It’s International Women’s Day, and Erling Haaland and West Ham are marking the occasion with some well intentioned but very awkward content.
Haaland (or most likely his social media team) posted a special edition IWD word search on Instagram, which was for some reason called a crossword puzzle.
“This is for all my female fans on this special day!” Haaland (or someone paid by Haaland) said. “Here’s my message to each one of you. Can you find it in this crossword puzzle?”
In case you don’t want to actually do the work yourself, we have taken the liberty: “You all make the world a much better place.”
Aw.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CphitVbOkyZ/?hl=en
Joining Haaland in the “good intentions but weird execution” category is West Ham, whose players took to the pitch in training tops with the names of important women in their lives on the back.
To celebrate #IWD2023, our players wore tops bearing the names of the special women in their lives 💜 pic.twitter.com/YYRN3nUvBH
— West Ham United (@WestHam) March 8, 2023
Most players opted for their mothers, wives or grandmothers. Great! Who can argue with that? But while “Mum” or “Nan” looks perfectly reasonable, even adorable, on the back of a jersey, this one hits a little different.
Surely she has a name??
Michail Antonio went in a different direction too, though we have absolutely no quibbles with the idea or execution.
Important woman in your life?
West Ham squad: ‘Mum’ ‘Nan’ ‘wife’
Michail Antonio: pic.twitter.com/QFmsruabmR
— AntoniFans (@Antoni_Fans) March 8, 2023
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