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City star earns his stripes


THERE’S been a bit of debate about it on the Pitchcare website but Lee Jackson, deputy head groundsman at the City of Manchester Stadium, has made headline News in the Manchester Evening News Apparently Lee has become a household name in the North West, thanks to his artistic trimming of the hallowed turf at the Stadium.


Lee said “The patterns started after manager Kevin Keegan left. He wanted to stick with traditional cuts, so I did, but present manager Stuart Pearce hasn’t mentioned it. To date we’ve had eight games at home and won all but one, so if it was affecting play I’d have been asked to change it by now. “I’m sure the manager would


have said something if he was unhappy and so would the players. I used to do the odd one at Maine Road, but the first proper design I did was for the England game against Iceland at Eastlands last summer. I was amazed when the patterns began to be mentioned on TV.” Whatever your view, well done to Lee and the team for raising


the profile of the industry. The article prompted a number of positive comments not least from Jay at Old Trafford who said “It’s nice when Groundsmen get the praise they deserve. Well done to the City Groundstaff. Wouldn’t be able to do this on a synthetic surface!? Keep pitches natural grass and support your Groundsmen - they work very hard and are extremely professional.”


What’s in a name?


WILLIAM Stroker Esq. is an agricultural judge in Ireland. It’s a pity that his parents didn’t judge their actions before heading off to register his birth. Ah well, it’s been going on since time


immemorial. Only recently Drew Peacock entered this world. But perhaps the best


is Francesca Wiper. Confused? Well just ask yourself what Francesca often gets shortened to!


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This is a great picture - digitally enhanced we hope. It’s been doing the email rounds as ‘the last picture of my cat’. Sad as we are, we thought less about the poor cat and more about which team those socks belong to? Someone out there will know. Put us all out of our misery and let us know - PLEASE!


A RARE Mediterranean fish has somehow ended up on the green of the fifth hole of Royal Portrush golf course. The fish, weighing 1½lb and about 12in long, with silver scales, an orange patch on its belly and unusual fins, was identified by the Fishery Conservancy Board for Northern Ireland as a Mediterranean Trigger fish. The unusual visitor was found by greenkeeper Trevor Stewart when he went to sweep the green last Thursday morning. He said: “There was no smell and it certainly had not been floating about in the sea for long. There was no damage, other that a small cut to one side.”


The course’s fifth green sits high above the beach near


It’s been a tough month this week! •


Richard and his staff had very little devoting to do after matches •


During my visit to Yorkshire I was able to meet up with two ofthe most influential Groundsmen in Barnoldswick Town


the rocks. Occasionally bits of fish are found on the course, but a whole fish in good condition is very unusual. The name trigger comes


from the prominent dorsal fin above the eye, which is shaped like a spine.


Any similarity between the trigger fish and our editor is purely coincidental.


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