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Superstition has been part of Football since the game began. Players, managers, supporters-few wrapped up in emotion of the sport are able to resist a lucky charm that, as illogical as it sounds, could just make the difference between winning and losing.
The newcastle team of the early 1900s believed they would win if they saw a wedding on their way to a match, and lose if they saw a funeral. Ipswich put their run of victories in the 1953-54 season down to the seven-leaf clover given them by an American(?) fan!
RABBITS FOOT
Dave sexton not only wore the same jacket when winning two cups with Chelsea and while presiding over league title challenges with QPR and ManU but also kept the same rabbits Foot in his pocket(YUK!)
DANCING SHOES
Jimmy Melia wore his white dancing shoes to the FA cup final with Brighton in 1983. The story goes that the manager forgot to change his shoes, before one Cup-tie that followed a dancing session and ended up wearing them all the way to wembley.......
PUDDING EQUALS POINTS
After the 1927 FA cup final when goalkeeper Dan Lewis blamed his slippery new jersey for the goal(hehe) that denied Arsenal the trophy, it became a tradition for the clubs keepers to wash new Jerseys before playing in them.(How about that).
Some players have lucky pre-match meals(dont ask!). The Derby goalkeeper in the 1890s was always provided with rice pudding in response to his prediction: "No pudding, No points!"
ALL IN THE MIND
Weird and wonderful methods have been used in the treatment of injuries. One particular trainer believed that muscle strains were best relieved by sleeping with a nutmeg in-side a red-spotted hankie placed beneath a pillow. Then there was the club doctor who told of the player whose imagined ankle in-jury was treated by weekly injections of sterilised water instead of pain killers. "It was all in his mind", said the doctor.
MONKEY-GLANDS, SPATS AND HORSESHOES
Monkey-gland injections were a much-publicized feature of Wolverhampton Wanderers' preparations for the 1939 FA cup final against Portsmouth whose manager, Jack Tinn, sported a pair of lucky white spats, Tinn insisted that they were fastened before each game by Winger Fred Worall who himself carried a lucky sixpence and minature horseshoe.
I’ve just given you some of the wackiest, Stupidest and smelliest superstitions Players and Managers can have just to win a game. But nowadays surely people like us must have grown out of silly superstitions, haven’t we?
:)
The newcastle team of the early 1900s believed they would win if they saw a wedding on their way to a match, and lose if they saw a funeral. Ipswich put their run of victories in the 1953-54 season down to the seven-leaf clover given them by an American(?) fan!
RABBITS FOOT
Dave sexton not only wore the same jacket when winning two cups with Chelsea and while presiding over league title challenges with QPR and ManU but also kept the same rabbits Foot in his pocket(YUK!)
DANCING SHOES
Jimmy Melia wore his white dancing shoes to the FA cup final with Brighton in 1983. The story goes that the manager forgot to change his shoes, before one Cup-tie that followed a dancing session and ended up wearing them all the way to wembley.......
PUDDING EQUALS POINTS
After the 1927 FA cup final when goalkeeper Dan Lewis blamed his slippery new jersey for the goal(hehe) that denied Arsenal the trophy, it became a tradition for the clubs keepers to wash new Jerseys before playing in them.(How about that).
Some players have lucky pre-match meals(dont ask!). The Derby goalkeeper in the 1890s was always provided with rice pudding in response to his prediction: "No pudding, No points!"
ALL IN THE MIND
Weird and wonderful methods have been used in the treatment of injuries. One particular trainer believed that muscle strains were best relieved by sleeping with a nutmeg in-side a red-spotted hankie placed beneath a pillow. Then there was the club doctor who told of the player whose imagined ankle in-jury was treated by weekly injections of sterilised water instead of pain killers. "It was all in his mind", said the doctor.
MONKEY-GLANDS, SPATS AND HORSESHOES
Monkey-gland injections were a much-publicized feature of Wolverhampton Wanderers' preparations for the 1939 FA cup final against Portsmouth whose manager, Jack Tinn, sported a pair of lucky white spats, Tinn insisted that they were fastened before each game by Winger Fred Worall who himself carried a lucky sixpence and minature horseshoe.
I’ve just given you some of the wackiest, Stupidest and smelliest superstitions Players and Managers can have just to win a game. But nowadays surely people like us must have grown out of silly superstitions, haven’t we?
:)
another ridiculous superstition is when paul ince comes out of the players tunnel, he puts his shirt on.
pointless or what?
pointless or what?
I think it was Bolton???
Anyway, one team moved the centre-spot from their old pitch to their new stadium. Superstition???
And the Reebok Stadium sounds right.
