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This man thinks that groundsmen earn £500 a week. Well they might do at Wembley ... just!


FRASER WISHART, the secretary of the Scottish Professional Footballers’ Association, talking about new FIFA regulations coming into force in Scotland, which will prevent unemployed players from playing as trialists, “The great thing about football contracts is that they are protected and you have rights to adjudication by the SPL and SFA. But if players are signing contracts for getting paid for something else other than playing football any disputes cannot


be adjudicated upon by the football authorities,” he said. “An example would be a player who earned £500 a week as a groundsman, but £1 a week as a player. If you get the bullet from your ‘other job’ the club still holds your registration as a player. Our concerns are that this will lead to players’ rights being diluted.”


Fraser Wishart is a former player with Motherwell and Rangers. Photo included just so you can recognise Fraser if you see him ... and have a quiet word!


Plymouth’s sound


PLYMOUTH Argyle Head Groundsman, Colin Wheatcroft, had a visitor for 3 weeks during June. It was Abdul Malik Mohammed, the groundsman at Sekondi- Takoradi, Ghana, one of four venues staging matches in the 2008 African Nations Cup. Malik’s visit came as a result of the Plymouth-Ghana Link with the twin cities of Sekondi and Takoradi, and he was here to study Colin’s working methods. “I asked him how he painted his white lines,” said Colin. “Apparently, they use lime, which we are not allowed to use because of the chemicals.” “I also asked him how he put his white lines down, I showed him my spray marker which works on a battery. Malik


told me they paint the lines with a brush, but sometimes they use their hands. And, to cut the grass, they use a push mower. They have got absolutely no machinery at all, no grass seed, no fertiliser, no weedkiller, or anything like that. Malik has never seen anything like our modern ground.”


And you think you have problems...


Promotional photograph of the model of the new stadium for Sekoni-T


Takoradi. We


particularly like the reflections of the chairs in the glass top!


Forward THINKING AUGUST


3rd to 8th 2nd Test England v Australia Edgbaston


(www.cricketworld.com)


DATES FOR YOUR DIARY JULY


10th to 15th International Turfgrass Research Conference, Llandudno


(www.aber.ac.uk/itrc2005)


14th to 17th The Open - St. Andrews (www.opengolf.com)


21st to 25th 1st Test England v Australia - Lord’s (www.cricketworld.com)


28th to 31st The Women’s Open Royal Birkdale


(www.lgu.org/championships/ weetabix_open_2005)


11th to 15th 3rd Test England v Australia Old Trafford


(www.cricketworld.com)


25th to 29th 4th Test England v Australia Trent Bridge


(www.cricketworld.com) SEPTEMBER


6th to 8th IOG SALTEX - Windsor (www.iogsaltex.co.uk)


8th to 12th 5th Test England v Australia The Oval


(www.cricketworld.com)


9th to 11th The Solheim Cup Crooked Stick GC Indianapolis, Indiana (www.solheimcup.com)


18th to 20th GLEE, NEC Birmingham (www.gleebirmingham.com)


OCTOBER


14th to 16th Expo 2005 Louisville, Kentucky, USA (www.landsconference.com)


NOVEMBER


2nd to 5th Green Industry Expo (GIE), Orlando, Florida (www.gieonline.com)


9th 'Putting science into practice in your grounds and parklands' STRI, Bingley


(www.stri.co.uk/training)


9th to 10th IOG Scotsturf Edinburgh, Scotland (www.scotsturf.com)


12th to 16th EIMA 2005, Bologna, Italy (www.eima.it)


14th to 18th - 'Putting science into practice on your golf course'


STRI, Bingley (www.stri.co.uk/training)


21st to 25th 'Putting science into practice on your sports grounds' STRI, Bingley


(www.stri.co.uk/training)


30th to 1st Dec GCSAI Sportsturf Ireland, Dublin, Ireland


(www.gcsai.org/tradeshow) DECEMBER


5th to 8th NTF Conference - Blackpool (more details on pitchcare.com)


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