By CandH’s top blogger Allen Cummings
A non football fan would find it difficult to understand those quirky pre-match rituals – the things some of us just ‘have’ to do when we head off to a game.
None of us will be doing so tomorrow but some of us might just still have to do, or go through, the things we’ve always done because…..well because we’ve always done them! Simple as that!
Superstitions and rituals are strange things – especially football superstitions and rituals. They don’t always work – but some of us just have to keep repeating them because not to, is just too big a call to make!
So this Saturday I’ll be putting on my West Ham retro shirt as usual – the one from the 1964 F.A. Cup Final – with number ‘6’ on the back of course.
And while I obviously won’t be breaking my journey to Stratford by stopping off at Loughton for my traditional pre-match meal of ‘pie mash’, I’ll still be able to tuck into proper east end grub because Morrison’s sell a great Cook’s Pie & Mash ready meal to have at home.
I’ll be doing my best to make it ‘feel’ like a proper Saturday match day – but of course it will be worlds away!
So who else will be engaging in their own little superstitions and rituals like me? I can’t be the only one – can I?