Perhaps Manchester United didn’t play fair.
Red is the colour if winning is your game
THE Washington Redskins, Manchester United and the Welsh rugby team have all been playing with an unfair advantage. Just seeing their red kit is seemingly enough to cow their opponents into submission even before a ball is kicked.
Russell Hill and Robert Barton of Durham University in the UK tracked success in four Olympic sports: boxing, taekwondo, Greco-Roman wrestling and freestyle wrestling.
Of 441 bouts, reds won 242 and in all four sports reds triumphed in more contests. And the red advantage was higher in close encounters: 62 per cent of red-garbed competitors won these. The same is true in soccer. Five teams in the Euro 2004 competition who had predominantly red in one of their two kits all did significantly better while wearing red, scoring around one extra goal per game.
Human competitors might experience a testosterone surge while wearing the colour, he (Barton) says, or feel submissive when facing a scarlet opponent.
Source: New Scientist (From issue 2500 of New Scientist magazine, 18 May 2005, page 16)
Well, I guess it’s time all football jerseys use the color red. I won’t be surprised that after a more thorough research, all sportmen would select red as their official color.
Boos… Man u mlost to arsenal on 5-4 penalty…
by K.S. (May 22, 2005 at 9 PM)I heard Manchester United’s standards go down very badly. I don’t see them as a winner now. When I look at Manchester United, I think of Beckham only. I don’t know who are the others there. Now Beckham has left, Manchester United, to me, seemed empty, hahaa
by Mr. Dew (May 23, 2005 at 1 AM)