The Maltese national football team has been disbanded and repurposed as a group of scarecrows after Tuesday’s loss against the Faroe Islands.
Victory against the Atlantic archipelago with a population of 50,000 would have seen Malta win both a home and away qualifier against the same team for the first time in its footballing history.
But after a miserable 1-0 defeat in Tórshavn , Malta’s players will now spend the rest of their days shooing sparrows away from crops.
“There’s really no point in carrying on with the delusion that Malta will ever be not terrible at football,” said MFA chairman Bjorn Vassallo.
“After much internal discussion, we have decided to leave UEFA, withdraw from all future competitions and disband the team.
“Having said that, we don’t want the players to feel completely worthless. Se we decided to use their lack of movement on the pitch to their advantage and rent them out to farmers to use as scarecrows.”
The team made their debut as scarecrows yesterday, where they successfully defended a crop of potatoes in Rabat from attacking birds.
