Paper Monitor
09:37 UK time, Thursday, 9 November 2006
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
It's a game of compare and contrast in the papers today. That's right, out with the old guard, in with the new broom. David and Goliath. Hansel and Gretel. No wait...
The Daily Telegraph devotes much of page three to Wayne Rooney v Freddy Eastwood, of lowly Southend United, whose free kick knocked the bejewelled mega-stars of Manchester United out of one of football's many and various contests. Ditto the Sun, for the little battler is surely the Sun's type of boy.
Their tables compare the discrepancies between Wayne, 21, and Freddy, 23 - £60,000 a week v a mere £2,000, a fleet of luxury cars v a modest four-door emblazoned with Essex Car Rental decals, a palatial home worth £4.25m v a mobile home on a £2,000 plot.
But as befits a paper that keeps sports news in its rightful place - a separate pull-out section that can be left on the Tube for more needy souls - what really interests the Telegraph is the planning dispute said mobile home is embroiled in. Ditto the Independent.
At a planning hearing, the papers report that he made an impassioned plea to be allowed to stay on the site as this would allow his family to stay close to the established Romany gipsy community in which he grew up. Sweet.
Only trouble is, the neighbours don't seem to know that Rooney's conqueror lives among them. And his team - and his mum - told the Telegraph that he doesn't live there.
Still, why let the facts get in the way of a good story? Run the pic of the mobile home alongside Wayne's mansion anyway!
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