Anyway, one team moved the centre-spot from their old pitch to their new stadium. Superstition???
And the Reebok Stadium sounds right.
Rumour has it that the then birmingham city manager p*ssed in all 4 courners of the pitch to rid the curse which stops them from getting promoted.
gary megson refused manager of the month because he thought it would make him lose
good post, i agree football is tired of superstitions.
Superstition has been part of Football since the game began. Players, managers, supporters-few wrapped up in emotion of the sport are able to resist a lucky charm that, as illogical as it sounds, could just make the difference between winning and losing.
The newcastle team of the early 1900s believed they would win if they saw a wedding on their way to a match, and lose if they saw a funeral. Ipswich put their run of victories in the 1953-54 season down to the seven-leaf clover given them by an American(?) fan!
RABBITS FOOT
Dave sexton not only wore the same jacket when winning two cups with Chelsea and while presiding over league title challenges with QPR and ManU but also kept the same rabbits Foot in his pocket(YUK!)
DANCING SHOES
Jimmy Melia wore his white dancing shoes to the FA cup final with Brighton in 1983. The story goes that the manager forgot to change his shoes, before one Cup-tie that followed a dancing session and ended up wearing them all the way to wembley.......
PUDDING EQUALS POINTS
After the 1927 FA cup final when goalkeeper Dan Lewis blamed his slippery new jersey for the goal(hehe) that denied Arsenal the trophy, it became a tradition for the clubs keepers to wash new Jerseys before playing in them.(How about that).
Some players have lucky pre-match meals(dont ask!). The Derby goalkeeper in the 1890s was always provided with rice pudding in response to his prediction: "No pudding, No points!"
ALL IN THE MIND
Weird and wonderful methods have been used in the treatment of injuries. One particular trainer believed that muscle strains were best relieved by sleeping with a nutmeg in-side a red-spotted hankie placed beneath a pillow. Then there was the club doctor who told of the player whose imagined ankle in-jury was treated by weekly injections of sterilised water instead of pain killers. "It was all in his mind", said the doctor.
MONKEY-GLANDS, SPATS AND HORSESHOES
Monkey-gland injections were a much-publicized feature of Wolverhampton Wanderers' preparations for the 1939 FA cup final against Portsmouth whose manager, Jack Tinn, sported a pair of lucky white spats, Tinn insisted that they were fastened before each game by Winger Fred Worall who himself carried a lucky sixpence and minature horseshoe.
I’ve just given you some of the wackiest, Stupidest and smelliest superstitions Players and Managers can have just to win a game. But nowadays surely people like us must have grown out of silly superstitions, haven’t we?
:)
The newcastle team of the early 1900s believed they would win if they saw a wedding on their way to a match, and lose if they saw a funeral. Ipswich put their run of victories in the 1953-54 season down to the seven-leaf clover given them by an American(?) fan!
RABBITS FOOT
Dave sexton not only wore the same jacket when winning two cups with Chelsea and while presiding over league title challenges with QPR and ManU but also kept the same rabbits Foot in his pocket(YUK!)
DANCING SHOES
Jimmy Melia wore his white dancing shoes to the FA cup final with Brighton in 1983. The story goes that the manager forgot to change his shoes, before one Cup-tie that followed a dancing session and ended up wearing them all the way to wembley.......
PUDDING EQUALS POINTS
After the 1927 FA cup final when goalkeeper Dan Lewis blamed his slippery new jersey for the goal(hehe) that denied Arsenal the trophy, it became a tradition for the clubs keepers to wash new Jerseys before playing in them.(How about that).
Some players have lucky pre-match meals(dont ask!). The Derby goalkeeper in the 1890s was always provided with rice pudding in response to his prediction: "No pudding, No points!"
ALL IN THE MIND
Weird and wonderful methods have been used in the treatment of injuries. One particular trainer believed that muscle strains were best relieved by sleeping with a nutmeg in-side a red-spotted hankie placed beneath a pillow. Then there was the club doctor who told of the player whose imagined ankle in-jury was treated by weekly injections of sterilised water instead of pain killers. "It was all in his mind", said the doctor.
MONKEY-GLANDS, SPATS AND HORSESHOES
Monkey-gland injections were a much-publicized feature of Wolverhampton Wanderers' preparations for the 1939 FA cup final against Portsmouth whose manager, Jack Tinn, sported a pair of lucky white spats, Tinn insisted that they were fastened before each game by Winger Fred Worall who himself carried a lucky sixpence and minature horseshoe.
I’ve just given you some of the wackiest, Stupidest and smelliest superstitions Players and Managers can have just to win a game. But nowadays surely people like us must have grown out of silly superstitions, haven’t we?
:)