Derby County...

[upthemaggies]

Excuse me, UTM, I thought we had exclusive rights on the curse story. Are you saying it might be slightly untrue?

Possibly.
Derby did evict a group of gypsies before building the Baseball Ground and word went round that they'd put a curse on the club to never win the FA Cup.
In 1946, after they won a semi-final, it is said that a group of fans tracked down survivors of the eviction and begged them to lift the curse and Derby won 4-1, but I remember seeing it mentioned a few times on local news or "On the ball" whenever Derby were struggling. Birmingham have a curse on St Andrews as well. So it might be with Notts that it was just somebody making an assumption that we must be suffering a similar curse, other people repeated it and then it's been taken to be true. I can't say I was ever aware of it pre-internet and have only seen it mentioned once or twice.

[the_anticlough]

These curses are pretty potent, next-generation high-tech stuff, determining outcomes in the FA Cup and football fortunes in general - wow.
Kudos to the travelling community, if true, for pioneering this kind of thought-control technology..
How would it work exactly? A group of people send brain waves, through the air (or by using dolls and pins) and these waves reach a transmitter/converter that then beams them down to everybody at say Derby County Football Club or whoever comes out of the bag in the FA Cup draw and either boosts and reduces performance...

Anyway, will read up on stuff like this below and I'd recommend Football Radar to get on to this stuff immediately, it might be able to give IB the edge he needs

https://www.newscientist.com/article...udible-speech/