The big derby is going to get underway later and Martin Samuel at the Daily Mail wants to point the finger at Manchester City, claiming they are all that is wrong with football.
We hear so much about respect these days that football is in danger of turning into south central Los Angeles. Blue versus red; Crips against Bloods.

Manchester United play Manchester City again tonight at Old Trafford, so you can pretty much guarantee somebody will get dissed; probably Carlos Tevez, whose popularity at Old Trafford is right up there with Malcolm Glazer’s.

Lack of respect explains the feud between Tevez and Gary Neville, the Manchester United captain, apparently. According to Kia Joorabchian, adviser to Tevez, the angry gestures and description of Neville as an idiot and a creep were not even derogatory. ‘A professional footballer has to have respect for his companions and if you don’t have class, then you have to accept that they are entitled to say something back,’ Joorabchian said.

Leaving aside exactly who is in a position to lecture on class in football these days - although it hasn’t stopped the most debt-laden Prime Minister in history sermonising on governance and balancing the books - Joorabchian would appear to have rather missed the point. Modern Manchester City do not have class and they do not have respect; that is what is so appealing about them.

Ian McGarry in the Sun has his say on news of Crystal Palace's administration. And, of course, he saw it coming.

In Palace's case, a campaign which saw them just outside the play-offs suddenly became a relegation battle in the bleep of a mobile phone. It would be wrong to say they hadn't seen it coming. Twice this term the staff discovered their wages had not been paid on time. And they're not anywhere near the best-paid squad in the Championship - making this new development even more of a shock.

But football is an optimistic environment by nature. After all, there's always the next game to make up for disappointment in the last one. In terms of the club, Palace couldn't be further from the image of football as wasteful and bloated. Everything is run on a budget.

Chairman and owner Simon Jordan, abhors throwing money away and has banned paying agents. Even the players' canteen and laundry have been pared down to a minimum. In effect, everything that could have been cut had been. Therein lies the grave truth facing English football in 2010 - even big clubs with a large fan base, rich history and that are reasonably well run can still go under.

Meanwhile, Paddy Barclay in the Times has a look at Liverpool's woes after another dismal result - this time against Wolves - and says that Steven Gerrard failed to make an impact.

Reports that Juventus are pondering a move for Rafael Benítez had the Liverpool followers in two minds. Many remain loyal to the manager who has guided them to two Champions League finals, but some feel that his time has come and gone and that the summer would be an ideal time to thank him for the memories.

The pro-Benítez camp had been heartened by the performance that brought Liverpool a 2-0 victory over Tottenham Hotspur at Anfield six days earlier; it was indeed more like the team’s better form of last season, when they gave Manchester United a scare for much of the Barclays Premier League campaign, in that the spirit for combat and team sense were evident.

Coincidentally or not, this was in the absence through injury of the star players, Fernando Torres and Steven Gerrard. The Englishman returned last night and yet, for all his industry, seldom threatened to break free of Michael Mancienne’s man-to-man marking. Team-wise, it was an unimpressive Liverpool display, one that left the club with only 11 wins in 23 league matches — they have 15 games left to save their season by finishing fourth.

It would be an exaggeration to say that the purchase of Alonso from Real Sociedad made Benítez’s Liverpool, or that his sale to Real Madrid last summer will prove a regime-breaker. But how they miss Alonso’s composure; neither Javier Mascherano nor Lucas Leiva can see the passes he used to make.

Gerrard, a damp squib in the first half, showed signs of his characteristic explosiveness on the resumption, but the service from deep midfield was seldom of the quality he would have wanted.