Subheadlines at FanFooty

[keyboard]

Hi to the board
I'm not a big poster - I mainly just drop by to see what sort of flogging my Supercoach team is taking...
I'm just wondering, about the subheadlines on the front page...
Is that an in-joke here, the cryptic literary references?
Just wondering  :P


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[keyboard]

What I mean is, page editors usually try for a catchy/witty subheadline.
"MORE AND MOORE PIES DOWN" is standard fare in a "oh yeah I get it" sort of way.
But "TIGERS RED IN TOOTH AND CLAW", is from Tennyson's "In Memorium":

Who trusted God was love indeed
And love Creation's final law
Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw
With ravine, shriek'd against his creed

This is a little unusual for sports journalism, as is:
"DONS DONE BY WORPEL DAGGER" which seems to be a reference to Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky":

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

What is going on here   :o


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[PowerBug]

The overlord m0nty being witty. Nothing more to it haha

[keyboard]

The overlord m0nty being witty. Nothing more to it haha

Oh, OK.
It's not bad.


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