‘The Aaron Ramsey Curse’: SHOCKING revelations about how has it killed 23 famous personalities?
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Former Juventus and Arsenal star Aaron Ramsey has had a memorable career across professional football in Europe. However, the current Rangers player is also associated with a curse, quite prevalent in the football domain.
Ramsey began his career as a professional footballer when he was just 16 years old. He became a hot commodity around soccer and was courted by Premier League giants such as Arsenal, Everton, and Manchester United. After agreeing to join Arsenal in 2008, Ramsey was on the path to professional greatness when a broken leg briefly derailed his career. However, he came back strong on the filed and played some of his best football in the coming years
Ramsey was a key player at Arsenal. He won three FA Cups and two FA Community Shields with the team. Not only that, but he was also named their player of the season twice in 2013-14 and 2017-18.
Ramsey might not have broken any records in terms of his goal-scoring ability, but he provided the team with a little bit of every other aspect, including delivering key passes, taking set pieces, and retrieving the ball from his opponents.
What is the Aaron Ramsey Curse?
When people talk about curses in professional sports, they are typically talking about the way an outside force affects a professional athlete on the field. However, in Ramsey’s case, it has to do with his perceived ability to predict a major death every time he scores a goal on the soccer field.
The Curse of Aaron Ramsey, or as it is popularly known, ‘The Aaron Ramsey Curse’ is a popular conspiracy theory according to which a famous celebrity is bound to die soon after he nets the ball in a match.
It is said that the curse first began back in 2009 when Ramsey scored for Wales. The first victim of the curse was the beloved broadcaster, Andres Montes, who died right after Ramsey’s first goal with the Welsh National team.
The Ramsey Curse has been recognized for several years, with some going back and revising its impact as more and more fall victim to it. This is not like the Babe Ruth Curse with the Boston Red Sox in the National Baseball League in the USA or the Kardashian and Drake Curses for several teams and athletes in basketball. Instead, according to this curse, every time Ramsey scores, somebody notable loses his life.
Who all are linked to the “Aaron Ramsey Curse”?
- Ted Kennedy, August 25, 2009 – Three days after he scored against Portsmouth
- Andrés Montes, October 14, 2009 – Two days after his first goal with Wales, the admired Spanish football and basketball commentator passed away
- Osama Bin Laden, May 2, 2011 – A day after he scored against Manchester United
- Steve Jobs, October 5, 2011 – Three days after he scored against Tottenham Hotspurs
- Muammar Gaddafi, October 20, 2011 – A day after he scored against Marseille
- Whitney Houston, February 11, 2012 – A day after he scored against Sunderland
- Ray Williams and Boris Berezovsky March 23, – Ramsey scored on March 21
- Ken Norton, September 18, 2013 – The ame day he scored against Marseille
- Paul Walker, November 30, 2013 – The same day he scored against Cardiff
- Robin Williams, August 11, 2014 – The day after he scored against Manchester City
- Rubin Carter, April 20, 2014 – The same day he scored against Hull City
- David Bowie, January 10, 2016 – A day after he scored against Sunderland
- Alan Rickman, January 14, 2016 – A day after he scored against Liverpool
Can the Aaron Ramsey Curse be put at a halt?
If anyone is being honest with themselves, they will know that notable people are constantly dying. One cannot go more than a few hours without hearing about somebody of note dying in some way. Thus, it is easy to prescribe a curse such as this even though it can be associated to literally any football player who has scored goals during their career.
The internet has fun with curses and petty sports insights, and the Ramsey curse is just an extension of the same. Until somebody can link the deaths to something he has done, it will continue to be applied as loosely or tightly as it exists, to fit it into the narrative created by fans and boring football personalities.
Also, on a sarcastic note, the best way to do this is to stop Aaron Ramsey from ever scoring a goal again.
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