No prizes for guessing the lead story in most newspapers reporting of the opening day of the Premier League season. Yes, Everton’s 6-1 demolition by Arsenal has sent shockwaves across Her Majesty’s press corps with an added twist and leads most of the backpages. However, there is another juggernaut in town.

Seems to be a bit of diversionary tactics taking place here because the tabs have twisted the Toffees coming unstuck into the Joleon Lescott saga. Mark Hughes has weighed in to make David Moyes even more unhappy.

The News of the World says that Hughes is at war with David Moyes after the Everton boss was accused of making the bids for Joleon Lescott public. Over at The People it is said that Hughes has insisted Manchester City's pursuit of Lescott is still on. Though he may be prepared to pay less after Saturday’s late game.

More Hughes in the Sunday Express: they say he has claimed that people are willing Manchester City to fail. Surely not? Even more Hughes in the Daily Star: he wants to end David Bentley's Tottenham nightmare.

That transfer snippet - thinnish on the ground what with actual football being played - is joined by the The People’s idea that Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson is weighing up a shock move to take Ryan Shawcross back to Old Trafford from Stoke City.

On the subject of transfers, Portsmouth, a club with enough trouble as it is, are becoming embroiled in a row after chief exec Peter Storrie accused Tottenham of tapping up Peter Crouch in the News of the World. The Sunday Telegraph runs the same story but casts it thus: Storrie believes illegal approaches to transfer targets are rife in football and that "all managers tap up" in direct contravention of Premier League legislation.

Worrying times at West Ham too, say the Sunday Mirror, who think that Gianfranco Zola is threatening to walk out on the club.