Chelsea football team ban camels from their stadium.

[Blackleaf]

As English Champions Chelsea were accused of using "devious tactics" (cheating?) by dumping tons of sand onto their football pitch in order to ruin it for the upcoming game against Barcelona, two men decided to go to Chelsea's Stamford Bridge stadium with a camel.





Chelsea get 'hump' with Sun

Camel jokers ... Tim and Oliver (in shades) don some desert-style togs at Chelsea ground

By OLIVER HARVEY
Reporter Of The Year

and TIM SPANTON

October 07, 2006

CHELSEA FC got hot under the collar when The Sun’s camel train tried to invade their Sahara-like pitch.

Sons of the desert Oliver Harvey and Tim Spanton had a Beau Geste with the club after they dumped tons of sand on the Stamford Bridge grass on Wednesday.

Chelsea have been accused of using the ploy to spoil the turf for a Champions League clash with Barcelona in a fortnight.

Having a laugh ... Tim and Oliver, either side of our story, yesterday


Yesterday our intrepid pair — dressed as Lawrence of Arabia and a French Foreign Legion officer — took three camels down the Fulham Road and up to the main entrance to the West London club — but they were stopped by four security guards. One said: “Sorry, mate, you can’t bring those camels in here.”

An onlooker joked: “I’ve seen a few donkeys at Stamford Bridge but a camel is a real first.”

thesun.co.uk

 

[gopher]

When you think about it, the authorities are doing that poor beast a big favor as you Britons are noted for the heaviness of your diet. I can well imagine a few drunken types might try to carve up that camel and feast on his flesh as if it was mutton.