You CANNOT be serious! The not so serious side of the industry
We’ll start ...
AT the beginning obviously. Many of you will know - and love - our website editor Laurence Gale. He does a stirling job putting together all the fascinating articles that appear on the site and now in hard copy format.
But he does likes to keep
our proof reader busy with odd grammatical errors that have lovingly become known as ‘Laurencisms’. He’s our very own David Coleman if you will. Here are a couple of crackers that didn’t slip through the net.
“British Seed Houses invited a number of guests to have launch with Billy Beaumont the former England Rugby Union Captain, who provided some very interesting antidotes on his former playing days.”
“He, if no one, knows the
Old Trafford Square better than anyone.”
Extracting the urine? Read all about it!
IT’S hard to believe but some turfcare professionals have actually had praise heaped on them via the media.
“The FA have been delighted with the playing surface here which is credit to our head groundsman Steve Speed and his assistant Dean Johnson.” Port Vale Secretary, Bill Lodey
“And special mention goes to greenkeeper Brian Starkey (Newsome Working Mens Club) who put in many hours to provide a tricky but splendid green in superb condition from which the home team players could achieve the magnificent 252 total.”
Huddersfield Daily Examiner
“The wonderful bonus we have here at Oakham is our award winning groundsman Keith Exton. It’s fantastic to meet county and
international players who enthuse about coming here to play cricket. It’s second to few in the country and those few are Test venues." Oakham School Deputy Headteacher
The Lloyds TSB Scottish National Cricket League was almost entirely swept away by Friday night’s deluge. The one game that did go ahead was at Myreside, where Willie Morton’s experience and hard work as the Watsonians groundsman drew warm praise from the home team.
The whole truth ...
“The hardest part of the job is just being courteous to the golfers. We take care of the course. They mess it up. They pay to do that. We don’t really mind it because that’s what we get paid to do.”
Dennis Leischner Jr., Head Greenkeeper, Bulle Rock, Maryland. Bureaucracy!
OKAY, so we all know the Aussies are good - perhaps not at Twenty20 - but in every other format of the game they are world champs. But surely this is taking global
domination of the game a bit too far!
This is believed to be the first time in cricket history such a field has been employed in an international one day match. Zimbabwe, for that is they in
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the red, were faced with NINE slips! I suppose technically it was five slips, two gullies and two points.
Nevertheless it worked... Zim were all out for 116 runs in the second One Day International at the Harare Sports Club on 23 October 1999.
For the record the bowler was Damien Flemming and the batsman David Mutandera.
AN HISTORIC cricket club has been told to take down its scoreboard as it is not in keeping with planning regulations. Greenkeepers at The Grange Club in Edinburgh had propped up the score board on industrial containers so spectators could see it.
But council planners have ordered them to take it down as the Inverleith Park ground is in the midst of a
conservation area.
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