ALAN AYRE takes an in-depth look at how star signs can influence football...

EVER since a bunch of coal miners from West Auckland, County Durham, won the ‘World Cup’ in 1909 and then won it again two years later, beating Juventus 6-1 in the final, there have been many inexplicable Cup upsets in football.
For example: a group of ‘has beens’ and ‘journeymen’ from Nottingham went from Second Division obscurity to European Cup winners inside five years. In 2014 Costa Rica, a nation with a population of less than five million and no ‘star’ pla...