Shear awfulnessThe opening paragraph of Alan Shearers column in the best-selling newspaper in England

THERE is one way the England players can silence the boo boys that follow them and that is by playing a darn site better than on Friday night.

And yes, as of 11am on Monday, it is the same on the websight.

You Cescy thingMediawatch gave Football365s award-winning writer Daniel Storey ten guesses as to the identity of the best player in the Premier League so far this season as decided by The Suns Chief Football Reporter Neil Ashton and he foolishly reeled off a list of Manchester United and Liverpool players with the odd left-field choice of Aaron Mooy and Harry Maguire.

Having been given another ten guesses and instructions that it was a big club player but crucially from neither Manchester United nor Liverpool, he still did not come up with the correct answer.

How could he have possibly known that being sent off against Burnley, being suspended for the win over Tottenham and playing quite well against Everton would make Cesc Fabregas the best player in the Premier League so far this season?

But maybe Ashton was particularly impressed with Fabregas in the Community Shield? No, he called him anonymous.

And maybe Ashton believed that Chelsea had been unlucky against Burnley? Well no, he and this is Mediawatchs choice of the best hyperbole in the Premier League so far this season wrote that there is something sinister going on at Stamford Bridge.

So he has basically anointed Fabregas the nascent seasons best player because he was impressive against Everton (and because he wanted to make a point about Fabregas not even getting in Spains squad).

Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Paul Pogba, Romelu Lukaku, Nemanja Matic, Emre Can and Roberto Firmino all want a word.

We three kingsTalking of Romelu Lukaku, he is according toMailOnline one quarter of an awesome attacking force which they feel compelled to compare to all the other awesome attacking forces of past Manchester United teams.

After three whole Premier League games against West Ham, Swansea and Leicester City, Adam Shergold has given this 2017/18 strikeforce a danger rating of 9/10.

Which makes them loads better than the 7.5-rated double title-winning strikeforce of 1992-94 which featured Eric Cantona and Mark Hughes, miles better than the 2002-04 vintage that featured a 44-goal season from Ruud van Nistelrooy (they were only 7/10 dangerous), marginally better than the Robin van Persie/Wayne Rooney/Javier Hernandez trio of 2012/13 (8/10 dangerous) and already equal to the 2007-09 strikeforce featuring Ronaldo (68 goals across two seasons), Wayne Rooney (32) and Carlos Tevez (34).

After three games. He definitely hasnt got carried away.

As Shergold writes

While Ibrahimovic wont have a chance to replicate his stunning form of last season until December at the earliest, the other three have made flying startsRashford and Martial offer lightning pace, skill and a decent chance conversion rate, while Ibrahimovic really needs no introduction.

Marcus Rashford has scored one goal from nine shots.

Sale awayThe Daily Mails Charles Sale is a man with an agenda. An unstintingly negative agenda.

This is him on former sports psychiatrist Steve Peters no longer working with England, and it is his lead item on Monday under the heading of Are England mad to ditch mind coach?

England footballers have given up travelling with a dedicated sports psychiatrist at the very time when they look as if they could do with extra support for their mental attitude.

There are plenty of unappetising games, such as Fridays dire match in Malta, when it proves difficult to inspire maximum performance from the players just where a trusted psychiatrist could prove useful.

As Sale points out later in the same piece: Peters has disappeared from the set-up since the Hodgson regime ended in abject failure at Euro 2016.

So it turns out that England footballers actually have given up travelling with a dedicated sports psychiatrist at the very time when they they proved that extra support for their mental attitude was not working.

And here is Sale on Ryan Giggs snubbing Malta:

Ryan Giggs is well known in Malta due to the time he has spent on the island, starting from his early days at Manchester United.

He also invested in a hotel group there with Gary Neville.

Nevertheless Giggs, along with ITV colleagues Paul Ince, Ian Wright and Glenn Hoddle, chose to return home from Malta as soon as possible after the game on Friday even if it meant a 5.30am exit from their hotel on Saturday.

It took about 93 seconds for Mediawatch to find out that Giggs had come home early to attend the2017 FAW McDonalds Community Awards. But why would Sale do any research when he can remain ignorantly pompous?

Summing up SouthgateI was having some interaction with Julen Lopetegui at a game where he was saying how lucky I was to have Harry playing.

Two words: Middle and management.

You know its international week whenThe Daily Mirrors back-page headline is NOW YOURE GURNER BELIEVE US because they have some pictures of England players pulling faces.

F***s sake.

Kane and unableMediawatch is enjoying the big talk about Harry Kane being world class after his two goals against Malta, with The Suns Charlie Wyett among those writing that with ten goals in 20 games, Kane has compared his scoring record to that of Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi in the early stages of their international career.

Tiny point: Ronaldo and Messi had in the early stages of their international career scored semi-final goals to reach the finals of a European Championship and a Copa America. Meanwhile, Harry Kane played four games at Euro 2016, scored no goals and looked generally pretty pony.

Lets hold those horses, eh.

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