Rescuers free fox found tangled in a football net

Sports clubs in the UK have been urged not to leave netting out overnight after a young fox got its entire body entangled in a football goal net.

The RSPCA cited the fox’s ordeal at a school in Cannock, Staffordshire, as a prime example of the dangers netting can pose to wildlife, including birds and hedgehogs.

RSPCA staff took the fox to the charity’s Stapeley Grange wildlife centre in Nantwich, Cheshire, to be safely released from the net and placed on a drip due to his weak condition.