Is Rafa Benitez becoming the Riddler? Examining his success and legacy.

By Neal Hepworth, writing from Middlesbrough

I’m waiting for the moment after the next Champions League game, the moment when the press turn up to an Inter Milan press conference to be greeted by a large white sign. The sign is placed delicately in the chair where manager Rafa Benitez is supposed to be answering questions from…

The sign says:

There are three men in a boat with four cigarettes and no matches. How do they manage to smoke?

As the journalists look around in a state of bemusement a flash bang goes off, and as the gathered media struggle to see through the light and smoke a slightly rotund man clad in green and purple stands on the table cackling: ‘They threw one cigarette overboard and made it a cigarette lighter!’. He throws what looks like Christian Purslow dressed as Batman over his shoulder and jumps head first out of the nearest window. Only as they groggily bring themselves to their feet does it dawn on them that the masked villain is the very man they’ve been waiting to interview.

(Source: philosofooty)