If only the game was at Barking FC, then this might have been a better story. It was actually at Leicester Nirvana FC, a club that might consider having been RUFFly treated over the weekend.
The Leicester Nirvana club, on Saturday, was playing in the United Counties Premier League, Step 5, for their first game since October. It was abandoned eventually, because a large Alsation (dog) repeatedly ran onto their pitch.
Nirvana were leading GNG Oadby Town (nickname the Poachers, by the way) 2-1 with 12 minutes left on the clock. The dog could not be controlled and the ref had no option but to stop the game as the pooche's owner, a home fan, did nothing to help! The dog made its last stand in front of the opposition's dug out, with its owner, dragging it off the pitch and out of the ground. The ref had already dismissed a player from each team following a fiery encounter, during normal time, but he couldn't shift the dog quickly enough. Perhaps Nirvana should employ a club mascot, fitting their badge?
The club formed as a merger in 2008 between Thurnby Rangers (originally a Sunday league team) and FC Nirvana formed in the mid 1980s.
"GNG" Oadby is an amalgamation of Oadby Imperial FC (founded in 1937 approx) which then became Oadby Town in 1951 and in 2020, Guru Nanak Gurdwara was added (GNG) to the club name, in recognition of the contribution made by the local residents to save the club from financial disaster in 2018.
It could be worse.....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDR2RG7Zsb8 this on Guernsey when 180 rampant (well nearly) cows escaped. To add insult to pitch damage, the cows weren't even Guernseys!
ps. Nirvana: (Buddhism/Hinduism) the state/place of great happiness or peace. It does have other meanings.....
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