And finally… ‘Messi’ pigeon makes £1m transfer
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The Lionel Messi of the pigeon world has been sold for a record fee of more than £1 million.
Joel Verschoot’s bird Armando was sold by auction house Pipa for €1,252,000 (£1.07 million) after a two-week online bidding war.
Nikolaas Gyselbrecht, chief executive of Pipa, said: “This pigeon has a race record that has never been matched by any other pigeon.
“In football terms you have Messi and Ronaldo – it’s that level.”
The figure made Armando the most valuable bird ever sold in an online auction, according to Pipa, dwarfing the previous record of € 376,000 (£322,000), which was set in November.
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