The other day, whilst my team were 2-0 down I left the pub I was watching the match in and took a walk, only sneaking back for a look when I heard a huge roar coming from another pub. I then went back to check the score only at the supposedly
lucky pub and made sure I never set foot in the unlucky one until the final whistle had gone!
This is just one of countless superstitions I have probably irrationally engaged in over the years - I'll post some as I remember then but I can tell you one thing - it wasn't Ferguson's four-pronged strikeforce of Yorke, Cole, Sheringham and Solskjaer who won the Treble of 1998/99, but my stash of Werther's Originals in my left-hand coat pocket, one of which would be consumed whenever a late winner or equaliser were required. This happened on so many occasions including at the Nou Camp on that famous night - I still wonder where my medal went to
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Most of us football fans are superstitious, so let's hear of your weirdest superstitions and pre-match rituals, be it wearing the same clothes on a winning run, food related or whatever! Oh, and it doesn't even have to be football related, although I find us footie fans are the worst offenders
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For quite a few years now, while watching the Wolves, I only start clapping when the announcer says "and our team, Wolverhampton Wanderers". I used to stand absolutely motionless and not acknowledge the opposing team at all.
Now I always wear the same baseball cap to games, home or away.
Any time I wear a Villa shirt either to the match or just wear one on match day they would lose, even friendlies, so I havent worn one on the day they play for about 5 years, only trouble is they now lose whatever I wear
Not me personally but the whole of the Tottenham team, every time they play in the Champions League they give Harry Redknapp a heart scare as they think this will bring goals goals goals
(05-04-2011 20:55 )mitchell Wrote: [ -> ]Not me personally but the whole of the Tottenham team, every time they play in the Champions League they give Harry Redknapp a heart scare as they think this will bring goals goals goals
i dont get
have you had a bump on the head ? as im sure before i left you were actually funny
sorry.....................it's me, hitmeuptop by the way xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
its not a superstition as such but i had a bet in the 99 champs league final for munich half time and man utd full time, be about 28/1 if i remember. they was scoring that many late goals that season and coming from behind so thought it would be a good bet. after 90 mins i thought they are'nt going to win now so i just sat on floor at my mates house whose house i was looking after at the time and i took a sock off, and man utd scored. then i thought fuck it, it worked once so i took the other sock off and it worked again.
I just have a few...
1) Back in my football playing days (Career cut short by horrific injury, but i could av been a pro i tells ya
)
i never liked to warm up using the ball...any touch of the ball before the game had kicked off would spell doom
for the team...14 wins in a row one season and we made the cup final. Warming up before the final itself, I did
as normal and took myself away from the other lads...I then get a shout of "Heads up" as an errant ball flew
towards my bonce..but alas too late
We lost 1-0 and i missed a sitter in the final few minutes.
2) I have a bit of OCD when it comes to locking the house up at night. I need to lock the doors and windows etc
in a certain order and that also goes for turning off electrical appliances. If for any reason i deviate from the
route i have to go back to the start and do it all over again..If I dont it surely means the Apocalypse is Nigh!
3) I always carry the exact same amount of money in my wallet on a weekday. This means that should the car
breakdown, i always have enough money to get a taxi home...I'll panic all day if I forget to go to the Cashpoint
(05-04-2011 22:03 )malicious fan Wrote: [ -> ]its not a superstition as such but i had a bet in the 99 champs league final for munich half time and man utd full time, be about 28/1 if i remember. they was scoring that many late goals that season and coming from behind so thought it would be a good bet. after 90 mins i thought they are'nt going to win now so i just sat on floor at my mates house whose house i was looking after at the time and i took a sock off, and man utd scored. then i thought fuck it, it worked once so i took the other sock off and it worked again.
Bloody hell Malicious! And there was me thinking it was just the Werther's Originals wot won it
! Mind you, there's a few on this forum who reckon you should put a sock in it
- no-one on here mind!
Great post AstonV1! It's always great to hear of the sort of shit that fucks with people's minds
One of mine is that I don't feel I can actually tell anyone what my current superstitions/rituals are because once they become public knowledge then their powers will cease to be
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But it's ok to talk about old ones; for a few years in the mid to late 1990s I would religiously have to have Golden Grahams for breakfast on a match-day, and of course for a long time it worked. The the local shops stopped selling it and it was a bit of a relief to stop eating them. I can't remember if it affected results though
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Regen, I think that your baseball cap superstition is probably one of the commonest out there as obvious clothes ones are bound to be popular and quite a few people around me at Old Trafford are either in on the same ritual or don't possess many clothes
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And Staggerlee, perhaps your only hope is to start supporting the opposition if you want Villa to win mate
Thanks and keep 'em coming lads
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it wasnt the werthers or my sock removal that won it mate. in the end it was shite german defending, which you dont see very often
I play Junior Football, which i would guess is the Irish equivalent of yer own Sunday League Football and just before the start of every game i play, or if i'm coming on as sub (which doesnt happen too often
) i'll pick a few blades of grass from the pitch and tuck them into my sock. It's something i've done since i was a kid playing underage footy and i've no idea why i started doing it. It's a bit of a weird superstition, and serves no purpose as it hasnt resulted in any miraculous undefeated streak. It's just something i do and something i'll always do for as long as i play.....