AS the press corps (and me) - along with
club officials, players, etc, waited at Jackson Avenue for the full coach
party to turn up, the club's resident fox took to the pitch to provide a
little entertainment.
The fox - who was, we were
assured, called Basil - first of all ran around the pitch, not showing
much dribbling or goal-scoring skills. But his antics attracted the
attention of a rook (above). Maybe Basil has been robbing its nest. As it
swooped in low, Basil stood on his hind legs in an apparent attempt to
catch it. Although neither adversary seems to be making a serious attempt
to actually make contact with the other.
Suddenly, two more rooks swooped
in to the help of their feathered colleague. But the skirmish was soon
over and all four participants left the pitch.
Some youngsters who has missed
the excitement went in search of Basil, but too late. He had gone to
ground.
Sorry about the fuzzy picture. If
I had taken a telephoto lens along as I had planned I might have got a
better shot! This has been enlarged from a small part of the original
image
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