Paper Monitor
13:32 UK time, Tuesday, 15 May 2012
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
There must be a blueprint somewhere for sub-editors searching for headlines on the theme of... triumphal colours.
Today the newspapers have been swept up in a tide of colour-related metaphors as Manchester City surprised the footballing world by grabbing a last-minute victory from its red-rivals Manchester United. That happened on Sunday, but the party stretched into an open-top bus victory parade on Monday.
The Daily Star's headline "Sea of Blue" could have referred either to this parade or to the glorious technicolour employed by its production team to bring the news to its public against a perfectly matched background. The paper appears to be on Cloud Nine, raving over City's "Blueties" and breathlessly declaring the crowds to be in "blue heaven".
The Daily Mirror is similarly impressed by the level of popular support for those true blues, dubbing the team's reception in Manchester to be "FANtastic".
The Dailies Mail and Telegraph share the headline "City Paint the Town Blue" - showing the gamut of colour-related puns to be nearly exhausted at this stage.
But the The Times remarks the event could be "Once in a blue moon" (rather snidely, to Paper Monitor's mind - is the Thunderer a United fan?). Perhaps a bit more blue-sky thinking required...
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