Winter Sports
GETTING Personal...
Kristinn V. Jóhannsson - check out Sigur Rós on YouTube - he may be right!
Who are you? Father,
boyfriend, brother, friend, son, and a groundsman.
Family status? Girlfriend Una Þorgilsdóttir and my two children, Arna Lind Kristinsdóttir and Jóhann Friðrik
Kristinsson.
Who’s your hero and why? Michael Jordan
- simply the best. My parents too.
What is your dream holiday? New York and Tenerife and, some day, I would like to go to Egypt and Venice.
What annoys you the most? Rude and dishonest people, bad drivers and being late.
Who wouldn’t you like to be? Jack Bauer’s enemy!
Favourite record, and why? Ágætis byrjun, Takk and Með Suð í Eyrum við Spilum endalaust by Sigur Rós. The best band in the world. [We’ll have to take his word for that. Ed.]
Who would you choose to spend a romantic evening with? Besides Una, I would say Anna Scott in Notting Hill.
If you won the lottery, what is the first thing you would do? Take Una to this little restaurant in Tenerife.
If you were to describe yourself as a musical instrument, what would you be and why? A piano, but I don’t know why.
What’s the best advice you have ever been given? My parents taught me so much, so I can’t pick one specific thing.
What’s your favourite smell? Newly cut grass.
What do you do in your spare time? Spend time with the family and friends, try to play golf and camping.
What’s the daftest work related question you have ever been asked? This one, I think!
What’s your favourite piece of kit? At the moment my iPad and my new retro phonograph.
What three words would you use to describe yourself? Honest, organised and happy.
What talent would you like to have? To be able to fly.
72 PC JUNE/JULY 2013 One day before the 2008 cup final
of hours in to keep the pitch in perfect condition.” “As well as the men’s and women’s national teams, we have Premier League team Fram playing here, although they don’t train on the pitch. Any training on the stadium pitch is usually around the national games. We also accommodate up to nine athletics tournaments in the summer.” “I’m not blessed with a huge amount of equipment. We’ve two Dennis G560s, two little Honda rotaries, one marker and a fertiliser spreader. We use a Dennis G560 to cut the pitch and the little Hondas to cut the edges and the grass around the stadium. We cut the pitch around seventy times a season, which is from the end of April to the beginning of October. We fertilise a little and often.” “Any other machinery we need, such
as spikers for aeration, tractors and sprayers, I am able to get from the two golf courses nearby, where the head greenkeepers, Ágúst Jenson at Reykjavík Golf Club and Bjarni Hannesson at Keilir Golf Club, also act as my consultants, helping me with
stuff like fertilising and disease diagnosis. They have helped me a lot with the pitch over the years and I am very grateful for that. Our budget is very tight, so this cooperation from the golf courses is very important.” “Over the summer we spike the pitch six or seven times and fertilise it around ten times. We sand topdress once a year and maybe spray once a year also. Overseeding is done in the summer to take advantage of the ‘warmer’ temperatures.” “Perhaps the biggest change since I became head groundsman is that, with our own mowers, we now cut the pitch ourselves. Prior to that, mowing was undertaken by the golf greenkeepers! These mowers have made a significant difference to how we manage the facility.”
“Because this is an old pitch, there’s lots of different types of grass in it. Here in Iceland, we get a few diseases, such as fusarium, red thread, anthracnose, snow mould and fairy rings. Depending on the disease type, we control them by watering, spiking, fertilising and/or spraying with liquid products. We keep an eye on them
Games
Trainings Athletics
Cutting - Dennis Cutting - Honda Marking out Watering
Watering before games Brushing the pitch Fertilising Spiking
Topdressing Overseeding Spraying
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April May June July Aug Sep Oct All 4
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4 2 4
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3 2 2 1
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3 4 6 2 23 3 7 4 16 9
8 11 15 17 21 5 1 78 4 1 5
6 11 7 3 3 4 1
1 1 1
3 3 3 1 19 28 9
1 7 6 2 22 1 2 1 1 1
9
1 4 1 1
1 1
This is the data that I collected throughout 2012. I don’t have any data for rainfall, surface, soil cores, nutrient status, hardness, sward cover, thatch, ball bounce, soil pH etc., but I do keep data for soil temperatures. I keep a close eye on the thatch (if it’s present), hardness and soil cores and, of course, the weather forecast!
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