Poor Conchita Wurst. Since winning this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, haters have used her as a scapegoat for a series of tragedies. Last month religious leaders blamed her for the Balkan floods. Now some football fans say she is responsible for Spain’s shock World Cup exit.
So why is all this happening? Well, it’s all down to series of bizzare coincidences regarding the last time Austria won the Eurovision Song Contest, which was in 1966.
1966 and 2014: The Parallels
Atletico Madrid won La Liga
Real Betis were relegated
Deportivo La Coruña were promoted from Spain’s second division
Real Madrid conquered European football
Both AC Milan and Manchester United failed to qualify for Europe
Last but not least, Spain went into the World Cup as European champions, but went out in the group stage
So does this mean England will miraculously get out of the group stage and win the whole thing? Or will Brazil, being the host nation, secure a record sixth World Cup? Looks like the answers may lie with Conchita…
Update, 20 June 2014: They think it’s all over, it is now! Costa Rica has sealed England’s World Cup fate. It’s all down to Brazil to deliver the expectations as the host nation.
Photo: Eurovision.tv (EBU)
@Anthony: The article you linked doesn’t cite any sources or provide any evidence that anyone actually believes this nonsense apart from the writer. As it stands, it’s just somebody’s blog, and the writer hasn’t backed up his or her claim. That’s especially egregious given the headline of “Spain blames…” – who is this blogger to assert without any evidence that this is the position of an entire country, let alone anyone but himself?
People believe some ridiculous things about Conchita, but I’m not convinced this is one of them.
Mario and everyone else, read THIS and see what you think of the source where it all started, considering they’re the only ones (before we did) to report on this…:
https://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/the-rio-report/spain-blames-world-cup-disaster-eurovision-winning-bearded-091202590.html
Sadly, we can’t travel back in time and re-write the history books.
I endorsed Conchita when USA played Ghana.
USA won.
Conchita’s gonna get us to the finals! If not win! We will rise like a phoenix!
Hay cierta prensa AMARILLA…quieren hacer del personaje Conchita, GAFE.
Read my name, I only speak the truth.
Not only did she cost spain qualification, she probably is responsible for England’s World Cup exit aswell
ok this is getting ridiculous…
Will now Bosnia also blame Conchita for their, perhaps, so obvious World Cup exit?
What an stupid coment. In Spain nobody talk about such absurdities.
What do you think that in Spain we still drive a carriage??
You must better to invite people to visite our country just to confirm that Spain lives in same century than you¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡
No one in Spain has said that. Some creepy eurofan journalist has made it up so now all Spanish seem stupid. Meh!
What I find amazing is all of you people are on conch it’s side after all this
Has everybody lost their frigging sense of humor? Happily Conchita still has hers.
Hey! I lost my car keys today! AND the weather’s cold! Damn Conchita, it’s all her fault!
Seriously, people …!!!
This isn’t true!!!!!! Everybody is talking about the coincidence, not about the Conchitas fault!! If you don’t have any information don’t write articles, stop the lies!
Novelty act? Excuse you!
Hope Ruth will participate for Spain again
Hey Realist
You are not much a realist to be honest with you. You are more of a Bullsh*tter in fairness. Conchita did not cause the floods in the Balkans. Neither did she cause Spanish football players grief. What next, she caused some guy to threaten me earlier on while I was on my bike (that I got for Christmas in 2013) and accused me of stealing it and nearly got me arrested something I didn’t do!!!!!!! (That really happened today. No Joke 🙁 ) Give me a break and stop blaming Conchita for everything. 😀
@Realist
Your a knob!
Final straw? what are you gunna do? fucking dumbass!
@realist: Well, how do you know they are *real* friends? hmm??? Maybe Ruth is a double agent and passed information to Conchita for this, maybe their supposed friendship was all staged, hmmm… let’s let that sink in…
Okay that’s the final straw, looks like killing 50 innocent Balkans wasn’t enough, she now had to break the hearts of Spanish soccer fans >:(, even after making a great relationship with Ruth, does that mean nothing to conchita? Sure seems like it.
ESPAÑA culpa a SU seleccion nacional de futbol,por su mal juego, ni mas ni menos
I shall repeat again, drag queens are dumb! That includes Conchita Wurst. I HATE CONCHITA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dont let Dhani see this article, we will never hear the end of it!
That is kind of creepy with all the coincidences, but people said the same thing with similarities between JFK and Lincoln in the USA, so I don’t think there’s anything major coming out of this. Anyways, maybe the title should be changed so that people don’t assume the government/national team said that it’s her fault.
Jose, this came from the Yahoo! Eurosport website, saying “that’s the conspiracy theory currently flooding through Spain”. So we did not make all this up.
Hmmm in my country usually at this period we are on the beach,but now it’s windy and it rains… let’s blame Conchita for this.
I don’t know if Spanish said this or not but it is just a ridiculous statement
Wow, those are a lot of coincidences, that is very interesting indeed 😛
How can I contact Conchita? I want her to make Mexico win the Cup, being as powerful as she is, it shouldn’t be a problem.
Finally England out too. So not all myth about 1966 in 2014 is true. Lol
“does this mean England will miraculously get out of the group stage and win the whole thing?”
No
Oh God, The sky is falling because Conchita Wurst won Eurovision!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(I have gone all Chicken Little here, c. 2006 Disney)
BUT SERIOUSLY LADS, GROW THE HELL UP ALL OF YOU AND BE MORE ACCEPTING OF EVERYONE’S DIFFERENCES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE TREATED IF YOU WERE A BEARDED LADY WHO HAS NOT HAD AN EASY LIFE SO FAR?
World is getting dumber and dumber…
You should write true articles! :L, Dunno where did you find that information, but it’s false, I’m spanish and no one blamed our exit from the football world cup to Conchita Wurst. The funny thing is that people believe it, it’s hilarious…
Not only in 1966 but also in 1998, which was won by Israeli transsexual singer to make Spain lost in the group stages. So sad Spain lost & i always support Spain in Football anything in this story #VamosEspaña 🙁
No, it´s just because Spain was playing very bad.