Bill Rohn
Wyoming-Kentwood News Today Contributor
Friday Night Highlights Host
You’ve got to love soccer…or, as the rest of the world insists on calling it, football. What a game!
With high school football about seven weeks away, the televised World Cup matches have provided terrific entertainment. The tournament runs through the middle of July.
The matches feature nonstop action, spectacular bicycle kicks, colorful uniforms, gravity-defying hairstyles, and dramatic penalty kicks that often raise the blood pressure of people who didn’t even know the rules two weeks earlier.
But CURSES?
Yes, apparently world-class soccer has CURSES, too!
Take the Republic of Ghana’s recent match against England. Ghana entered the contest having never reached the World Cup “knockout round,” where the final 32 teams battle in single-elimination play. A loss to England would likely have ended Ghana’s 2026 World Cup hopes.
So naturally…
One Ghana fan — who evidently earns his living as a SPIRITUALIST — decided that it was time to intervene.
His target was England’s biggest scoring threat, Harry Kane.
According to reports, the Spiritualist’s curse recipe wasn’t complicated. He simply gathered four dogs, a collection of leaves, and a photograph of Harry Kane. He then carefully arranged the items just so, hoping that his supernatural curse would succeed where Ghana’s defenders might not.
Imagine that. Apparently there’s a ‘Curse Starter Kit’ that includes exactly four dogs. Three dogs wouldn’t do it. Five dogs would be overkill.
The Spiritualist also noted an earlier curse allegedly placed on Portugal’s star Cristiano Ronaldo before the 2014 World Cup. Ronaldo then suffered a leg injury before Portugal’s opening match, which believers considered evidence that these things actually work.
So this wasn’t just an evil eye, a jinx, or your garden-variety whammy.
This was the deluxe model.
And as to Harry Kane?
During post-curse play, he missed a very makeable 18-foot shot and finished the match without a goal. Ghana thus earned a tie and advanced to the knockout round for the first time. And believers in curses probably took victory laps.
Fortunately for England, the Spiritualist publicly announced the removal of Kane’s curse immediately following the Ghana/England Match.
Sure enough, Kane scored a goal in England’s next contest, and England also advanced to the Round of 32.
Now, I’m not saying there’s anything to this curse business.
Still, it might be nice to get in touch with that Spiritualist — along with four dogs and a pile of leaves — before the Detroit Lions begin training camp.
