Speaking on the Footballer’s Football Podcast, Callum Wilson has been discussing some footballing superstitions and the dreaded Chelsea number nine shirt.
Chelsea’s number nine shirt is seen as one of the most cursed shirts in the Premier League with the likes of Andriy Shevchenko, Romelu Lukaku, Gonzalo Higuain and Fernando Torres all flopping in that particular shirt.
Wilson says that if he went to Chelsea he’d love to be the club’s number nine, stating that this so-called curse would motivate him to get better and prove that there’s no such thing as bad luck in this case.
What’s been said?
Wilson spoke about if he was the Chelsea number nine.
“Yeah, that motivates me. If I was to go to Chelsea I would take the number nine shirt just to show that it’s not giving bad luck out and stuff like that. So yeah, that motivates me to be honest. I would never shy away from any number. I have number nine so it’s hard to say, but I had 13, but if it was only like 27, 28 or 29 available I might have to take someone’s shirt – I’d never do that,” Wilson said.
“Ultimately players perform differently with different things like that. I’d thrive in it but someone else it might swallow them up a bit. It’s for the weak-minded stuff like that you say superstitions, but I think superstitions are a bit of a mental weakness to be honest.”
Wouldn’t be bothered
Wilson says he wouldn’t be affected by the Chelsea number nine shirt, and we absolutely believe him.
The Newcastle striker clearly isn’t superstitious. He’s happily worn the supposedly unlucky number 13 throughout his career, while he currently occupies the Newcastle number nine – one of the most famous shirts in England.
Wilson would probably step up if he was given the chance to wear Chelsea’s number nine, and while Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is the current occupier of that shirt, there’s reason to believe that Wilson could do even better if he was in the 33-year-old’s role.
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