Superstitions

Hemil

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Sometimes, changing something by yourself is all it takes for your team to score goals and win matches.

I never use twitter during the match. There have been many times where I have used twitter and Chelsea have conceded. Against PSG away match last season, I opened twitter around 85 minutes and PSG scored right at the depth. Since then, I have never pened twitter unless we are 2 or more goals up with little time left.

Also, during the 2008-09 CL knockouts, I used to sit in one particular place and keep the volume at the same level. I was so tense during the last few minutes and my friend called. I picked up and Iniesta scored in the 93rd minute.

During the 2011-12 CL too, I had a similar ritual. During the Munich final where I was at a gathering with large screen, I was so tensed with the penalty shootout. I was closing my eyes while the kicks were taken. After Neuer scored, I got up from my position, went in front so a small TV and saw the penalties. And Chelsea scored 2 and Bayern couldn't and we won the cup.

Do you guys have any superstitons before and while watching the match?
 
Haha. I can't eat anything or be online when United play. Don't know why but food and football just don't mix well for me.
 
Very superstitioooous

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I always crack one off at half-time (on late kick-offs after the wife has gone to bed obviously(9 hours ahead here)). It's doesn't help us win always but it's fun.
 
I posted this after the 1-1 game with Chelsea last month:

With about 89 minutes played and United one goal down this morning (the match started at 5am here), I had a strange feeling; if I stopped watching, United would score a late equalizer. I may miss out on the moment of elation, but all the millions of United fans around the world would be happy. I've never felt this feeling before, and I don't know why I listened to it, but I did. I turned off the match, made some coffee, called in sick for work, and checked the result about 15 minutes later. Lo and behold I was right, Van Persie had equalized, and even though I missed it, I felt pretty happy, like I actually helped (I did, you're all welcome).

I have an Arsenal supporting mate who wears their yellow away kit from 2008-09 while watching a match just ONCE a season, because wearing it guarantees an Arsenal win but it won't work more than once, so he has to choose very carefully when to wear it. He swears it has worked every season, and while he may be lying about other years, I did watch the FA Cup final with him last season and he had it on.
 
I lack the discipline to consistently apply any kind of superstition when it comes to how I watch games.

I do get very uneasy with triumphalist threads on here. Like starting a thread saying such and such a striker is crap when we're about to play them.

Still emotionally scarred by the whole Alfonso Alves debacle, probably.
 
Not really superstitious but like Pogue, when watching a United match, I won't slag off any of the opposition players for being shit until the final whistle or before they get sent. I've seen on twitter too many cases of fans laughing about something one minute then being the joke the next.

I'm just careful what I tweet, write on here or put in a whatsapp group I'm in.
 
Only superstition I have is I never joke or slag of an opposition player because I know if I do it'll come back to haunt me!
 
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