FALKIRK, Scotland—The players from the seaside town of North Berwick were up against it in the clash against local favorites Mill AFC. Win and they could go top of their local amateur soccer league here in Scotland. But Mill were tough opponents, quick to get in North Berwick’s faces.

The Uri in question is Uri Geller, the psychic propelled to fame in the 1970s for bending spoons with what he said was the power of his mind—and, since August, the North Berwick team’s chairman.