OFFSIDE OFFSIDE Thirteen ponies turn up to play hockey
A groundsman at Were Di Tilburg in The Netherlands was shocked to discover thirteen ponies on his pitch when he turned up for his morning’s work.
The highly unusual sight of the four-legged animals were discovered on the outfi eld on Friday morning, with the gates locked - suggesting that it was a deliberate act -
before the police were called.
According to
hockey.nl, club chair Fabienne van Engelen received a message saying: “We have thirteen new four-legged members. I just think they can’t play hockey very well and they aren’t that fast either.”
It was only when the men in blue turned up was it realised that the ponies had been temporarily put on the pitch by the police themselves after they had been spotted roaming the streets the previous night.
According to the owner, the ponies had been lost for two days.
Botham ‘out of his depth’ in RSPB beef
There has been much ruffl ing of feathers since Sir Ian Botham reignited his ongoing feud with the RSPB, this time in the Telegraph.
New sporting craze
Rugby Golf is the latest sporting craze sweeping USA and Europe, apparently!
Rugby golf involves punting rugby balls down the fairway and courses can vary from between nine and eighteen holes.
The hybrid sport is being played all over the UK, France and the US, allegedly. It requires both the lower body strength of rugby and the precision of golf.
There are fi fteen core rules you need to stick to including: shots from the fairway can be kicked ‘ball in hand’ and, if a ball is on the
His October column revved up under the headline ‘I won’t let the eco-woke ruin our countryside’ and launched into an attack on ‘grim eco-warriors’ such as ‘the BBC’s Chris Packham,’ and, inevitably, the RSPB - whom he had threatened to sue in 2015 in a spat over hen harriers.
green, it must be thrown and not kicked.
The games founders, The Association Française de RugbyGolf, hope it will advance the kicking game of rugby.
This time he went on the attack against the RSPB’s campaign to end the burning of heathland in winter, accusing it of hating country folk and being ‘a nightmare for nature.’ The ‘You Forgot The Birds Campaign’, for which Botham has been a spokesperson, is reportedly funded by elements behind the British grouse industry.
Mark Cocker, a naturalist and regular contributor to the Guardian’s Country Diary, was blunt. “I love Botham, don’t get me wrong, but his article was tawdry and he should know better.”
Club f inds two people having sex in a bunker
Several clubs have reported misuse of their courses since their venues closed in March - with reports including people
using quad bikes, riding horses and picnicking in bunkers.
However, according to the Scottish Daily Record, Glenbervie Golf Club Chairman, Ronnie Neil, sent out a newsletter in which he told members of ‘a couple engaging in sexual relations within a bunker’ - (yes, this was actually witnessed).
He added: “Obviously, we would all like our course to be in as good a condition as possible when we reopen and acts like some of those listed above do not support this goal. Nobody minds people taking a stroll round the course, but this isn’t Butlin’s.”
112 PC December/January 2021
“Owners of driven-grouse moors are setting fi re to peatbog, which is the single most valuable habitat in Britain for the sequestering of carbon, and which it does more eff ectively than rainforest. When the RSPB seeks to improve the conditions of other parts of nature - trees, fl owers, insects - they are still doing good works for birds. You can’t abstract birds from nature, they are all inextricable parts of a single system - this is the critical point that he is missing.”
If you spot anything you think might give readers a chuckle send it to:
kerry.haywood@pitchcare.com
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