They may look like the sort of apparel you'd usually sport on the morning after 12 pints, just so the elasticated waist can provide enough give to support two hangover curing trips to Maccy D's and an evening Domino's, just for good measure, but Gabor Kiraly has made a name for himself by wearing grey tracksuit bottoms, as a professional footballer, for the last 16 years.

But, why?

Why would you favour a pair of pants that look like they might have been found in the lost property bin of a secondary school? Are they fused to him? Are his legs allergic to grass? Is he constantly hungover?

Kiraly

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In fact, the reason the oldest player at Euro 2016 wears those snazzy, grey marl bastards is down to a longstanding superstition or "kabbalah", as he explained during an interview, in 2005:

"The more good games I had in them, the more I got used to them. I had many good games in them, especially at Hertha Berlin in the Champions League and with the Hungarian national team."

