Author Topic: What Are Your Totems While You are Watching Your Team's Matches? (Read 9936 times)

Max_powers · « **Reply #40 on:** January 9, 2014, 06:25:06 pm »

The only one I have is I never listen to Talkshite commentary. I have to work often early weekend mornings and my work involves a lot of driving so when the game is on the radio only has Talkshite commentary broadcasted through one of the Canadian radio stations. Whenever I turn on there commentary within 5-10 mins the opposition scores every time. I stopped listening to that now and just wait and watch the match later online. That and they put they can't afford a commentary box for there commentators, all you hear is the crowd noise.

The 5th Benitle · « **Reply #41 on:** January 9, 2014, 06:31:15 pm »

Quote from: Lenin. on January 9, 2014, 04:04:09 pm

How?

Pistolero · « **Reply #42 on:** January 9, 2014, 06:42:23 pm »

there was a cracking phone-in about this on one of Danny Baker's footy shows many, many years ago.....one fella (a Man U fan as it happens) would flush the khazi and if he could get down the stairs to the front door and out of the house before the flush had finished he knew then they were going to win that day

.......another caller - with terrible eyesight - said he used to 'punish' his team if they were playing badly by taking his glasses off so he was unable to see them play....and would only put them back on again if they scored, this , he said, was 'to teach them a lesson'

.....footy fans are indeed fuckin nuts

El Lobo · « **Reply #43 on:** January 9, 2014, 06:48:14 pm »

Don't have a set one but once I get it in my head that I might be wearing lucky pants, I can't change them until after our next game. So these ones ain't getting changed till Monday now.

Gods_Left_Boot · « **Reply #44 on:** January 9, 2014, 06:49:29 pm »

If I'm watching at home wearing the Gerrard jersey that I bought on the day of the Olympiakos match (it literally started working from day 1).

If I'm watching at the pub always order the same beer (I rotate pub when we lose or have a "bad" draw and keep the same pub if we win or have a "good" draw, i.e. on a tough away or similar).

Max_powers · « **Reply #45 on:** January 9, 2014, 06:51:03 pm »

Quote from: Pistolero on January 9, 2014, 06:42:23 pm

there was a cracking phone-in about this on one of Danny Baker's footy shows many, many years ago.....one fella (a Man U fan as it happens) would flush the khazi and if he could get down the stairs to the front door and out of the house before the flush had finished he knew then they were going to win that day .......another caller - with terrible eyesight - said he used to 'punish' his team if they were playing badly by taking his glasses off so he was unable to see them play....and would only put them back on again if they scored, this , he said, was 'to teach them a lesson' .....footy fans are indeed fuckin nuts

He must be getting old now.

Pistolero · « **Reply #46 on:** January 9, 2014, 06:53:11 pm »

Quote from: El Lobo on January 9, 2014, 06:48:14 pm

once I get it in my head that I might be wearing lucky pants, I can't change them until after our next game.

Hope to fuck you don't think about footy in June...

El Lobo · « **Reply #47 on:** January 9, 2014, 06:53:22 pm »

Quote from: Max_powers on January 9, 2014, 06:51:03 pm

He must be getting old now.

He's a Yernited fan and sadly had his leg amputated in the summer.

rob1966 · « **Reply #48 on:** January 9, 2014, 08:16:08 pm »

Dont have anything as what i do has absolutely no influence on the result of the game.

Cu Chulainn · « **Reply #49 on:** January 9, 2014, 08:41:59 pm »

I recently swore never listen to us on the radio. Usually watch all the games but if not I'd rather not have any coverage than listen to the radio, we ALWAYS lose, some examples...

Hull 3 - 1 Livepool - 2013
Bolton 3 - 1 Liverpool - 2012
Liverpool 1 -3 Villa - 2009

turkish kopite · « **Reply #50 on:** January 9, 2014, 08:50:13 pm »

Quote from: Cu Chulainn on January 9, 2014, 08:41:59 pm

I recently swore never listen to us on the radio. Usually watch all the games but if not I'd rather not have any coverage than listen to the radio, we ALWAYS lose, some examples...

