Matchday superstitions

[PeterWithesShin]

Do any of you have a matchday superstition?

Mine is I have to wear a replica shirt to a game i'm at, otherwise i'm convinced we'll lose. I wear the same shirt until I see us lose in it and then it's never worn again that season and the ritual starts with another shirt. Some seasons i've come close to running out of shirts!

I've had this superstition for about 25 years now so can't see it changing, so in a few decades when you see some 70 year old bloke wearing a replica shirt, it will probably be me!

So far this season the BFR era Brazil shirt is yet to see us lose so is the current "lucky" shirt.

So do you have a superstition, is yours any more ludicrous than mine?

[Chipsticks]

Exactly the same theory about the shirt, and also I have my Lucky Scarf.

No listening to a Villa match live on the radio as well, it's bad luck.

[Lambert and Payne]

I have to have the calender on the right date. That's non football too, if its not on the right date I have a bad day. It sounds stupid but it works

[MarkM]

I have to wear the same socks on match day that I wore on the evening before the game

[timeoutbigbar]

I have to wear the same socks on match day that I wore on the evening before the game

I hope there's a midday change of socks the day before to accommodate this.  For everyones sake.

[Chipsticks]

I have to wear the same socks on match day that I wore on the evening before the game

Must smell a bit.

[CJ]

I used to wear the same lucky pants season after season but I stopped when they got a bit crusty and finally disintegrated. Don't have any superstitions now - the football is shit so I don't need to replicate it in my underwear

[olaftab]

I don't have any superstition. I sometimes  think about when getting dressed on a match day that I should wear the same stuff as the previous match if  we had won than but  normally fail to find due to my wife's immaculate tidying up of washing!
I used to  think about all the bad result combinations under  some sort of facile belief that if I thought about them and worried they were not going to  come to be. Billy McNeil  era destroyed that belief.

[usav]

I gave up on superstitions a long time ago.

For the two Wembley trips in the mid-90's, we made sure we walked around the entire stadium before the game (as much as possible, I think it was fenced off half way round).   This was because we did exactly that before the Tranmere game to 'soak in the atmosphere' - and we all know the result of that.

[darren woolley]

I wear the same lucky pants when I go and watch the Villa I have not had them long and when I've had them on we have never lost.

[Exeter 77]

I always made sure I went through the same turnstile up until the Wigan game a few weeks ago when it was closed for some reason.

[Legion]

I always go through turnstile 43.

[Lizz]

I wear earrings that can loosely be classed as shades of claret or blue, ditto my eyeshadow.

[Lobsterboy]

No superstitions for me but I did have a mate who insisted on having a Snickers/Marathon on the way to the game for good luck...

I never did get round to asking him why or more importantly what he would have done if the newsagents didn't have any Snickers left!

[The Left Side]

None for me!