On one of our regular trawls through the regional press for headlines which are good, bad or just plain bizarre, we liked this one from the Aberdeen Evening Express when Leicester City made a last-ditch bid to keep manager Martin O’Neill from joining Celtic…

This one had a certain something…

And haven’t we all felt like this on a long afternoon with a screen full of dull copy…

It’s the tedium which can lead to a very rare mistake by an otherwise brilliant sub, like these two…

If you’ve seen a classic headline – good or bad – anywhere in the regional press, fax it to us, marked for the attention of Elaine Pritchard, on 01332 253027

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