Ant n' deck, new boy sees United KO foxes on the box

[Kontol]

Could you explain what "Ant n' deck" means in this newspaper headline? The writer goes on to say "on the box", usually I hear the commentator say "in the box", is the "on" or "in" interchangeable in this case?

 

[Rover_KE]

Ant and Dec are a popular duo of presenters on British TV. The Sun's headline is a pun – and a bad one, because whilst 'Ant' refers to Manchester United's new signing, Anthony, it's unclear (to me) what they mean by 'dec'.

' … on the box’ means ‘on TV’, as the report states.

 

[jutfrank]

The pun on deck is that 'to deck somebody' means something like 'knock somebody out' (or rather 'knock somebody to the ground').