Usually when anger strikes you see red but when Premier Michael Dunkley entered his office yesterday morning to find he had been duped, all he could see was blue and blue.

Mischievous colleagues from the Cabinet Office, he suspects, had decked out this devout Somerset fan’s entire office with the St George’s colours, even taking the effort to hide his little red and blue Gombey doll behind a curtain.

A map of Bermuda on the wall painted in red and blue was draped in a St George’s flag while metallic blue balloons and streamers hung from every crevice. It was an east ender’s Cup Match dream.

Mr Dunkley invited The Royal Gazette to his office to see, first hand, the damage that had been done.

He told us: “In my time here as Premier, they know where my colours lie.

“It was very clear to me that there are a lot of St George’s fans in the Cabinet office so I am not too surprised. What is interesting about it is I can’t find any leads at this time about who might have done it because everybody has denied any involvement and some of the chief culprits have plausible excuses.

“I called in special branch but they tell me they are too busy with Cup Match. As I have told the Cabinet Secretary [Derrick Binns] several times, revenge is a dish best served cold.”

Asked whether the overwhelming sight of blue and blue on his own territory had affected his Cup Match persuasions at all, the Premier responded: “Cup Match is a time where everyone enjoys the holiday and celebrates and remembers how we got here. There is no question in my mind that someone went to a great degree of effort to do all of this but let there be no question, I will not be changing teams.

“But I will be in St George’s for the two days and on Saturday when I come into the office to catch up on some work, I will be in comfort with the blue and blue because I will know they gave it their best effort but the cup is still in the west end of the Island.”