Any City match-day superstitions?

[jonmcfc]

So now we know the reason for this season to date. Its 'callie' not tactics, not the team and not the signings. Ban for life is in order.

 

[Deleted member 52846]

I used to have a no shave, same boxers, no red sauce superstition policy for match days.

The game when the Sheikh came when we beat Liverpool 3-0 at home, I wore different boxers to the usual and had a burger with red sauce on. I also wore completely different clothes for the semi-final to the final in the FAC in 2011 and we won both 1-0.

I realised superstitions were a load of old shite.

I rarely, if ever, shave anymore anyway; I wear anything I pick out on match days; but I still don't have red sauce on principal though. I don't do red and neither should we with our away kits!

 

[Big Swifty]

I think my fingernail thing started in 1983. I used to pull in at a little shop on Wilbraham Road on my way to Maine Rd and buy a packet of five small cigars, and puff my way through them before and during the game. One terrible day I forgot, or was too stressed because it was the crucial end of the season match v Luton, and of course the inevitable happened, as we all know.
I have blamed myself ever since for our relegation that day, knowing I should have bought the cigars. That was the start of our decline (barring a brief period in the early 90s), and I have always understood the importance of ritual in supporting a football team.
I'm certainly not cutting my nails on the morning of the semi, no matter how long they are. I am also losing my marbles, I think.

 

[southstandblue27]

I stand up until the first whistle and then immediately shout 'come on city' and clap three times.

 

[Mental_blue]

I stand up until the first whistle and then immediately shout 'come on city' and clap three times.

I always leave 10 minutes from the end. Haven't seen us lose in 3 seasons

 

[mcfcallo]

Away shirt to home game and home shirt to away game.....never fails

 

[billfromthehill]

I stand up until the first whistle and then immediately shout 'come on city' and clap three times.

I always leave 10 minutes from the end. Haven't seen us lose in 3 seasons

Mmmmmmmmhhhhhhhhh.

 

[blue12]

For years I bought the city home and away shirt and then stopped at the start of the 2010-11 season which we ended up winning the cup ,I then also didn't buy last seasons shirts and well we know what happened.
Anyway I bought all three this season and up to now it's not been the best ,so absolutely 100 percent I will never purchase another replica shirt again I promise !

 

[bennyboy]

Always have to overtake somebody on that moving flat escalator thing at Piccadilly Station.

 

[citybhoyboris]

On a day City are playing I never ever cut my fingernails (before the game, that is). I dare not, because if I do, we lose. I literally cannot remember the last time I did. It is illogical - how can cutting my fingernails determine whether we play well, Dzeko miises a chance or Tevez misses a penalty? But I simply DARE not cut them. I am terrified to.
Am I demented, or has anyone else a City-based superstition?

Sweet fuck...