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#8 Should have paid the money!
So in a bid to win a World Cup qualifier game against Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in Mozambique, the Australian football team hired a witch doctor, who buried bones near the goal-posts and cursed the opposition.
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The Socceroos ultimately won against Rhodesia 3-1 but were in deep trouble when they couldn’t pay the £1000 demanded by the witch doctor.
He then cursed the team and the lost their next game against Israel and failed to qualify for the 1970 World Cup.
It took until 2006 for Australia to qualify for a World Cup and it happened after John Safran hired another witch doctor in Mozambique to reverse the curse.
Australia have since qualified for all the subsequent World Cups.
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Edited by Alan John
