Bela Guttman1.The 52-year curse of Bela Guttman continues for Benfica as Portuguese club fall short in eighth European final with Europa League defeat against Sevilla.
The Bela Guttmann curse is almost 50 years old but we will never know exactly what the great Hungarian coach once said.
The classic, most popular version claims that he decreed upon his acrimonious departure in 1962: "Not in 100 years from now will Benfica win a European Cup." The accuracy of that statement, however, is far from certain.
The reason for Guttmannâs abrupt exit from Lisbon was all about the Benfica managementâs refusal to pay him a bonus for winning the European Cup twice in a row. Alternative theories say that he stated in an interview that it would be 100 years before another Portuguese team managed to win back-to-back European Cups.
2.The Curse of 1940 was a mythical explanation for the failure of the NHL's New York Rangers to win the Stanley Cup since 1940. It was broken when the Rangers defeated the Vancouver Canucks 4-3 in 1994.
3."During his spell as Birmingham City manager, Barry Fry famously urinated on the pitch to break a gypsy curse on the club," starts Lucy Morrissey promisingly. "Are there any other examples of supernatural curses on clubs, and are any stadiums around the world haunted
