Cardiff City Defend Pest Control Policy After Rat Halts Wales Football Match

Cardiff City person defended their (seed) disease power argumentation aft a rat halted play during nan 2nd half of Wales’s World Cup qualifier against Belgium.

The Real Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois made an unsuccessful effort to drawback nan rodent during Belgium’s 4-2 triumph connected Monday nighttime earlier nan Wales substitute Brennan Johnson ushered nan rat disconnected nan Cardiff City Stadium pitch. The rat past slipped past a shot boy and vanished down nan VAR show and was not seen again.

“It’s thing I’ve not seen successful my 36 years astatine Cardiff City,” said Wayne Nash, nan club’s caput of operations who besides useful arsenic a information head for nan Football Association of Wales and Uefa. “We’ve had a stray canine connected nan transportation but this was thing new, a freak of nature.

“The stadium is adjacent to allotments and railway sidings and we cognize rats tin beryllium problematic. The railway bankings tin beryllium infested pinch rats. We cognize they are successful nan area and we do person nan overseas sighting of them. But we activity intimately pinch our (seed) disease power partners and do everything we tin to support them away.”

Rat bait stations are successful cognition astatine nan stadium and nan nine opportunity stringent cleaning policies are followed. Nash said: “We prime up litter and nutrient for illustration half-eaten burgers consecutive aft games. Everything is put away.

“They opportunity you are ne'er excessively acold from a rat, particularly successful cities, and this 1 managed to get in. People person seen a rat connected nan transportation arsenic rather funny, but it does person superior undertones. If I was nan shot boy aliases Brennan Johnson I would person tally a mile.”