Blancos fans in La Decimadreamland

The Real Madrid supporting press in the Spanish capital were unsurprisingly euphoric yesterday morning, as Blancos fans were reassured that it had not all been a dream – the night before their side really had finally secured the long-awaited tenth European Cup by beating city neighbours Atletico Madrid 4-1 after extra-time.

Marca’s cover screamed ‘La Decima’ in huge letters, over a photo of Real defender Sergio Ramos celebrating the 93rd minute headed equaliser, scored just as it seemed Atletico had hung on for a famous upset.

Rival AS , below, had ‘10 out of 10’ on its front — over a giant picture of a euphoric Blancos captain Iker Casillas lifting the trophy after Gareth Bale, Marcelo and Cristiano Ronaldo had wrapped up the win.

The AS match report was fully aware of the historic significance of this moment.

“Sorry for the chaos,” Juanma Trueba wrote. “It’s a heavy responsibility to write for an edition of the paper that won’t be used to wrap fish and chips, but will be kept for posterity, read again and again over the years, usually when moving house, how many tears are shed when moving house!

“Maybe it’ll be a newspaper found by accident, because the intention was to destroy it. Hello from the past, citizens of the future: what you lived through was true, move house in peace, cry at your leisure. Madrid won, and it was the Decima.”

A bumper 96 page Marca had photo after photo of celebrating galacticos Bale and Ronaldo, as well as coach Carlo Ancelotti getting the bumps and president Florentino Perez with arms raised in the stands. There were also various versions of the already viral photo of Casillas — who had been at fault for Diego Godin’s opening goal for Atletico — planting a relieved kiss on Ramos’ cheek after his long-time friend had equalised.

El Pais captured the other side of the drama, recalling that Atletico had also been denied by a late equaliser in their only other European Cup final — exactly 40 years ago against Bayern Munich.

“The European Cup was so consistent with its history that, as for the tenth time it crowned Real Madrid, its king of kings, it condemned Atletico in a way just as cruel as four decades ago. Then too the rojiblancos were left just seconds away.”