Ex-Liverpool star was instructed to drink goat’s blood earlier than match for ‘good luck’
Footballer Dean Saunders has revealed he was as soon as instructed to drink goat’s blood earlier than a match in Turkey – for “good luck”.
Players within the stunning sport could be a superstitious bunch. Some have a set routine which can see them put their proper sock, proper shin-pad and proper boot on first, earlier than repeating the order on their left.
Those who take set-pieces could bounce the ball within the spot for a selected variety of occasions, because it’s one thing they as soon as did earlier than scoring. However, with regards to superstitions, few, if any, come near what former Liverpool ahead Dean Saunders as soon as needed to do when he performed for Galatasaray.
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The “shocked” striker watched the animal’s throat get reduce earlier than a cup of its blood was handed round his team-mates. Saunders, 59, who had performed for the Turkish giants within the 1995/96 season, mentioned: “Before a game, they brought this goat and slit it’s throat in front of us. It was a bit of a shock.”
The former Wales star added: “We pretended to drink, but the cup was warm. It’s a religious thing.” The scary factor is, on that day, that was not the primary goat he noticed have it is throat slit.
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During a earlier look on BT Sport, he reminisced on that day when he mentioned: “We get on this bus and it goes via the worst city I’ve ever seen in my life. It was all mud, nobody has received footwear on, there’s purple and yellow ticker tape like a carnival in all places.
“The bus stops in the midst of the twin carriage approach and there’s a man strolling a goat. It’s one among them ginger, long-haired goats, not like a standard white goat. We thought, have a look at him, strolling that goat, like a canine.
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“He walks into the center of the highway, places the goat between his legs, pulls a knife out, pulls the goat’s head again and slits his throat. We have been simply flabbergasted, there was blood in all places.”
Saunders was not too grossed out by the expertise as he remained on the membership for a whole season, earlier than shifting to Nottingham Forest the yr after.