A quiet day and no new gossip. Saw this Match of the Day presenter says "Is this for real?" before every show. "It's all because of a bad experience we had while filming at Wolves in the early days of my presenting career. "We'd started the show, I'd turned to Hansen and asked a question to kick things off but he just ignored me. "The problem was he thought it was a rehearsal so he didn't take a blind bit of notice. "He might have even been flicking through a paper, I can't remember. "Panicking, I looked to Lawro but he just shrugged and pulled a funny face. "Assuming it was me who had got it wrong, I said 'Are we not on air yet?' "Then instantly in my ear the editor roared: 'Oh yes we f***ing well are!' "You should have seen Hansen jump up out of his seat! Everybody sprang into action. "It sounds silly but now I always have to ask out loud: 'Is this for real?'" Anyone got any football superstitions. Lucky shirts/pants etc. Read that during a winning run of results, Neil Warnock will stop at traffic lights on his way home - even if they are GREEN! Any other strange ones?
I have noticed that in Southampton people are always jumping the lights. In Eastleigh no one uses their indicators. On the Isle of Wight no one ever gets out of third gear. In Portsmouth everyone is perfect. Just ask them.
My superstition was to avoid cracks in pavement on match day and to say we'd win if I reached a certain point on a path before a car passed me, but I stopped all this for the last two seasons. I was so confident that I abandoned all superstitions. I reckoned the team didn't need me. Perhaps I need to resurrect a few for the PL.
Do you think that all our superstitions are the reason that Saints struggled....once we stopped doing them, we got two promotions.
Every time I used to hear someone mention the name 'Fred Dineage', I would have to shout "...is a cook-pass babtridge" three times while spinning around on my head and drinking the blood of a virgin.
All superstitions are strange aren't they. All you have to do is stop for a second and think about how the universe works and you realise what an idiot you're being.
Doesn't matter whether you know its stupid or not, most people do it even if they are not aware at the time...touch wood etc. I think it's part of the human condition to try and control the uncontrollables...it's thought that cave paintings were attempts by man to get control over their prey and ensure food supplies (or it was early attempts at William Morris wallpaper)
However, you do have an irrational fear of other people doing something that makes them feel better and does no harm. Very few people actually believe that what they do will affect Saints in anyway...if they did it would be called a religion. Whoops...pressed another of your buttons
Haha I wouldn't call it an irrational fear, though for someone to rely on a superstitious belief could well do them some harm if it means that they reject modern medicine or something like that. Religion is something I don't have a major problem with, though I don't want any part of it myself. I can see more logic in the major religions than I can in most superstitious practices.
