11/12 The Sports Pages

Thanks to some serious feather ruffling, Patrice Evra has secured his place across the back pages of Saturday’s papers.

The Manchester United left-back labelled Arsenal a “training centre” ahead of Monday’s clash between the two teams. “You’re rubbish Arsenal: Gunners will never win a trophy – Evra” says the headline on the back page of The Irish Sun.

“EVRA AGGRO” says the Irish Daily Mirror, coupled with news that Arsene Wenger is, not surprisingly, not best pleased with his fellow Frenchman’s comments. “Show us some respect” reads another headline.

The Mirror also claims that our boys in green won’t meet England in an Ireland-England friendly until well into 2012 after the FAI ruled out an earlier meeting, initially believed to be as early as next June.

Over on the Irish Independent, reporter Daniel McDonnell looks into “The Great Robbie Keane mystery: one by one all his managers have shown him the door”. Why is it, he asks, that the Irish striker is always the one to go.

Turning to rugby, the Indo also features a rallying cry from Leo Cullen for Joe Schmidt’s Leinster to ‘stand up’ to the mighty Clermont when they face them on Sunday in the Heineken Cup.

“They are a team that like to come out to you early and throw everything at you, we have to stand up to that,” he says.