You know people like this, they're the ones with their lucky socks, or their rabbits foot, or their superstitions about throwing salt over their shoulders when it spills, or not stepping on cracks ...

Stafford senior Ashley Roberson almost always plays field hockey with the same good luck charm--a pair of grungy, formerly white tube socks that bring the Indians a mysterious formula for winning.

So the football highlights are on television and you're sitting down to watch them in your lucky socks. Yes, that's after the whistle for the end of the game has actually blown, as if your socks ...

But what about the superstitions of fans, who on Sunday will no doubt be pulling on unwashed underwear or lucky socks before sitting in their same favourite seat, or grabbing the exact same snacks ...