It's nice to know that even in a midweek dominated by Liverpool's exit from the Champions League, the scribes of the fourth estate are busy scanning the web for the odd tit-bit of City news.

Yesterday mcfc.co.uk carried a piece with Pablo Zabaleta, and the affable Argentinean's words soon found their way winging across the ether and into the pages of the Mirror.

David McDonnell's write up says that Pablo is calling on his team mates to be more like Carlos Tevez, no bad thing in itself given his display at Anfield on Saturday. Pablo asserts that anyone out of the side should follow his fellow countryman's example in making the most of their chances when they come along.

Over at the Sun, Martin Blackburn reports that Emmanuel Adebayor has seen it all before when it comes to a run of consecutive draws.

"When I was at Arsenal, we always had a spell when we'd draw four or five in a row. Big clubs always have difficult moments in a season.

"These are the sort of things that can happen and the secret is dealing with it well. How we deal with the hard times will be the test of whether we finish in the top four."