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Posted by John Brewin on 08/26/2009

Those scenes of insurrection at West Ham's Carling Cup defeat of Millwall understandably dominate the UK press on this Wednesday morning. And they've made the front pages too.

"Bloody disgrace" roars The Sun before going off with old favourite "Scum". "All hell's broken loose" proclaims the Daily Mail. "West Ham set for massive punishment" predicts the Daily Mirror. "Upton Park rampage sees fan stabbed" reports the Daily Express, marking the saddest incident of a ludicrous night down at Upton Park. The ramifications are sure to follow for some time yet though with plenty of arrests to be made reporting restrictions may soon apply. All of the above publications feature pictures of a bunch of drunken idiots "larging it", as the modern-day vernacular seems to have it.

Right, on to the football. Plenty of speculation surrounding Roman Pavlyuchenko, who, the Mail says, has derailed Spurs' flying start to the season by demanding a transfer. Not that's he actually played much and it has seemed that Harry Redknapp has had his eye on flogging him but it's one way of looking at it.

Harry, meanwhile, has stirred the pot with his take on Sol Campbell's move to Notts County, for which the England defender is getting paid £10m over five years says the Times. Redknapp, in the Mirror, says that fan power stopped him bringing Sol, who he worked with at Portsmouth, back to Spurs.

The completion of the Joleon Lescott deal is a relief to us all and speculation around Everton's next targets is rife. The Guardian says Sylvain Distin is wanted by David Moyes, who also signed Diniyar Bilyaletdinov on Tuesday and hailed him as the Russian Kevin Sheedy. For those of you who don't know, that's a left-sided player with a gift for a pass and a hard shot.

And the Daily Star takes a flier on Manchester United signing Arjen Robben from Real Madrid for £20m which seems somewhat unlikely.

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