A FOOTBALL match had to be postponed after the pitch was devastated by a flock of 200 SHEEP.
The unruly horde left huge piles of poo littered across the playing surface, which officials deemed to be a health hazard to players.
St Neot AFC, a football club based in Cornwall, posted a comment on Facebook confirming the postponement of their game against Looe Town 2nds, and claiming it was a “football first”.
The post in full said: “Our game versus Looe Town 2nds has unfortunately had to be postponed.
“Now I’m sure you’ve heard of games being called off for rain, snow and ice, we have what we believe to be a football first, our game has had to be postponed due to….. Sheep!
“That’s right, sheep!
“Unfortunately we had a pitch invasion of sheep overnight and this morning, we have removed them but they have left us behind several presents of a smelly variety which has made our pitch unplayable.”
Matt Nottle, the manager of St Neot AFC who compete in the Division Four East of the Kernow Stone St Piran League – step 11 of the English pyramid – was pictured scooping up some of the poo left behind by the woolly trespassers following their invasion from a nearby field.
Football has seen its fair share of strange reasons to postpone matches.
In 2018 a South West Peninsula Division One East fixture between Teignmouth against Crediton United had to be cancelled because the goalposts did not turn up on time for the match.
In Australia the same year, a pitch invasion from a single kangaroo saw a match between Canberra FC and Belconnen United delayed as it tried to find a spot to lay down for a nap.
A real strange one in Torquay dates back to 1999, when a Worthington Cup First Round fixture between Torquay and Portsmouth was called off due to coinciding with the UK’s first solar eclipse since 1927.
Local police requested the postponement of the game due to the logistical nightmare which had come with the south-west of England being prime viewing for the historic lunar event.
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