David Forbes

@israel_ajoje Terry wearing a full kit when he wasn’t playing?!? Surely not 🤣 Alan Shearer was extremely superstitious as well. Always left boot on before right and sat in the same spot in the dressing room.

This will absolutely shock you. Argentina's goalkeeper Sergio Goycochea had a ritual before every penalty shootout. He would urinate on the grass, right in front of everyone, not in the tunnel or in a bottle. His reasoning was simple: the rules say you cannot leave the field until the match is over, so he did what he had to do. He saved penalty after penalty across back to back World Cups and became one of the most clutch goalkeepers of his generation. Nobody questioned it. And that tells you everything about how far footballers will go when they believe something is working. Here are seven of the rarest, strangest, and most fascinating facts about kits, jerseys, and the superstitions that surround them. 1. Pelé's lucky shirt was a lie During a dip in form, Pelé convinced himself the problem was a "lucky" jersey he had given away to a fan, and he asked a friend to track it down. The friend could not find the original, so he quietly handed Pelé a completely different shirt from a previous game and said absolutely nothing. Pelé believed it was the one he had been looking for; his form immediately returned, and he never found out the truth. The shirt was wrong but the belief was aneough. 2. John Terry had fifty pre-match rituals and never missed a single one I said fifty, not five. Terry admitted to listening to the same Usher CD on the drive to every game, parking in the exact same spot at the stadium, sitting in the same seat on the team bus, and taping his socks exactly three times before kick off. He also wore the same pair of shin pads for ten consecutive seasons and reportedly still put on his full kit at home on days he was suspended and could not play, simply because the routine was the routine and breaking it was never an option he was willing to consider. Shocking. Right? 3. Jack Grealish wore the same boots from March all the way to Wembley Grealish returned from a three month injury layoff in March 2019 and immediately started scoring and assisting in a brand new pair of boots, declared them lucky, and refused to change them for a single game after that. He wore the exact same pair through the entire Championship run-in and all the way to the playoff final at Wembley, where Aston Villa beat Derby County 2-1 to win promotion back to the Premier League. He retired the boots after the final whistle and not a moment before. 4. Cameroon wore sleeveless jerseys to a tournament, won the tournament but got punished for it In 2002, Cameroon showed up to the Africa Cup of Nations in sleeveless jerseys as a deliberate statement against convention, and rather than going out early, they went ahead and won the entire tournament in the illegal kit. FIFA then banned the shirts ahead of the World Cup later that same year, ruling they violated regulations on kit design. So Cameroon lifted the trophy in jerseys that were technically not allowed, and were punished for it only after the fact. You genuinely could not write it. 5. France won the 1998 World Cup with Gloria Gaynor and a kissed bald head On the road to winning their first World Cup, the entire French squad sat in exactly the same seats on the team bus before every single game without exception, and in the dressing room they played Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive" as a collective ritual before walking out. Before each match, striker Laurent Blanc would walk across to goalkeeper Fabien Barthez and kiss his shaved head, every single time, without fail. They won every game they played in that tournament and nobody suggested changing a single part of the routine because when something is not broken at a World Cup, you do not fix it. 6. A France manager was picking his national team squads using astrology Raymond Domenech, who managed the French national team from 2004 to 2010, publicly admitted that astrology was one of his parameters in decision making and openly stated his suspicion of Leo players in defensive positions. He was also widely reported to have a problem with Scorpios in his squad, and Robert Pires, who was one of the finest French players of that generation, effectively saw his international career end under Domenech's management. Domenech denied that astrology was the direct reason for any specific selection, but he never denied using it as a tool, which is arguably worse. He never won a trophy as a manager, and the stars, apparently, did not align for him. Which of these facts did you enjoy? Let me know in the comments section. My name is Ajoje and I am a FIFA Licensed Agent and International Sports Lawyer. I talk about the Law and Business of Football, a lot. Repost and Follow me if you want to read more posts like this.

@ScotlandSky Best thing about this is that the Dundee fans who left early missed out on the fantastic comeback.

