Wolverhampton Wanderers manager, Rob Edwards, thought ‘Rage Bait’ was a pesticide used to control or destroy pests.
As Rob Edwards – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Edwards_(footballer,_born_1982) – prepared his team to face Nottingham Forest on Wednesday night at Molineux, Edwards was asked by the club’s Canadian caterer, Kenton Carnegie, if he knew what the Word of the Year was.
Edwards told Carnegie that he had heard on the radio in the car that the word of the year was ‘Rage Bait’, but he couldn’t understand what the Oxford Dictionary found so special about a brand of pesticide.
When Carnegie announced to the rest of the team what Edwards had said, it emerged that, when Edwards joined Wolves on 12th November, 2025, he was under the impression that Molineux Stadium was named after the 18th-century bareknuckle boxer, Tom Molineaux.
Rob Edwards thought ‘Rage Bait’ was two words.
“We had to enlighten him,” said Wolves chairman, Jeff Sh!t. “Everyone at the club knows that Molineux is named after the illiterate wolf pelt salesman, Benjamin Molineux, from Dudley.”
“He’s not very good with his words,” concluded, Sh!t. “He’s not that smart. When we explained to Rob that ‘Rage Bait’ was a word to describe online content that was deliberately designed to elicit anger or rage, Rob replied that ‘Rage Bait’ was in fact two words.”
Of course, as Casper Grathwohl, president of Oxford Languages, explained, the two words become one when used as a hyphenated compound phrase – https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/dec/01/rage-bait-named-word-of-the-year-by-oxford-university-press .
Rock Bottom Rage.
Looking to use ‘Rage Bait’ on Wednesday to enrage the fans of the opposition, Rob Edwards is more than aware that his side sits rock-bottom of the Premier League, and he will try his very best to manipulate a victory for his side against fellow strugglers, Nottingham Forest.
Edwards thought Rage Bait was a pesticide, and he also believes his side can break double figures before New Year’s Day – something else he is very wrong about.
Tree Seasons Prediction: Morgan Gibbs-White’s Dog 1 – Wandering Wolves 0.
