In a major UK newspaper, I was embarrassed to read their best headline of the day. “Sean of the Red”. This might be a reference, cleverly, to the 39 days Ange lasted and the sacking of Nuno after getting Forest into Europe, or maybe the journalist was a Forest fan and his favourite song is Mull of Kintyre.

He did have a ginger bonnet in the 90’s. The real question is what is the greatest sports headline ever?

Email your suggestions to phil@thefileonline.com.

One of my favourites was when Inverness Caledonian Thistle dumped Celtic out of the Scottish cup and then

“Super Caley Go Ballistic Celtic are Atrocious.”

Well Done that man.

So, I asked a very knowledgeable female friend and her favourite was a headline after the mighty Juventus got held to a draw by Bate Borisov.  “Old lady unable to Master Bate at home.  I would imagine if we offered a prize for the best one, it would be obscure or maybe in a local. Common lads and lassies, get your favourites to us at phil@thefileonline.com.

Being Scottish, I am going to mention a famous defeat for England and the next days an enormous headline spanning the full width of two pages.

“Swedes 2 Turnips !”

And just to even it up, here is a leveller “Scotland team’s unheroic failure ends …”

We don’t even have to engage with classic headlines with the Irish. We can just chuckle at the  latest Roy Keane adverts. I hope he likes ice cream!!

Let’s not forget that a play on words also gets traction.  Seamans Woes and Fuchs off to Benfica.