For the fans it was unpopular, ex-owner Mohammed al-Fayed she considered a good luck charm: the Michael Jackson statue at the stadium of FC Fulham. For Fayed is the degradation of the figure the reason for the descent of Magath clubs.

The Fulham FC stands after a disastrous season in the English Premier League ahead of schedule fixed relegated . On Saturday a 1:4 defeat against Stoke City sealed the transition to the second division . Felix Magath, since mid-February, coach of the club, already apologized in an open letter to the fans for the poor performance .

For the reasons of the decline of the former owner of the club , the businessman Mohammed al -Fayed , a unique declaration : The degradation of the Michael Jackson statue that Fayed had in 2011 erected and which had been removed in September , was to blame .

” This statue was a lucky charm and we have this happiness away from the club . Now we have to pay the price,” Fayed said, according to the British newspaper “The Guardian” . As had asked him the new owner Shahid Khan to dismantle the statue , he had said : “You must be crazy. ” The fans would have also loved the statue , as Fayed : ” Khan has called me because he wanted to set up the Michael Jackson figure back , I answered him . ‘ Under no circumstances ‘ ”

In fact, just 2.30 meters high statue was not loved by all fans. Some had protested against it , which was the reason for the breakdown , according to Khan. Although Jackson visited 1999 match of Fulham , but the statue installed Fayed mainly because he was a friend of the singer who died in 2009 .

As Fayed had sold the club in the summer of 2013 to Khan, he is said to have imposed upon him , that the statue must remain in front of a grandstand of the stadium Craven Cottage . In September, however, it was dismantled and returned Fayed . It has now been placed in the National Football Museum in Manchester.

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