Unsurprisingly, the horrific events in Angola still dominate the newspapers on Monday morning.

Among the plethora of comment articles across both broadsheet and tabloid, we've picked out an article by James Lawton in the Independent.

James has full backing for Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger after he insisted the African Nations Cup must go on.

Arsenal's Arsène Wenger, in sharp contrast to other interested parties, including the Hull City manager, Phil Brown, and Bolton chairman, Phil Gartside, is emphatic in his belief that the tournament must go on.

For it not to do so, he says, would represent the kind of defeat which would make all of sport the hostage to a perilous and perhaps ultimately unplayable future. Wenger, who has his key midfielder Alex Song of Cameroon and Ivory Coast defender Emmanuel Eboué at the tournament, might have supplied the template of a standard reaction to every intrusion into sport by those who see in its vast exposure and popularity the rich pickings of attention and propaganda.

"I don't believe you can stop a competition because that will reward the people who have caused the trouble," said Wenger. "The international federation has to make sure there is good security and you have to leave a decision to some players if they feel insecure, but I feel the tournament has to go on."

Gartside, who has Danny Shittu with Nigeria, said, "We are concerned because one of our players is there and I'm sure other Premier League clubs feel the same way. I think anyone in that situation would want to get home as soon as possible." Brown, who has Seyi Olofinjana with Nigeria and Daniel Cousin with Gabon, declared simply, "I have two players on duty and I want them home."

But for whose good? It may well be that individual players will feel an overwhelming need to come home, as England cricketers did in the first aftermath of the terrorist outrage in Mumbai in 2008, but the cricketers thought again, after being reassured about levels of security, and the response in India was of overwhelming gratitude that the workers of terror had not scored a cheap victory through sport.

This is where the footballers of Africa are today, and will be over the next few weeks as the authorities crank up higher levels of security and hold their breath against the possibilities of fresh outrage.

Our second story comes from the ever-insightful Stan Collymore is his Daily Mirror column.

God old Stan is using the snow which ruined football at the weekend to call for the introduction of a winter break. The thing is, Stan, snow does not come at the same time every year. Last year it was the first day of February. Not to mention the fact that this current weather is a bit of a freak occurance. So how do you plan a winter break around that? We don't really get it.

Well, the farce that has been this last weekend has shown that the big European leagues are right again and us little Brits are so wrong.

The Premier League and Football League has been decimated with games hastily re-scheduled, therefore putting more pressure on injury-ravaged squads.

And also pressure on supporters to decide which of the five games in a month to go to due to financial limitations.

So it is time we had a break and looked at all the possibilities to avoid fixture congestion - finally bringing some sense to our winter schedule.