People losing their jobs and livelihoods is never a laughing matter and sadly the press and media industry has been too full of stories about redundancies recently.

Still, one can always rely on that most positive-thinking of demographics – the modern football fan – to shed a little comedy where others see only misery.

Last year Trinity Mirror announced it wanted to move printing of the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo out of the city to Oldham – a town not too far away from the home of Liverpool FC’s biggest rivals, Manchester United.

So the inevitable has happened according to the Twitter feed of journalism lecturer and blogger Andy Dickinson

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