{
  "id": 355745,
  "title": "Ever thought your football team might be under a curse like Ted Lasso’s? Here’s how to lift it | Helen Pilcher",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/09/ever-thought-your-football-team-might-be-under-a-curse-like-ted",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-09T07:00:09.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Science",
    "slug": "guardian-science",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/09/football-team-curse-ted-lasso-mayo-birmingham-city"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "From Mayo to Birmingham City, sports lore is rife with powerful hexes. There’s nothing mystical about the dread and self-doubt they can induce As the new season of Ted Lasso started, I was reminded of one of the show’s stranger storylines. When Dani “Football is life!” Rojas gets injured, his teammates blame the incident on a curse said to haunt the treatment room. Absurd? Perhaps. But sports…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}