Colombian player mistakes a massive feathery owl for a football
Great spot by FourFourTwo, Pies… Everyone really
The Spoiler must’ve been distracted by all the ridiculous own goals, outrageous sendings-off and England’s player of the year SHOOTING SOMEONE yesterday, because we completely missed this.
So, rather belatedly is our ‘Absolutely mental weekend 5′ article – A Player kicks an injured owl off the pitch…
Call us wishy-washy-liberal-tree-huggers, but if The Spoiler saw an animal in distress, we like to think we’d help it. If it was in a stadium full of people IN COLOMBIA we’d definitely help it. We certainly wouldn’t kick it off the pitch after it’s just been tw*tted with a football.
But that’s what Pereira defender Luis Moreno decided was the most appropriate course of action with his side trailing 2-1 and that bloody owl stopping his game.
According to FourFourTwo, the crowd started chanting ‘murderer’ at the player. That was harsh though because the owl was only ‘seriously injured’. Have a heart, fans!
Moreno later apologised, saying:
“I apologise to the fans, it wasn’t my intention.”
Quite what his intention was remains a mystery. Maybe he mistook the massive bird with feathers and eyes and a beak and a heart and pain receptors for a football?
The Colombian league don’t buy that excuse though, and look set to come down hard on him, with league president Ramon Jesurum saying:
“The player should be severely punished for this painful, horrible act of intolerance.”
C’mon, footballers! Could one of you PLEASE do something nice?
The Spoiler is struggling to defend the game in the face of chino-wearing, polo shirt-sporting, jumpers-over-shoulders-styled, deck-shoe-bedecked rugger buggers and their gentlemanly game.
Danny Cipriani being a t*t is helping us, but we need more assistance from actual footballers. Please?
UPDATE! Thanks to a tip-off from Spoiler reader revengeOfTheOwl, we’ve since found out the owl died.
The Junior mascot died of respiratory failure and – according to Colombia Reports – judicial authorities are going to press charges against Luis Moreno.
8 responses so far
revengeOfTheOwl // March 1, 2011 at 2:22 pm
According to last updates, the owl died. The guy’s excuse was actually – and this is not made up – “I wanted to make it fly again”
Mental, you said ?
Chicha Rita // March 1, 2011 at 3:44 pm
This is horrifying. The man is a sociopath.
“Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character; and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.”
–Arthur Schopenhauer (19th century German philosopher)
JJ // March 1, 2011 at 6:00 pm
How big of a cunt is this guy?
It´s not like he lifted the bird with his foot, which would have been bad enough… he fucking kicked it!
What a cunt…
ahh! // March 1, 2011 at 6:43 pm
castrate him for it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! do it in front of a full stadium before kickoff for a pre game show.
Linda // March 1, 2011 at 6:52 pm
Maybe I just need him to see how it feels. Have De Jong break his leg and then Diouf can stand over him and tell him to f*#k him and his leg. And then give him a swift kick to get him off the field.
Soccer Mom // March 2, 2011 at 2:48 am
Gross cruelty… disgrace to humans.
Ron Gordon // March 2, 2011 at 1:20 pm
Well I guess this teaches us that being a footballer isn’t easy…
While trying not to write off your supercar; or throw elbows at people; or shoot work experience kids with rifles –you have to remember not to spaff injured owls in their feathery little face. Lessons learned all round.
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