Liverpool FC: Anfield Redevelopment Could Hit Snag over Bats

As Liverpool Football Club prepare to submit plans to to the Liverpool City Council for the redevelopment of Anfield, a potential problem is looming on the horizon.

Bats.

That's right, bats. The furry, winged, flying mammals that use echolocation to creep out just about everybody not named Bruce Wayne. The problem, you see, is that bats are suspected to roost around Anfield—and that they're protected by domestic and international law.

The Daily Mirror reports:

That would seem to rule in favour of the presence of bats. So the question is now what's more important—a 60,000-seat Anfield, or the well-being of bats?

The Mirror quotes one Mr. Charlie Liggett, chairman of the Merseyside and West Lancashire Bat Group, as saying: "There is a perception that bats are nothing, but the trouble (is that) it’s not the case. But building something where bats are is not insurmountable."

There you have it, then. Bats: Not nothing. Denizens of the Kop, kindly take note.