Yes, that’s a real headline over at Soccernet.
Here’re the first three grafs for context’s sake:
BERN, Switzerland, July 31 (Reuters) - The supporters of Young Boys Bern have not had too much to celebrate in the 19 years since their team last won the Swiss league title.Long since eclipsed by the likes of FC Basel and Grasshoppers Zurich, the club from the Swiss capital has even got a reputation for enjoying its status as a perennial loser.
But this weekend Young Boys sought to shake off their old image by officially opening the 32,000 Stade de Suisse Wankdorf stadium — which cost 350 million Swiss francs ($271.3 million) — with an uncharacteristically flashy homecoming party.
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Hi Newley, my friends and I have been laughing over this for the last few weeks and pointing it out to like minded soccer fans. I like in England and friends ask me how any editor can have been dumb enough to have let this through. As a Brit who lived several years in the USA my only possible explanation is that the w*nk term isn’t in common usage in the USA and Soccernet is a USA site, though I would have thought that this title would still have appeared very odd and suspicious. Still, I’m glad it made it through!
Hi, Gary. Thanks for writing — the headline and the story really cracked me up. I believe, though, that the Soccernet site is run by English journalists working out of the ESPN office in New York or Connecticut. So perhaps, yes, they penned the hilarious headline and then it slipped under the radar of American editors who weren’t well enough attuned to British sarcasm (and use of the word “wank”)!
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