Whats is the weirdest thing to stop a game?

[Bingoman]

With a Drone over the Brentford Community stadium stopping play and a Fox stopping play at Leyton orient just wondering what is the strangest or weirdest thing you have seen or heard that stop a game?

I remember watching a Bolton vs Arsenal match the game was interrupted by someone with a parachute flying into the ground

 

[ska invita]

and again



loads of cat on the field videos in fact

 

[hash tag]

I've seen the ball kicked out of the ground at both Colchester and Southend and a few dogs on the pitch. Streakers were once a thing.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Charlton v Coventry stopped after plastic pigs thrown on pitch

Charlton and Coventry fans throw hundreds of plastic pigs on the pitch in a joint protest that interrupted Saturday's match at The Valley.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

The one that stands out for me as a Lincoln fan is the delay to Torquay's last game of the 1987 season because a Police dog bit their keeper.

Naturally they scored in the time added on and we got relegated.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

loads of cat on the field videos in fact

i did manage to cause some speculation on a charlton forum after that, about getting a player from everton on a pussman transfer (some people didn't get the joke, even when someone else argued that the player in question was a flea agent)

 

[spring-peeper]

The team was down an unrecoverable amount, so they stole all the footballs.

The game was called due to lack of balls.

 

[spring-peeper]

Another time, the game was called due to fog.

 

[hash tag]

That start of palace games was often delayed - balloons on pitch

 

[stavros]

Corner flags being stolen:

 

[A380]

From league in Australia. 'Not' stopping play when a four year old wandered onto the pitch...

 

[Ax^]

 

[Ax^]

bah can only find a daily hail video

 

[Bus Honeygun]

The one that stands out for me as a Lincoln fan is the delay to Torquay's last game of the 1987 season because a Police dog bit their keeper.

Naturally they scored in the time added on and we got relegated.

Jim McNichol, our defender, to be nitpicky.

The dog was called Bryn and there's a beer named after him.

Given our respective positions in the football pyramid, though, I guess you had the last laugh.

 

[Bus Honeygun]

I do recall a mid-winter game at Plainmoor where the floodlights packed up. One of our perennial relegation battles and - sod's law - we were winning for the first time in months.

After about 15 minutes of no action on fixing the lights the ref was on the verge of abandoning the match, but our caretaker manager at the time (who is largely remembered for this act alone) stalled him long enough for someone to magic up an electrician.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Given our respective positions in the football pyramid, though, I guess you had the last laugh.

After 35 years we're not bitter. Any more.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

on the subject of floodlights -

 

[Steel Icarus]

Jobby on the pitch

Scottish football match delayed because referee spotted 'jobby' on the pitch

The incident took place during the second half of a match between Spartans and Gretna 2008.

www.dailyrecord.co.uk

England legend Gary Lineker, who famously pooed himself during a game, was also on the ball as he tweeted: "No, I wasn't there."

 

[Puddy_Tat]

 

[WouldBe]

Not playing Leicester were they?

 

[The39thStep]

PAOK owner disputes 89th minute offside decsion by invading pitch carrying a gun

 

[ska invita]

PAOK owner disputes 89th minute offside decsion by invading pitch carrying a gun



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i think we can all relate to that one

 

[WouldBe]

Who is PAOK?

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Who is PAOK?

Panthessaloníkios Athlitikós Ómilos Konstadinoupolitón, Greek football team -

PAOK FC - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[WouldBe]

Panthessaloníkios Athlitikós Ómilos Konstadinoupolitón, Greek football team -

PAOK FC - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

That's why I couldn't work out who they were.

 

[Fairweather]

I enjoy watching The Big Match Revisited on ITV4 and it’s amusing how many dogs got onto pitches and stopped play in the 70’s and 80’s. If you follow a Sheffield team there’s always eleven pigs on the pitch during a Derby game providing nobody gets sent off.

 

[hash tag]

Balls stopped play!

Birmingham City match interrupted by tennis ball protest

Tennis balls were thrown from all four stands and chants against the club’s owners were evident for fourth home match in a row

www.birminghammail.co.uk

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Balls stopped play!

charlton fans did that as well 'balls to roland' [duchatelet - then owner] but with beach balls (think there was another match where stress balls or tennis balls or something were involved as well as the match previously mentioned involving pigs.)

 

[The39thStep]

Football stadium food vendor hospitalised after 'accidentally slam dunking own head' into deep fat fryer | BAZAKE Media

Chaos was unleashed by misplaced shot during the second-half of an Xtermin8 Rat Poison Football League match in South London

www.bazake.co.uk

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Streatham Rovers do seem to have a lot of strange accidents happen at their ground...