Ed Woodgates, who is Gilbert the Gull, is worried about being targeted on the pitch.

He is the mascot at Torquay near Paignton, Devon, where Gizma the chihuahua was snatched by a gull.

Ed said: “I will probably get some chants because of that, knowing what football fans are like.

“Some away fans do give it large. But we always have young children as individual match mascots in club kit and if I take them round I find fans tend to tone it down and avoid bad language, so hopefully that will work.”

Other seaside targets could be Fleetwood’s Captain Cod and Southend’s Sammy the Shrimp .

Source: Read Full Article