Winter Sports
L-r: Oliver Brown, Kiel Barrett, Jonathan Gardiner and Chris Drury
their allocated seats above the players’ tunnel. These are possibly the best seats in the stadium. Kiel and his staff are responsible for rolling the tunnel in and out before, during and after the game. As always, the Leeds fans are quite vocal, adding to the matchday atmosphere, especially when the home team took the lead in the thirty-sixth minute, a lead they maintained up to half time.
Once the half time whistle had blown, and the players had left the pitch, the groundstaff were back out repairing divots and scars. I even grabbed a fork to help out.
Half time seemed to go really quickly and we were soon back in our seats to watch the second half. Unfortunately, for
Home time
Leeds, it was not one of their better performances as, within five minutes of the restart, Charlton had equalised. The scoreline remained that way until the final whistle, leaving the home fans disappointed that two points had been dropped in their quest for promotion. In truth, Leeds had not played well in the second half and Charlton deserved the draw. As for Kiel, he was happy that the pitch had come through unscathed, with very few divots and damage. With the game over, the groundstaff went out on the pitch to remove advertising logos and take down the goal nets. They spent the best part of an hour putting the worst of the divots back and cleaning up with rotary mowers. It was now gone 11.00pm and, with the
traffic having died down, I began my journey home. But, for Kiel and his team it was just another home fixture completed successfully, with their thoughts, no doubt, on the next day’s workload.
Chris and Jonathan would be back at the training ground, whilst Kiel and Oliver would spend the rest of the week getting the pitch ready for the next game against Birmingham.
It was good to spend time with Kiel, and meet the rest of the team working hard to ensure that the Leeds players have good surfaces to train and play on to help them achieve their goal of returning to the top flight.
C-Range MACHINES FOR ALL SPORTS SURFACES
• Allett C-Range mowing and turf maintenance system.
• Uses quickly-
interchangeable cartridge heads, purpose-designed for each turf
maintenance task.
• Available in working widths of 510mm (20in), 610mm (24in) and 864mm (34in) to suit turf surfaces from bowling greens and croquet lawns to cricket squares and football stadiums.
• Cartridge heads available for mowing, scarifying, verti-cutting, slitting, sorrel rolling and brushing.
Demonstrations with pleasure on a turf surface near you
Allett Mowers, Hangar 5, New Road, Hixon, Staffordshire ST18 0PJ, UK Tel: 01889 271503 •
sales@allett.co.uk •
www.allett.co.uk NB: 8-blade cutting unit for C-34 not shown 6-blade cylinder 10-blade cylinder 10-blade with groomer Brush Scarifier Slitter Sorrell Roller Verticutter DECEMBER/JANUARY 2013 PC 61
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