Top 10 infamous curses in football

#2 Dead cats

Cats were buried at El Cilindro

As Argentine club Racing celebrated the 1967 Intercontinental Cup win, the fans of their greatest rivals, Independiente, broke into Racing’s El Cilindro stadium and buried the corpses of seven black cats.

And that’s when the curse – and Racing’s drought – began. When the barren run got too long, the club staged an exorcism and dug up the ground to remove the corpses. They, however, only found six cats and the curse was still on.

In 2001, they finally found the remains of the seventh cat during the renovation of the ground. And right at the end of that season, Racing won the league for the first time in 34 years.