We’ve written some bad headlines in our time, but this takes the biscuit.
Colombia’s James Rodriguez has probably been the star of the World Cup so far, illuminating the tournament with some fantastic skills and magnificent goals, including the belter of a left-foot volley he scored against Uruguay on Saturday night.
Understandably, he’s been commanding a lot of attention from the media all around the world, including The Times of India, where a piece about the Monaco youngster was given the following headline today…
This has to be the worst headline ever written pic.twitter.com/toWHhpNWlp
— Ross Loraine (@RossLoraine) July 1, 2014
We all know what they’re trying to do, but it clearly doesn’t work and it gets even more murky when you consider that Rodriguez’s first name, as commentators have been pained to tell us in the last few weeks, is pronounced Ham-ez.
The Times of India certainly made a ham-ez of that headline anyway, wha? We’ll get our coats.
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