The two massive stories from yesterday were Liverpool's exit from the Champions League and Portsmouth sacking boss Paul Hart - so it's surprising that plenty of the writers out there have decided to tackle other issues this morning. Martin Samuel in the Mail has chosen to examine the issue of video technology in football and seems to come up with the answer that it's in principle a good idea, but might not work. Conclusive, I hear you cry.

"The Greeks had a word for it: panakeia, meaning cure all. By 1548, the name for a healing herb was panacea, which has survived with a wider meaning to this day. In modern life, we think of many things as panaceas: a new government, a congestion charge scheme, chicken noodle soup, fish-oil tablets, Joanna Lumley. ‘Ah, beer,’ says Homer Simpson. ‘The cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.’

For football, the panacea is video technology. Everything would be made right if only we could play it again. Players would not cheat, officials would be all-knowing, fairness would abound and the Republic of Ireland would go to the World Cup. It seems so simple; or so simplistic.

As the video official must deal only in truth this is a relatively lengthy process. He stops the video, hits rewind, gets to the right spot, watches it again, thinks it looks like a penalty. After that he probably plays it again just to be completely sure, and then alerts the referee. In all this time - which could amount to as much as 30 seconds or one minute - the game continues.

There could be other incidents, equally controversial, that the video referee has now missed: a goal might have been scored at the other end. Now, he must find a way of informing the match official that the game is to be stopped for something that happened previously. Does he sound a siren, does he scream through the earpiece and hope he is heard, does he run to the centre circle waving a big flag?"

Elsewhere, Patrick Barclay at the Times heaps praise on Arsenal youngster Kieran Gibbs, who broke his dreaded metatarsal after being scythed down by Standard Liege's Eliaquim Mangala late in their Champions league clash. Gibbs has all the qualities of a future England star according to this particular journalist.

"Given the four-letter scorn heaped on a reporter for asking about Theo Walcott’s World Cup prospects on Monday, it is to be hoped that Eliaquim Mangala did not cross Arsène Wenger’s path late last night.

The match had entered stoppage time when the Standard Liège player, challenging Kieran Gibbs a cynical-looking split-second after he had shot, caused the foot injury that rules Gibbs out of not only Sunday’s match at home to Chelsea but the next two to three months of the Barclays Premier League campaign.

The tall left back (he can also play left or central midfield) is one of the most potent players to come through the England Under-21 ranks in recent years. Quick and alert, with a long, smooth stride and an instinct for attack so powerful that Wenger has done well to keep it within reasonable bounds, he was the ideal replacement for Clichy. Another youngster, Armand Traoré, may be called upon for Sunday.

Although Traoré once burst spectacularly on the scene, Gibbs had overtaken him, a factor appearing to be that he is as well equipped mentally as physically. He seemed unaffected, for instance, by the slip that gave Manchester United an early lead in the second leg of last season’s Champions League semi-final."