Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 08, 2014

I too would be concerned about the Indians’ feet being painfully stepped on by the other teams’ cleats.

One of the World Cup’s sponsors must have been a shoe company.

Hmm, very interesting

I swear the people who study Psychology do it to discover what’s wrong with them.

Wouldn’t an “irrational fear” be one of something to which there is no danger? There is a danger involved in trains (not that I have a phobia of trains).

would there have been any little toad’s on return?

Sigmund Freud was a psychiatrist, not a psychologist., two very different disciplines.

That was more the excuse the Indian FA gave after realising refusing to go to the World Cup was a huge mistake, according to their captain at the time. They’ve never qualified since, just to rub salt in. They didn’t feel the World Cup was important, so they declined to travel to Brazil, even though the majority of their travel costs would have been covered.

I think Freud’s train phobia stems from his near-fatal sword duel with Baron von Leinsdorf on the roof of the Orient Express in 1891…as described in John H. Watson’s memoir “The Seven-Per-Cent Solution.”

Word is, “Siggy” also had a thing for tunnels

So…I’m guessing Freud was "Un-Loco-motivated ?