Play had to be stopped for 20 minutes during a football match in North Yorkshire after an alpaca ran onto the pitch.

Footage of the elusive Oscar has gone viral after he galloped into the game between Carlton Athletic and Ilkley Town on Saturday from a nearby farm.

The alpaca appeared five minutes before half-time and evaded attempts to usher it off the pitch for so long players were left feeling cold by the time play restarted.

“This week he’d had enough after a shocking first half by the referee and decided he was having none of it and vaulted the fence.”

The video of Oscar was filmed by Claire Armstrong, Ilkley’s Covid officer and wife to the first-team coach, on her phone.

“Claire was on a call with someone and said ‘I’m so sorry, I’ve got to put the phone down, there’s an alpaca on the pitch,'” added Mr Giles.