My memory is vague these days, but wasn’t the Sunderland Saturday night football paper always pink, until we were relegated in 1959 (?) and the publishers vowed it would be white until we got back into the (then) first division, when it returned to being pink?
You've set me thinking here, always dangerous, but I remember the football echo being green for a period following another relegation it then returned to being pink when we were promoted.
