Matchday Rituals/Habits

[Bad English]

Only for the ESP explorers amoung us.
We can all have a 6th sense member on the posting team you know.

[eamonn]

It was Ping but could easily have been HMHB:

No More Plastic Pitches

I had a dream, no more plastic pitches
I had a dream, I had a dream

QPR, got a lot to answer for!
Preston North End, got a lot to answer for!
Luton Town, got a lot to answer for!

It's living in peace and harmony
It's a holiday for a referee
Society without a class
Where all of football’s played on grass,
Cos I’ve got a dream

I've got a dream, have you got a dream?

[The Edge]

Get up, go to the pub, watch the game, go to the pub, go home.

Dave stole my answer.

And mine. But he got the right answer first so a Chelsea/Villa half and half scarf is currently winging its way to Daves yard.

[chrisw1]

I used to think it was essential for me and whoever I was sitting with to have a king sized Mars Bar (or Marathon) every game.  It had no obvious impact on results but I did quite like Mars Bars, so didn't see any point in taking the risk of not having one. 

[Brazilian Villain]

Number imagery
I have concentrated on this Saturdays match, and then I wished to write down the numbers that came to memory by free association.
I kept getting a very distinct number three.
And I saw the number 22.
I'm curious to find out what that is in relation to Chelsea Villa.

I'm guessing it's the number of players on the pitch at the start of the game.

[pauliewalnuts]

Behind Footy's posts I imagine some collective effort with a vibe similar to the bloke who does Beijing Casual, posting this endless, increasingly surreal stream of dog's cock and pissing themselves whilst doing so.

[Bad English]

Indeed. But whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

[pauliewalnuts]

It might be the same people.

One day they'll get the account mixed up and post here about McGinn being shunned by Emery because he's been locked in the iphone factory, or Matty Cash is a bad person because he's always kicking off down the Slurpy Noodle.

[dave shelley]

Another of mine began after my daughter came home after doing a year teaching in Brum as a NQT.  She was working in a school in Aston/Handsworth and among her stuff that she came home with was a gift from an Indian lady whose child had been in her class.  The gift was a small wooden elephant about four or five inches high.

It was given to her in thanks by the mother because her daughter loved my lass and was doing very well at school.  I loved this elephant from the moment I saw it and I read somewhere that if you point it towards your front door it will bring you luck.

I commandeered that elephant and sits on our hearth and every match day I ensure that he is facing the front door.  This also applies to a tiny ceramic jumbo that sits on a shelf in a unit but I'm buggered if I know where he came from.

[dave.woodhall]

Behind Footy's posts I imagine some collective effort with a vibe similar to the bloke who does Beijing Casual, posting this endless, increasingly surreal stream of dog's cock and pissing themselves whilst doing so.

Beijing Casual was funny.

[pauliewalnuts]

Another of mine began after my daughter came home after doing a year teaching in Brum as a NQT.  She was working in a school in Aston/Handsworth and among her stuff that she came home with was a gift from an Indian lady whose child had been in her class.  The gift was a small wooden elephant about four or five inches high.

It was given to her in thanks by the mother because her daughter loved my lass and was doing very well at school.  I loved this elephant from the moment I saw it and I read somewhere that if you point it towards your front door it will bring you luck.

I commandeered that elephant and sits on our hearth and every match day I ensure that he is facing the front door.  This also applies to a tiny ceramic jumbo that sits on a shelf in a unit but I'm buggered if I know where he came from.

That's a lovely story, Dave.

Mine is I always have a massive shit before leaving the house.

[Footy-Vill]

Behind Footy's posts I imagine some collective effort with a vibe similar to the bloke who does Beijing Casual, posting this endless, increasingly surreal stream of dog's cock and pissing themselves whilst doing so.

You have a very vivid imagination!
Can we just stick to rituals and superstitions and any gut feelings /intuition people have experienced!

[curiousorange]

I genuinely had a pair of lucky pants which co-incided with the great run under Gregory in 97-98. They were falling apart so my mum chucked them over the summer. If you recall we actually finished top of the league at Christmas in 1998, so it's possible I was just wearing a pair of worn-out pants every Saturday for about three months.

[Footy-Vill]

I genuinely had a pair of lucky pants which co-incided with the great run under Gregory in 97-98. They were falling apart so my mum chucked them over the summer. If you recall we actually finished top of the league at Christmas in 1998, so it's possible I was just wearing a pair of worn-out pants every Saturday for about three months.

Any lucky charms that help are a positive! Great Story!

[Ian.]

I’m still convinced me binning my shitty Villa mug last October has created our upturn in form and the football Gods sending us Emery.