The Owl Incident

Tonight Finland won Belgium in a football match, so we can still dream about reaching Euro 2008 finals. It's a slim chance, but if we continue to play this well, who knows. :)

The funniest thing was though that a very handsome eagle owl landed on the pitch, and the match was held up for several minutes. The owl is known to reside on the stadium, but he's never interfered with the game before. He circled around the stadium, and sat on the goal posts. I don't think the referees knew what to do either. Fortunately the owl finally decided to leave the pitch, and the play continued. (I hope the experience didn't shake him up too badly.)



The picture is taken by Markus Jokela from Helsingin Sanomat. I usually try to respect the copyright rules, but this time I just couldn't resist, sorry.