Liverpool Football Club Under 29yr curse, Doomed To Fail Again On Sunday over support for same s@x marriage and sponsorship of gay parade.
There are a few other well-known football clubs that have believed they were operating under the weight of some supernatural force over the years and took action to break their hexes.
Leeds manager Don Revie was rumored to have employed a gypsy to cleanse Elland Road of evil spirits during the 1970’s.
Derby County have their own gypsy curse story. The Derby legend involves a ball bursting mid-match after gipsies were asked to remove their hoodoo for an FA Cup match. Why the original curse was specifically tailored to cover only FA Cup competitions was unclear in my research.
Southampton had a Celtic ritual performed on the pitch at St Mary’s in 2001 after they changed stadiums and went on an extended winless streak.
Benfica is half-way through a hundred-year curse placed upon them by former manager Bela Guttman after he was refused a pay raise despite winning the European Cup in 1960 and ’61. They’re just waiting it out.
Argentinian side Racing Club tried to end a hex through a series of excavations to remove seven cat corpses that were buried by rival Independiente supporters in 1967. The last kitty was finally discovered in 2001. Racing Club ended a 34-year trophy drought that season.
AN ANFIELD CURSE?
There is no specific legend of a Liverpool curse. A cat ran across the Anfield pitch during a match against Spurs in 2012, but it was of the calico variety. An actual black cat made an appearance before last season’s home match against United, but the source of Liverpool’s bad mojo goes back a lot further than that.
Former UKIP candidate Paul Rimmer claimed that the club’s 2012 sponsorship of the Gay Pride Parade brought forth a curse straight from God himself.
Could this claim be through?
Will Liverpool break this curse on Sunday to clinch th premier league cup for the first time since 1989-1990?