Hull 3 - 1 Livepool - 2013
Bolton 3 - 1 Liverpool - 2012
Liverpool 1 -3 Villa - 2009

Bet on stoke city 3-1 and listen the game on the radio. If we win never mind money if we lose 3-1 again you'll get some money

Scarlet` · « **Reply #51 on:** January 10, 2014, 05:05:03 am »

I don't go on the matchday thread. Whenever I go on, we would lose. EVEN IF I ACCIDENTALLY CLICK IT

shinku · « **Reply #52 on:** January 10, 2014, 08:55:48 am »

Will paint my nails red if it's the night before a match I really really want us to win.

In general, I avoid wearing blue nail polish, I think it brings my teams bad luck.

Lenin. · « **Reply #53 on:** January 10, 2014, 10:41:03 am »

Quote from: shinku on January 10, 2014, 08:55:48 am

Will paint my nails red if it's the night before a match I really really want us to win.

In general, I avoid wearing blue nail polish, I think it brings my teams bad luck.

How many teams have you got?

Upinsmoke · « **Reply #54 on:** January 10, 2014, 10:45:06 am »

When i'm at the match none, if i'm watching it from the comfort of me home though it depends, say we concede a goal and i'm sat down i'll stand and vice versa. Sometime's i'll stand the whole match if we're doing well.

turkish kopite · « **Reply #55 on:** January 10, 2014, 11:33:57 am »

Quote from: shinku on January 10, 2014, 08:55:48 am

Will paint my nails red if it's the night before a match I really really want us to win.

In general, I avoid wearing blue nail polish, I think it brings my teams bad luck.

I am confused. Why do you prefer blue? I hope you will not wear them at a liverpool pub

JTK · « **Reply #56 on:** January 10, 2014, 11:45:14 am »

Quote from: turkish kopite on January 10, 2014, 11:33:57 am

I am confused. Why do you prefer blue? I hope you will not wear them at a liverpool pub

avoid - keep away from or stop oneself from doing (something).

E.g. "avoid painting your nails blue"

turkish kopite · « **Reply #57 on:** January 10, 2014, 11:47:37 am »

Quote from: JTK on January 10, 2014, 11:45:14 am

avoid - keep away from or stop oneself from doing (something).

E.g. "avoid painting your nails blue"

Oops. Really sorry my mistake

Ziltoid · « **Reply #58 on:** January 10, 2014, 11:49:30 am »

Quote from: Lenin. on January 9, 2014, 04:04:09 pm

How?

Dear me, that made me laugh far more than it should

JTK · « **Reply #59 on:** January 10, 2014, 11:52:14 am »

Quote from: turkish kopite on January 10, 2014, 11:47:37 am

Oops. Really sorry my mistake

No blue nail varnish around here!

the 92A · « **Reply #60 on:** January 10, 2014, 01:39:56 pm »

Don't bother usually at the match apart from in 2005 one of my mates noticed on photos I'd had the same bright blue t-shirt on for the Champions League games so i wore it for the Olympicos game which we won so it ended up going all the way to Istanbul. And I never work out how many points we'll have if we win a game before the game is played.

CornerFlag · « **Reply #61 on:** January 10, 2014, 01:47:32 pm »

Never used to, now I have the tendency to wear the away top when we're at home and vice versa.

JTK · « **Reply #62 on:** January 10, 2014, 01:50:26 pm »

Quote from: The 92A on January 10, 2014, 01:39:56 pm

And I never work out how many points we'll have if we win a game before the game is played.

3 points for a win mate.

zip · « **Reply #63 on:** January 10, 2014, 02:00:55 pm »

I have a 2008-09 Gerrard 8 home shirt but I've become superstitious about wearing it during matches as the times I've worn it, Gerrard's been red carded, missed a pen or we've generally played shite. Pretty silly if I think about it though.

dylman · « **Reply #64 on:** January 10, 2014, 02:44:32 pm »

I have noticed a pattern over the last couple of years: if I can't get to the match, or to a pub to watch the game, then the quality of our performance is directly related to the quality of the stream that I'm watching.
The better quality the stream, the worse we play. If it's a HD stream we're guaranteed to play shite and lose, but if the stream is that bad that I can't make out the players or the ball (with commentary in Russian) then we'll play well.

