Streaker Taken Down With Vengeance by Team Mascot Bertie Bee

Description via the Times Online:

The giant furry mascot is arguably the worst innovation of the Premier League era, but one of them was responsible for the funniest thing I have witnessed at a football match. It was a Lancashire derby between Burnley and Preston North End when a streaker stopped play, slaloming between the grappling attempts of several overweight stewards before his fun was ended abruptly and quite gruesomely by Bertie Bee, who, beneath the benign exterior, is a stocky skinhead with a rugby league background.

You have never heard a cheer like the one that greeted Bertie’s intervention that day and, if that sounds slightly odd, you have clearly never been to Turf Moor, a place where raw passion meets self-deprecating humour and occasional surrealism.

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