The Cheltenham Festival is big news for the Daily Star and as the puffs offering free bets get bigger, so the splashes this week have been disappearing. Today's is the shallowest of the week, yet manages to include a main head, subdeck, picture and a few words of text. Some achievement.
The ginger rats on Tuesday occupied even less space, as they had to surrender a column to the FA Cup puff.
Is this devaluation of the main story new? No, we saw a similar phenomenon in Cheltenham week last year - when the bet offer was worth more and spiders, rather than rats, were the pesky distraction.
The ginger rats on Tuesday occupied even less space, as they had to surrender a column to the FA Cup puff.
Is this devaluation of the main story new? No, we saw a similar phenomenon in Cheltenham week last year - when the bet offer was worth more and spiders, rather than rats, were the pesky distraction.
But festival week was the only time that this happened in 2014, whereas we've already seen the shrunken splash a couple of times this year:
That New Year's Day alliterative altercation holds the record for the smallest Star splash to date, both in height and width. And here below are the top, or bottom, six in size order:
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