No. It was the cricket ground ghosts.
When I was a 7 year old boy, the remains of the cricket pavilion were still standing at the edge of the brutalist new South stand carpark.
Men with more imagination than we got would have preserved the pavilion, listed it and the John Street stand, and worried about building cladded student flats, and office blocks later.
They demolished the remnants of the pavilion, (you could buy a brick in the club shop)..as they said the ghosts of the cricket club after the building of the new south stand were cursing the club, now in division 4.
We've never been back.
The 2cb is just an incidental coincidence, involving someone who isn't me.