The Hoodoo on the Rangers

"English League champions Longshaw Rangers were in real trouble! A Spanish gipsy had put a strange curse on the team". So began the introduction to every installment of The Hoodoo on the Rangers, a rather odd football strip that ran in DC Thomson's Wizard comic in early 1973. The embattled team suffered mysterious injuries, fires, and a collapsing stand before eventually figuring out that they were actually being sabotaged by a less supernatural agency; a builders' labourer whose brother had been injured in a pre-season friendly with the team. The brothers' grandmother was the curse hurling gipsy, though curiously, the team still had to beat the curse before their luck finally changed, proving that there are more things in Heaven and 1970s boys comics than are dreamt of in most of our philosophies...and that there's always something a bit dodgy about foreigners (a common theme in D.C Thomson titles at the time).