"It's for a psychological effect against our opponent... they will fear that we have come with juju or magical powers.
-- Anson Richards of Ghana, on why he and other supporters of the Ghanaian Black Stars football team often dress like "witch doctors" during World Cup matches
And here I felt bad making jokes about this kind of thing on Facebook and Twitter during the USA game last weekend. Turns out looking like a cliché -- like Baron Samedi from Live and Let Die -- was the idea all along.
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