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Winter Sports Pitches Carl Pass
Prepare rather than repair...
With Premier and Football League groundsmen expected to provide a surface for much more than ninety minutes of football each week, Carl Pass, Managing Director of Premier Pitches Ltd., reckons the best way to achieve this is to provide a new pitch each year
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rofessional football pitch management is no longer about providing a surface which will withstand the rigours of ninety minutes of football, as any League
groundsman will testify. Groundsmen now have the additional
pressure of providing a surface that will be used for a pre-match warm-up which can last up to thirty minutes. There are also half time activities, including penalty shootouts, marching bands, dancers and junior matches played across the pitch. In addition, many teams now insist on a warm-down after the match which, in some cases, becomes a full- blown training session for squad players not involved in the ninety minutes of action which has just taken place out on the pitch. Success in European competitions brings
additional burdens as travelling teams have access to the match pitch for training sessions on the day prior to the tie being played. Other events, such as music concerts, bring in much needed revenue to clubs who are in the business of making money by what ever means to support their main objective, which is to be successful on the pitch. All these activities are undertaken often in
grounds which have either evolved into multi-use venues or, worse still, have been designed with little or no thought to the well being of the pitch. The consequence of such relentless use is a degenerated surface which may suffer from compaction, poor drainage, little or no grass cover and uneven levels. So, where does this leave the person
entrusted with producing a surface which will cater for all the needs of a professional
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