It’s perhaps fitting for a club that never seems to go anywhere that Barnsley’s latest fan is a small rodent who enjoys running in circles in a small wheel.
Footage on social media shows a Tykes fan with a pet hamster – apparently called Hector – in his hood as he watches the side’s League One game at Walsall’s Bescot Stadium. And despite leading to the highly humourous chant of “He’s got a hamster, in his hood” by the Oakwell faithful, an RSPCA spokeswoman was not amused.
“Taking any animal to a noisy, crowded environment such as a football match is likely to be stressful,” she said. “This is particularly the case for hamsters which are nocturnal animals that spend most of the day sleeping and become active in the evening and at night.”
It could have been even worse if he’d got on to the pitch in his hamster ball. Still, if you’re going to die, what better way to do it than being blasted into the top-left corner of a football net by a League One journeyman.
 
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