🤯 𝗗𝗲𝗿𝗯𝘆 𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗱𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗮! The full-time scenes from Dens Park as Dundee scored two stoppage-time goals to salvage a draw against Dundee Utd! ⤵️

McInnes after 30 games 2015 - 62 points 2016 - 65 points 2017 - 62 points Didn’t win the league in any of them 2026 - 63 points

Omari Hutchinson in the afterlife telling Bert Trautmann who served in ww2, then played an FA cup final with a broken neck how bad it was when he played a game with moisturiser running down his face:

‘Lutz leading the process’ ‘Worldwide contact book’ ‘Who’s performing well’ 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

Watch this again. This was EIGHT days ago! It’s obvious Robinson wasn’t in the picture. They were looking at guys (Schwartz named) who wanted to start in the summer. EIGHT days later, were appointing the st mirren manager to start immediately! Farcical youtu.be/rKrpdhZ9azc?si…

@scotlandscoeff1 The American team should be kicked out the competition - or the Jamaican team should be able to pick 10 players from their opponents to become ineligible. This did happen in Scotland this year though when Aberdeen hosted FCSB and it was a disgrace then also.

🏆 The CONCACAF Champions Cup is their equivalent of UEFA's Champions League ⛔️ Ten players from a Jamaican side have been denied a visa to enter USA for match Vs LA Galaxy 🇭🇹 This includes 7 players from Haiti, but USA have said exemptions will be in place for the World Cup...

Surely @1_LPfannenstiel position is now untenable? What’s the point in anything he says or does? 2 months just to appoint Burrows’ best mate??! 🤣🤣🤣 A guy who doesn’t meet ANY of the criteria set out by our new sporting director What a fucking joke.

@AberdeenFC No one else wants the job due to our egotistical chairman and bonkers sporting director. Robinson has taken St Mirren as far as he can and will never get another opportunity as big as Aberdeen. I don’t blame him being interested.

Aberdeen FC has this morning been officially given permission to enter formal talks with St Mirren manager Stephen Robinson regarding the vacant managerial position. The Club will provide an update in due course.

Provided one of the best TV moments of all time.

Hamas handed Israel 66 boxes each one containing the skull of a hostage They then returned the bodies of female hostages cut open with their organs removed Wait that was actually the IDF not Hamas Let me know if you still feel as sick and enraged as you did 10 seconds ago

@Dazzy_deff @air_ingy I had a memory of him playing an end of season game at Pittodrie but couldn’t find evidence of it online

@davidforbes10 @air_ingy Nicky clark did play for us. Came on at ibrox.

Working on a 'thing' regarding Aberdeen FC Youth Academy Graduates and would be interested to know your views on this subject: Aberdeen has the aim of becoming the "Best Developer of Young Talent in Scotland" - in your opinion, which objective metric(s) would you prioritise?

@air_ingy Interesting to see this list written out and overall it’s not that impressive. There are quite a few others (Nicky Clark, Stephen O’Donnell etc) that never played a game for us but have gone on to have good careers in the top Scottish league.

For example: - SFA Audit Rating (i.e., 'Elite' Level Status)? - Pathway to First Team for Graduates? - Academy Graduate Minutes - Transfer Revenue Per Graduate? - Other?

@AFCHereWeGo What a great celebration for the winner that day

Twenty years ago today, a second Dons goal for the current Dundee manager, and Chris Clark’s deflected winner at Tynecastle.

Daily Mail - Starmer is a "decent man" Guardian - "decent PM" LBC - "fundamentally a decent man" The Times - "perfectly decent man" Keir Starmer is a disgrace. He is complicit in genocide. Nobody who sees Palestinians as human beings could ever conclude he is "decent".

What Israel's idea of "ceasefire" looks like.

This what the Israeli military did to the only cancer hospital in Gaza.

Aberdeen should have kept this guy 🇵🇸

The Labour Party are asking you to ignore your own eyes and ears.

Sivert Nilsen was run into the ground last year. Played for basically 18 months straight. I, for one, am looking forward to the redemption arc as he plays the deep lying playmaker role Horneland played him at Brann before coming here 🇳🇴