Ultimately they moved to their current ground, named St Andrew's after another nearby church in 1905 and have been doomed ever since. Relegation has tended to be the watchword and the club has been plagued by all sorts of problems, financial and otherwise.
The reason given locally was that some travellers were moved off the ground (picture at the top) to build the first stadium and one of them put a 'gypsy' curse on the land. Of course this is exactly the sort of thing I love.
All sorts of spooky stuff has been tried to get rid of the curse, even hanging crucifixes in the stadium and having the manager pee in the corner of the pitch. An upholsterer who did some work had a priest bless the cloth with holy water in the hope of getting rid of it.
Each time there is a slight upturn in the club's fortunes before everything starts going wrong, and to me this is a sign that it is actually cursed because if you're going to do it they'd better stay cursed but you might as well mess with their head while you're about it. The best part of this trolling is that you'll read that the curse would last a century - this in itself tickles me no end. As if! That curse is going nowhere.
Nonetheless we'll still make fun of Wolves fans. 😂
*Technically there are two other teams, Romulus and Sutton Coldfield town in Birmingham but they're semi-pro.
I'm not much a sports person, but I do prefer European Football over American Football. As a side note, If you like to read the book, "The Boys in the Boat" by Daniel James Brown is excellent! Very well-written and I confess that it is extra special for me as the author documents the life of a man who roamed all the places I roam. It makes the world feel very small indeed to think some boy from here that went to the same University I and played in the same hidden creeks and streams could find himslef on a Crew team in Europe defeating the crew of Nazi Germany in their own waters!
ReplyDeleteDamnit I was being so good and didn't even say 'I mean actual football not American football ' and you still detected the thought! In reality I prefer cricket and at school liked playing rugby - but have always hated playing football, so probably would get on better with American or Australian rules football.
DeleteI'll look out the book, it looks fascinating. I don't tend to have the concentration for whole novels nowadays but it does look fascinating.