9/1 The Sports Pages

The Sunday Tribune says that while Roy Hodgson’s departure from Liverpool wasn’t a shock, the timing of his exit was, as was the fact that Liverpool’s owners “did what they had been apparently reluctant to and appointed Kenny Dalglish as caretaker manager until the end of the season.

As you’d expect, the Tribune reports on Saturday’s FA Cup third round games, saying that the only big shock was Notts County’s defeat of Sunderland.

The Sunday Independent feature a big picture of Shane Long about to score the winning goal for Reading against West Brom at the Madejski Stadium under the heading “Are You Watching Giovanni?”

The Indo heralds the return of King Kenny to the Kop and claims that the reason that Alex Ferguson has not raided the Old Trafford coffers during the January transfer window  is because he believes that the prices being demanded are overinflated.