User blog:Alemas2005/Let's play chicken...

Blackburn Rovers are a small team in English football (soccer). They managed to win a title in the 90s, but now they are relegated from the Premier League (the top tier) to the Championship.

The cause of Blackburn's demise, is, according to their fans, the coach, Steve Kean, and the owners, Venky's, an Indian poultry company.

On Sunday, they faced Wigan, another relegation-threatened team. Five minutes into the game, a chicken draped in a Blackburn flag invaded the pitch and into Wigan's penalty area. Thankfully, nothing potentially game-changing was happening, so it was just a small matter of catching the chicken after the referee stopped play. The invasion caused a pandemic of fowl chicken-related jokes in the live BBC Sport text feed by Twitter followers.

During the second half, a disgruntled Rovers fan invaded the pitch and bolted for the Rovers dug-out. He was whisked away before he could do anything bad to the poor coach.

Then, at the 87th minute, Wigan scored, and Blackburn were relegated.

Have you seen any other animal-related protests in sport?