I believe the infamous Gypsy's Curse was effected by the creation of a 70 minute timewarp in the home dressing room, thus allowing the players to believe that the period between them coming out of the tunnel and 4.10pm is just a very long warm-up. At 4.10pm they imagine it's now 3.00pm and kick off has just occurred. I've come to the conclusion that the fact they leave the pitch 70 minutes before this should cause them to is because they have collectively given up by what they believe to be 3.35pm.