Cardiff City defend pest control policy after rat halts Wales football match

  • Wales’s World Cup qualifying loss to Belgium interrupted

  • ‘It’s something I’ve not seen in my 36 years at Cardiff City’

Cardiff City have defended their pest control policy after a rat halted play during the second half of Wales’s World Cup qualifier against Belgium.

The Real Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois made an unsuccessful attempt to catch the rodent during Belgium’s 4-2 win on Monday night before the Wales substitute Brennan Johnson ushered the rat off the Cardiff City Stadium pitch. The rat then slipped past a ball boy and disappeared behind the VAR monitor and was not seen again.

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