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12:09 UK time, Monday, 7 February 2011

A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.

Footballer has first name that is also a song by a cult Swedish pop band of yesteryear.

Cue an abba-lanche of puns in Monday's papers.

THE STORY: Fernando Torres plays his first match for Chelsea after his £50m switch from Liverpool. It's against Liverpool and he fails to score in a 0-1 defeat.

THE PUNS:

"FERNAN-DOH!" (Mail)

"GOOD FER NOTHING" (Sun)

"HELL NINO" (Mirror)

"FERNAND'OH" (Mirror)

"£50M SUB STORY" (Daily Star)

What? Not an Abba reference in sight.

At least Sky Sports ventured where the papers feared to tread, by using Abba's Fernando as the soundtrack to an evaluation of the match.

And ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Radio 5live's Abba-esque suggested headline was: "Can you hear the glums, Fernando?"

Could you do any better?

In the spirit of a certain pun-fest that used to reside in these pages, come up with your punning headlines for some of today's news stories, using the comments form below.

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