VIDEO. Hilarious footage of a deer running onto the pitch and tackling a rugby player in the middle of a match

An amateur rugby match was disrupted by an unusual intrusion this weekend in England. A doe burst onto the pitch, knocking over the one of the players in the middle of a match.

Have the abilities of deer been underestimated? In any case, reports journalist Gauthier Baudin on his X account, it seems that deer have some knowledge of tackling. As evidenced by this video shared this weekend on social networks.

Tackling without a ball

Aylesbury and Marlow were meeting in the Buckinghamshire derby in the London area, on the edge of a forest. When, as video evidence shows, a doe – or roe deer, the images are very blurry – burst onto the pitch at full speed.

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Likely frightened, the animal continued to run with its head down, before hitting one of the players from the Malrow team. The little animal managed to knock over this imposing obstacle and knocked him to the ground.

Serendipity

Luckily, the player was not injured. Unseen, unrecognized, the little deer continued to run towards the forest behind the lawn.

Internet users did not fail to comment on this rather comical scene: “It's just a deer-vical contact”, “we can't blame him for having tackled too high”, “tackle without the ball, that normally deserves a red card”…

An incident that, clearly, brings good luck. The Marlow team won the match at 29-27. The story does not say whether the doe was on her first attempt.