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As we haven't won anything since 1925, have been complete and utter bobbar for decades, and previously good players seem to lose all muscular coordination as soon as they pull on the red and white, perhaps witchcraft is to blame.
Birmingham's gypsy curse supposedly lasted 100 years. Here's how Barry Fry tried to break it (from http://www.weirdisland.co.uk/behaviour/superstitions/birmingham-cityst-andrews.html):
Ex Brum manager Barry Fry told the story most colourfully in an interview with Four Four Two magazine in 2009:
Birmingham's gypsy curse supposedly lasted 100 years. Here's how Barry Fry tried to break it (from http://www.weirdisland.co.uk/behaviour/superstitions/birmingham-cityst-andrews.html):
Ex Brum manager Barry Fry told the story most colourfully in an interview with Four Four Two magazine in 2009:
Well, we went three months without winning a game, and I was in the office shaking my head at our secretary, Alan Jones, saying I’d got it all wrong. He said “It’s not your fault, Baz, it’s the gypsy’s curse”. Gypsy curse? F--- off, what rubbish. But he said we’d always had it and that Ron Saunders put crosses on the dressing room floor, on the walls, on the players’ boots to scare it off, but that didn’t work cos he got the sack. So I said to Alan, “Do you know anyone in the gypsy world?” Turned out he knew the top geezer, so he got him down and he said the only way to lift the curse was to piss in all four corners of the pitch. I thought it was a wind up, but what the ’ell, we were desperate, so I pissed in all four corners, holding it in while I waddled round the pitch. Did it work? Well, we started to win and I thought it had, then they f---ing sacked me, so probably not.
