They Thought it was All Over ..... But Maybe It Isn't!

[cromwell]

Ten? That's a bigger crowd than Leeds are getting!
Buzzards?
A bit like a cowboy film. The centre forward goes down under a heavy tackle and lies prostrate, only to look to the skies and see the buzzards a-circlin'!
He'd get up pretty quick!
Great read Os!

[Workingman]

Buzzards?
A bit like a cowboy film. The centre forward goes down under a heavy tackle and lies prostrate, only to look to the skies and see the buzzards a-circlin'!
He'd get up pretty quick!!

Birds and football, eh - and I do not mean the WAGs.

Son's U12s were drawn in a cup against Kirk Deighton. Just to the front and left of one penalty area a flock of about 20 seagulls had taken up residence, but the ref thought they would move once the game got under way. The seagulls had other ideas and would simply rise up as the ball and players approached then flutter down again.... that was until they got fed up and started attacking players and ball alike.

The game was halted and we took the nets down and put them up on another pitch. The game was restarted with a dropped ball and all was well. Attendance: some mums and dads and a flock of gulls. Gulls 1-0 Humans.

Kit-Kats at 20p, Ossie, bargain!

[TheOstrich]

Son's U12s were drawn in a cup against Kirk Deighton. Just to the front and left of one penalty area a flock of about 20 seagulls had taken up residence, but the ref thought they would move once the game got under way. The seagulls had other ideas and would simply rise up as the ball and players approached then flutter down again.... that was until they got fed up and started attacking players and ball alike.
The game was halted and we took the nets down and put them up on another pitch. The game was restarted with a dropped ball and all was well. Attendance: some mums and dads and a flock of gulls. Gulls 1-0 Humans.

That reminds me of my visit to Barnes Rugby Club a couple of years ago when due to a bad injury, we had to de-camp from the main rugby stadium and walk right to the other end of the playing fields where there was a vacant pitch. That pitch was occupied by around 60 Canada Geese. As we (players, officials, spectators) walked onto one end of the pitch, the geese waddled off from the other end - both humans and birds giving each other the evil eye as we passed on the path ... it was a bit reminiscent of a Wild West stand-off in the main street in Deadwood !

You used to see nothing but buzzards round here (usually sitting on top of telephone poles alongside the roads) but they are getting increasingly rare these days - they are being forced out by a growing influx of the larger red kites, which are spreading south-west from the Chilterns. Easy to distinguish the species by the tail - the buzzards have wedge-shaped tails, whilst the kites have forked tails.

[cromwell]

Buzzards?
A bit like a cowboy film. The centre forward goes down under a heavy tackle and lies prostrate, only to look to the skies and see the buzzards a-circlin'!
He'd get up pretty quick!!

Birds and football, eh - and I do not mean the WAGs.

Son's U12s were drawn in a cup against Kirk Deighton. Just to the front and left of one penalty area a flock of about 20 seagulls had taken up residence, but the ref thought they would move once the game got under way. The seagulls had other ideas and would simply rise up as the ball and players approached then flutter down again.... that was until they got fed up and started attacking players and ball alike.

The game was halted and we took the nets down and put them up on another pitch. The game was restarted with a dropped ball and all was well. Attendance: some mums and dads and a flock of gulls. Gulls 1-0 Humans.

Seagulls can be obnoxious critters, for certain!

[TheOstrich]

Seagulls can be obnoxious critters, for certain!

You've been reading the Daily Star, Crommers ....

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest ... e-21677249

[cromwell]

Yes Os, and that first photo is of the bandstand in the harbour at Whitby, 20 yards from where a gull mugged me for my chips!

[TheOstrich]

No footie today - it's bucketed down all morning here, the guttering has been overflowing, and the rain only ceased around 12:30. I don't really fancy standing on mud beside a wet pitch for a cold, blustery afternoon, despite all the potential delights of Queen Camel v Odcombe.

Got to be sensible at my age these days, I'm afraid ....

[Kaz]

Aw my in-laws stomping ground too!

Best to be sensible though Ossie xxx

[cromwell]

Definitely the right move!

[Workingman]

It looks as though the Ostrich is going to have to take up Subbuteo or crochet.

All football below National Leagues North or South is cancelled due to the missing commonsenseovirus in the FA. Nobody knows when this happened, it could have been decades ago, but what is now known is that the panicdemicavirus has taken hold in its place. The new virus is not deadly, it simply scrambles the thinking process, but it is known to be 100% infectious and is in place at all levels: there is no known cure.