Superstitions and rituals as a football supporter....

So chaps, do you have any or know of any superstitions or rituals in the football supporting community.

I only wash my home top when we lose (tis very clean right now).

A mate of mine walks the same way to the ground every game, touches Jackies boot (Milburn's that is... not some random lass from Byker) then goes into Shearers for exactly 2 pints of Carling.

Another mate stops drinking his pint if we score... sets it down... then only finishes it when or if we win. He gets other pints in the interim of course but only touches the 'lucky pint' once victory is secored (of course he has wasted a few beers this year)..

 

The guy beside me always brings copious amounts of chewing gum, soon as the game kicks off he offers it around, same again at half time, we always accept it, and we've done this silly ritual for that long, we're frightened to miss in case we jinx the game.

 

So that's where you get all the gum on your shoes that you tread into the carpet when you get home.

 

I take a packet of Polo's every game (not so lucky Polo's this season)

 

Maybe a change to softmints for the next one?

 

everyone around me was thinking of Gobstoppers

 

im the same as you albert, only wash when we loose, im getting to used to the smell of comfort right now! i want a nice stinky B.O smelling newcastle top (like the start of last season!)

 

Just before kick off I always look in Gallowgate East corner where I used to stand with my dad and cross my fingers.

 

I used to always wear 1 black sock 1 white for the match

 

hell yeah bro... the smellier the better!

 

Always get missus to make me a cooked breakfast before setting off. Always park in exactly the same spot in Jesmond (on the rare occasion the space is taken I break out into a sweat). Always get my scarf from the car boot and kiss it before wrapping it round my neck. Always walk through the same turnstile.
Oh dear, reading this back, this is beginning to look less like superstition and more like OCD.

 

No ritual for me, DT has recently developed one though which I make fun of... She has to walk from Haymarket bus stop, cross over next to Eldon square bus stop, walk past the Goose and pick up her programme from the lad outside Tesco, before walking up to the ground past Greggs and using the exact same set of stairs to the turnstile... What a freak!

Now, if you'll excuse me ladies and gents, I have to make exactly 14 more posts on here today, otherwise one of my family members will develop a cough...

 

This isn't you in this pic is it?

Somebody mentioned that he smelled as if he hadn't been washed for a decade or two.

 

Jesus H Christ, how hairy is his face???

 

sometimes I like to wear a colo wig, looking slightly like a tranny....whilst getting served in Shearers.

 

Can't see his face for the dirt.

 

I saw a tranny once in Shearer's, wearing a custard and cream deckchair top.

 

Not related to Newcastle, but I know a guy who plays for a local team who at the start of every home game, goes to one of the goals (always the same one) and Glasgow kisses it.

One day me and a mate went up to him and asked why. He said that one match, about 5 years ago, he ran into that very post and got concussion. They were 1-0 down with 10 mins left and hass no subs left. He is 'persuaded' by his manager to stay on to try to help get an equalizer.

He went on to score 4 goals in 8 minutes and won the match 4-2 (he went off to hospital at 4-1...). To this day, he still nuts the post at the start of every game