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A round-up of all the top sports stories from the national newspapers.
DAILY STAR: Manchester City are facing a massive snub following their 200,000-a-week world record offer to Samuel Eto'o - because he's angry with Barcelona. Also: Gutsy Andy Murray almost raised the roof at Wimbledon with a nail-biting win over Stanislas Wawrinka.
DAILY EXPRESS: England's Ashes campaign has got off to an unhappy start with Andrew Flintoff being disciplined after the weekend "team bonding" trip to Belgium. Also: Stuart Pearce's England Under-21s were crushed 4-0 in their European Championship final in Malmo on a familiar evening which featured a goalkeeping error and a ruthless German victory.
THE SUN: Andy Murray put British tennis fans through the wringer before reaching the quarter-finals of Wimbledon last night. Also: Stuart Pearce admitted his England kids were "hurting" after Euro Championship Final humiliation in Sweden....Xabi Alonso will hold crunch talks with Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez this week...Andrey Arshavin has stunned Arsenal by revealing he wants to play for Barcelona...Newcastle will have Chris Hughton back as caretaker boss for the start of pre-season training tomorrow...Manchester United stopper Edwin van der Sar will hang up his gloves at the end of next season.
DAILY MIRROR: Stuart Pearce blew his top in frustration as Germany humiliated England and snatched the Euro 2009 title - making it a hat-trick of tournament defeats against his old foes. Also: Russian ace Dinara Safina raised the roof on Centre Court as the moment everyone had been waiting for arrived at long last.
THE GUARDIAN: The All England Club's insistence that BBC television would not hold sway over any decision to close the new multi-million-pound roof was placed under immediate doubt yesterday when, on a perfect summer's evening, it remained solidly shut from the beginning of Andy Murray's fourth-round match against Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland, becoming the first full match to be played indoors at Wimbledon.
THE TIMES: Andy Murray last night fought back from the biggest scare of his Wimbledon campaign so far to clinch a place in the quarter-finals in the latest match to be played in the tournament. Also: A cartoon in The Citizen newspaper yesterday showed the Lions down and out, battered and bruised, with Peter de Villiers standing tall but almost equally battered and bruised.
DAILY TELEGRAPH: Andy Murray last night secured his place in the Wimbledon quarter-finals after dramatically defeating Stanislas Wawrinka in five sets.
THE INDEPENDENT: England Under-21s were comprehensively outplayed and outfought by their German counterparts in the final of the European Championships in Malmo, Sweden, last night, losing 4-0.
DAILY MAIL: Andy Murray's annoyance at being made to play under Centre Court's new 80 million roof meant his Wimbledon hopes hung in the balance last night. Also: England's long wait for a major trophy goes on after Stuart Pearce's youngsters were walloped 4-0 by Germany in the European Under 21 Championship final last night.
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