Neil Warnock wore same underwear for half a season due to strange superstition
Neil Warnock once wore the same underwear for half a season due to his bizarre superstitions.
The ex-player and manager of numerous clubs also used to slow down at traffic lights so they turned red on his way to games. Warnock, whose nickname is an anagram of his actual name – Colin Wr, said: “I remember once at Rotherham I never washed my jock strap if we won.
"We went 19 games undefeated. I used to whistle to my jock strap, ‘Come on boy’. Sheffield was bad. If I’d drive to the ground, if a crossing was red and we won, next game, I’d have to wait and slow down until the crossing changed to red.
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"Things like that. Unbelievable. Haircut. If I’d had a bad time, lost three or four on the trot, I’d go and have a haircut. And same shirt, tie and things, all sorts of things. Even your boots.
"And then I had to be last out the dressing room. And I had to have a certain guy in front of me as I trotted out. There was that many little things. I suppose it just makes you feel good."
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At QPR, he started one season in August in shorts in the dugout – but as the team got off to a roaring start, he decided to keep wearing shorts while they were doing well – and their success lasted until December.
Warnock, who banned his family from attending games when he thought it influenced results, added: “I had my shorts on in December. Freezing.
"And then Watford beat us and I thought, ‘Thank God for that’. Nearly died of hypothermia. We went all those games undefeated until December."
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