The Power of the Headline

By: chris | January 29th, 2010

rafa-benitez-460-280865332 As you may have heard, Ciro Ferrara was finally sacked today after Juventus’ domestic tour on the art of collapsing, and replaced by “caretaker manager” Alberto Zaccheroni until the end of this campaign. (You may remember the last caretaker/interim manager they had was…Ciro Ferrara, who took over for Claudio Ranieri during the final weeks of last season.) This has been well out in the open for some time. What’s been just as out in the open is that Juventus are lining up Rafa Benitez in the summer.

Rafa has offered a comment on this. What did he say? Well, it depends on who you ask….

Arguably two of the more respected English-languaged outfits, The Guardian & Reuters, feature this as the top story.

Guardian:

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Reuters:

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The quote:

“I know that they (Juventus) were interested but that is part of the game now in football but I am just preparing for the Bolton game,” he said. “I think when you are a manager and clubs ask then you have to be proud because they are a big club and a top side in Europe.

“But I am really pleased here and really happy and I want to do my job as best as I can.”

One quote, one picture, two vastly different intimations.

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Category: English Premier League, Serie A, World Football

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Luka

Hahaha. Just lol @ everything. The Offside is like the world's anti-moderator.
Laurie

Those thieves! That is absolutely Chris's screen grab!
chris

http://www.theoffside.com/worl...
Juliet

That headline recently made it to FailBlog in case you want to find it again. http://failblog.org/2010/01/25...
Ed

I absent-mindedly typed in "Old Lady unable to master BATE" on a school computer...in hindsight, probably not the best thing to have in my search history, considering the results.
laurie

Ian, it was only up for a very short time before some killjoy editor made them change it. But Chris brilliantly did a screen grab before that happened. It's in our archives somewhere.
Ian

Chris - I missed that last year, and that is absolutely classic. Agreed, that should retire Old Lady double-entendre for at least a decade.
chris

Anything involving innuendo and the Old Lady is weak, half-arsed tripe until someone can top goal.com's 'Old Lady unable to master BATE' after the 1-1 draw last year.
Ed

I know you were going for reputable, but still, you could have included the sexually charged, "Rafa Benitez isn't seduced by the Old Lady..." from the Mail. There's only one intimation there.