As regular readers will kno, this TLF is a superstitious TLF. Lucky socks, lucky pants, lucky comestibles; blue cheeseburgers (Mighty Foxes), bacon fries (Mighty Saints). It’s not just about good luck is it though? There can be signs, portents of bad footballing luck.
Top of TLF’s bad luck list is coming across a deceased fox, especially in the run up to a game. Generally roadkill- they indicate that a huge Lesta defeat and humiliation is imminent.
So last weekend on my Satday run coming across the, shall we charitably say, aromatic remains of a fox ahead of our FA Cup quarter final was not good news. Not for the real fox obviously but more importantly not for Lesta’s chances of reaching an FA Cup semi final for the first time since 1982. Desperate for some optimism TLF considered whether it’s possible to cancel out bad football luck. Remarkably on the rest of that run, TLF saw not one but three pairs of magpies (two for joy cubed!).
3 pairs magpies 1 fox corpse
Look familiar?
Lesta’s City 3 Man Utd 1
Just sayin’
Prophecy Fox
Yes of course it’s just a path. This is a family blog. We don’t do fox corpses