As The Times rightly points out, Manchester United and Liverpool might have avoided each other in the final stages of the Champions League following Friday’s draw, but they still ended up in a war of words.

This time it’s Sir Alex Ferguson, not Rafa Benitez on the attack, with the United boss pouring scorn on his Liverpool counterpart’s mathematics skills.

In The Guardian Fergie laughs off Rafa’s claim that Liverpool are a poor relation to United, and turned the tables suggesting that the Spaniard was a chequebook manager who had failed to develop his own players, comments that were also run by The Daily Mail.

In The Telegraph Fergie says according to his calculations Liverpool have spent £24m more than United over the last five years, thus contradicting Rafa’s recent claim that United had spent £100m more than Liverpool.

It looks like mind games have well and truly begun!

Elsewhere in Saturday’s UK papers there are pages of Champions League draw fallout; and quite right, too.

The business end of the European season is a fascinating time, and made more so by, as The Daily Star rightly points out, the fifth Champions League meeting between Chelsea and Liverpool in as many seasons.

While The Sun think Ferguson will be happy with their easy draw The Daily Mirror suggest the club’s senior figures are already worrying about the possibility of a “nightmare” final in Rome against Liverpool.

The papers also carry reports of a fresh injury to the increasingly brittle Theo Walcott, who could be out for the rest of the season, after what The Daily Star report is a knee injury sustained while walking at the end of Friday’s training session.

The Independent report that Walcott has been ruled out of England's forthcoming internationals, including the World Cup qualifier against Ukraine, with Arsene Wenger, fearing the 20-year-old is unable to play for at least five weeks.

The Guardian say the freak knee injury left the forward "absolutely distraught", while The Daily Express claim he is "completely distraught". Either way, he’s not happy.

And finally in transfer news The Express report that despite Aaron Lennon’s new contract Spurs could still face a battle to keep him this summer. Liverpool are said to be keen.

Staying with The Express, it is also reported that Aston Villa boss Martin O'Neill is preparing for another tug-of-war with Liverpool as Benitez renew’s his £18m interest in Gareth Barry.