Ferguson faces bout of yellow fever

SUPERSTITION in football is an almost endless topic; there’s enough material for a good-sized book.

Never mind thestories about fans with lucky underpants and pre-match playerrituals, the truly superstitious are the managers.

Don Revie believed birds brought bad luck. Carlo Bilardo, Argentina’s World Cup winning manager in 1986, had a thing about chicken — he banned his players from eating it. Former France manager Raymond Domenech notoriously left Robert Pires out of his squad because he had the wrong star sign (Scorpio) while Spain manager Luis Aragones once made his captain Raul remove a jersey he wore to training because he has an aversion to the colour yellow.