Inevitably the fall out from the whole John Terry scandal has carried over into the Sunday's, and the England captain fills both the front and back pages - after scoring the winner against burnley last night. Piers Morgan at the Mail on Sunday is one of a host of columnists and journalists to call for Terry's head, painting a particularly vivid picture of an uncomfortable World Cup scenario and putting Wayne Rooney's name forward as a replacement.

"John Terry is finished as England captain. You can fight, booze, womanise and be photographed standing naked on top of London’s Millennium Eye singing ‘Ave Maria’ and still keep the biggest job in football. But bed a team-mate’s partner and it all gets a little too tricky. You can’t dip your pen in company ink and retain authority.

Picture the scene: last five minutes of a World Cup semi-final against Brazil in June, it’s 1-1, a player goes down injured and Terry calls his boys together for one last great rallying cry.

‘Lads, we’ve got to stick together, dig deep, stay close, trust each other, stay loyal...’

To which Wayne Bridge snorts in disbelief, shouts ‘You hypocritical, lying, cheating *******’, and smacks him on the nose.
John Terry

No, if England coach Fabio Capello doesn’t sack him, then he’ll be forced to go soon enough anyway because Fleet Street’s most merciless hounds will rip the Chelsea star to pieces until he does. It’s the law of the media jungle. Just ask Tiger Woods.

Because I’ve always believed the best player in a football team should be the captain. Football isn’t like cricket, where you are required to make hundreds of tactical decisions over five days. The only thing an England football captain needs to do is lead out his team, inspire them for 90 minutes, terrify the opposition with his mere presence, and be a good role model and ambassador. And is there anyone else right now who ticks as many boxes as Wayne Rooney?"

The man deciding whether Terry continues to wear the armband for the Three Lions is England boss Fabio Capello, and Duncan White at the Sunday Telegraph says it is an unenviable decision.

"The England manager is respectful of players' private lives, within reason, but with Terry having broken the unspoken code of the dressing room, Capello has been left with the toughest dilemma of his time in charge.

After initial misgivings, Terry has grown on Capello. Bearing in mind this is a manager who has worked with great captains such as Franco Baresi and Paolo Maldini, Capello has found Terry to be an impressive leader, a loyal and serious presence in the dressing room and an inspiration on the pitch. Can he really court martial his most reliable sergeant major?

Pragmatically, Capello must also consider his own future. He committed himself to England through to 2012 this week and knows that success or failure in South Africa will define the next two years in charge.

Terry's strength of character on the field, not to mention his strong and consistent performances this season, have made him absolutely central to Capello's plans this summer. Terry as captain is, in Capello's view, a unique asset of this England team, one he is loath to lose."

Elsewhere, and today's big match in the football world is of course the clash between Arsenal v Manchester United, with two of the English game's greatest ever managers going toe-to-toe again. Paul Hayward at the Guardian takes a look back on Arsene Wenger and Sir Alex Ferguson's contrasting upbringings and historical rivalry.

"From the shipyards of Govan and a bar-restaurant in Alsace came the two romantics who have done most in modern times to imbue English football with artistry.

If the world's favourite game is pretty much one long episode of Wacky Races, Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsène Wenger have been wheel to wheel since the last century, or September 1996, when Professor Pat Pending, as he would most likely be, entered Highbury's marble halls to declare war on the prosaic 1-0 win. For 14 years, hard Scot and visionary Frenchman have raced one another demonically, dropping out of the frame only briefly to allow Dick Dastardly (José Mourinho) to seize a pair of Premier League medals.

Ferguson served up Eric Cantona, Ryan Giggs, Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney, and Wenger has offered us Thierry Henry, Cesc Fábregas and Robert Pires. Each manager has bestowed gifts on the English game that far transcend the tribal loathing that will splash across this afternoon's confrontation in north London. Neither chieftain will kick a ball as the teams grapple for vital psychological points but the match will be an expression of the characters of the two managers just as it always was.

This eternal conflict is in a class apart. Almost without respite the pair have fought over the high ground of expressive winning football. Ferguson went off to deal with Chelski for a while and Wenger busied himself rebuilding the London Colney kindergarten after the Invincibles had been reacquainted with defeat (and the pizza had flown) at Old Trafford in October 2004."