This correlation is almost infallible, I'm hesitant to watch streams at all these days, which I believe is why we're doing OK this year.

Lenin. · « **Reply #65 on:** January 10, 2014, 02:48:44 pm »

Why don't all you jinxy twats just stop doing whatever it is that causes us to lose?

turkish kopite · « **Reply #66 on:** January 10, 2014, 03:08:14 pm »

Quote from: dylman on January 10, 2014, 02:44:32 pm

I have noticed a pattern over the last couple of years: if I can't get to the match, or to a pub to watch the game, then the quality of our performance is directly related to the quality of the stream that I'm watching.
The better quality the stream, the worse we play. If it's a HD stream we're guaranteed to play shite and lose, but if the stream is that bad that I can't make out the players or the ball (with commentary in Russian) then we'll play well.

This correlation is almost infallible, I'm hesitant to watch streams at all these days, which I believe is why we're doing OK this year.

I can watch every game 144p quaity

just win all games

turkish kopite · « **Reply #67 on:** January 10, 2014, 03:09:18 pm »

Quote from: Lenin. on January 10, 2014, 02:48:44 pm

Why don't all you jinxy twats just stop doing whatever it is that causes us to lose?

calm down

shinku · « **Reply #68 on:** January 10, 2014, 09:00:50 pm »

Quote from: Lenin. on January 10, 2014, 10:41:03 am

How many teams have you got?

Well I've got my home team, the Portland Timbers, whom I support because it's my home team, and I've got you all.

turkish kopite · « **Reply #69 on:** January 12, 2014, 02:15:20 pm »

today we will test our totems

McrRed · « **Reply #70 on:** January 12, 2014, 02:22:13 pm »

amongst many...but this is the only one that seems to work.

firing squad · « **Reply #71 on:** January 12, 2014, 02:29:32 pm »

I never check the livescore app on my mobile on matchday until after our game is over. I've done it a couple of times and we always lost.

I know it's all bollox but there it is.

firing squad · « **Reply #72 on:** January 12, 2014, 02:32:07 pm »

Quote from: Upinsmoke on January 10, 2014, 10:45:06 am

When i'm at the match none, if i'm watching it from the comfort of me home though it depends, say we concede a goal and i'm sat down i'll stand and vice versa. Sometime's i'll stand the whole match if we're doing well.

safe standing at it's best.

Upinsmoke · « **Reply #73 on:** January 12, 2014, 02:36:42 pm »

Re Istanbul : I was sat with me sister downstairs for the first 45, obviously 3_0 down, I said fuck this im going upstairs to watch it by myself, so I did. Then when the first went in she was like come and watch it with her but I refused and she kept asking me but I felt like we were doing alright with me up here so is stayed there till Shevchenko missed his pen

turkish kopite · « **Reply #74 on:** January 17, 2014, 08:53:00 pm »

last week our totems worked, what about this game?

Ari.Gold · « **Reply #75 on:** January 17, 2014, 11:36:11 pm »

always wearing something with liverbird logo

turkish kopite · « **Reply #76 on:** January 28, 2014, 12:18:21 pm »

here we go. another match day!

Branno · « **Reply #77 on:** January 28, 2014, 12:53:18 pm »

I record the game. Then check the result and if we have won then I watch it....works every time 😜

Wrigley · « **Reply #78 on:** January 28, 2014, 01:00:51 pm »

It always seems to me that the outcome of the game is based solely on my contribution to you'll never walk alone at the start, If I don't put full effort in that seems to translate to the players.

AB LFC · « **Reply #79 on:** January 28, 2014, 01:24:34 pm »

Whenever I give up something important in order to watch the match, eg going gym or boxing classes, we always seem to lose. I'm giving the gym a miss again tonight to watch. If we lose, it's my fault