Even a flock of seagulls (not the band) couldn’t stop this goal.
Seagulls are not very good soccer defenders
Connor Pain ran so far away to score goal amid a flock of seagulls.


Melbourne Victory striker Connor Pain did a great job evading both the Wellington Phoenix defenders and a whole bunch of birds.
Luckily this wasn’t the beginning on a sequel to Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film.
The team had some fun with the incident on Twitter as well.
Hey @MCG, can we borrow your eagle? #MVCvWEL RT @tonyevans88: Do @gomvfc not own a bird scarer? Seagull pitch invasion!
— Melbourne Victory (@gomvfc) November 3, 2014 (h/t MLSSoccer.com)











