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A FOOTBALL club in eastern France has had to move all of its home games to another venue until further notice – after wild boar tore up most of the pitch.
The groundsman at sixth-division AS Munster in Alsace had a nasty surprise when he turned up to work on Monday to find nearly two-thirds of the grass had been destroyed by the intruders overnight.
A pack of wild boar had managed to break into the grounds on Sunday night by digging a hole under the perimeter fence.
Club president Bertrand Gazet told local paper Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace that AS Munster had one of the best-kept pitches in the region, frequently used by teams in bigger leagues for training.
It will take at least a month to repair. Until then, the side's home matches will be played at another ground.
Quand les sangliers labourent le terrain de foot de #Munster #DNAinfos http://t.co/cv9Lf2ONvQ pic.twitter.com/SZMrlP7LaX— Nicolas Roquejeoffre (@roquejeoffre) August 17, 2015
