The race for the Premier League title is getting serious with the Mirror reporting that a spy plane recorded aerial footage of a secret Manchester United training session. The tabloid claims a secret client hired a converted Cessna aeroplane to film United players training at their Carrington base.
Footage and stills of the private training session were apparently then driven to a service station near Heathrow airport and handed to the occupant of a Chrysler Grand Voyager with blacked-out windows. All sounds very suspicious, although the Mirror reporters do seem to know rather a lot about the exact movements of the aircraft and the footage! Click here to read more. [Rob Parker]