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Without question, this Saturday’s Champions League final in Madrid is an extremely nervy occasion for both Liverpool and Tottenham supporters.
Whoever is to be on the losing side won’t hear the end of it for a good length of time, given the fact that the pair are Premier League rivals and face each other at least twice a season.
Mocking chants will be made. Cruel banners will be created to poke fun at the losers; it really is a must-win game for the sake of the supporters’ sanity if nothing else.
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However, there is another reason why Liverpool fans are feeling nervous ahead of the final, and it’s a strange one.
Traditionally, each team’s shirts for a cup final will have commemorative writing stitched upon the middle of the chest, highlighting the venue, date, participating teams and the competition in a format similar to the one below.
Simple enough, right?
Well, it seems not.
A number of Liverpool fans have reacted to the above video fearfully, and have made an effort to signpost the fact that their side always lose finals when the commemorative writing is not in the form of a circle, as seen in the below image.
The Reds lost the 2016 Europa League final, last year’s Champions League final and the 2007 Champions League final with the commemorative writing not in a circular design.
Interestingly, they did win the 2005 Champions League final and the 2012 League Cup final with the writing written in circular fashion – they are yet to win a final this century where the writing has been in straight lines.
In that respect, there is some logical explanation behind their worries regarding the way in which this Saturday’s shirts have been constructed.
Having said that, it is highly unlikely that Jurgen Klopp will send his side out onto the Wanda Metropolitano pitch with anything in their heads other than to get the game won.
How the writing on their chests is stitched shouldn’t even enter their minds, and it is merely a matter of superstition for anxious supporters to ponder over.