The purpose of the article was partly, as others said, trolling for hits; but remember, also, partly to give everyone RH has pissed off in his life (Hay, Harris etc etc) a boner. The more petty people in the world, of whom there are thousands in Auckland football, love nothing better than a good ol' fashioned grave-dance.
Stuff have closed down their dedicated football twitter, so there's another reason to only read the Herald, or possibly the ODT.