Winter Sports GR SSCUTTER
Our anonymous groundsman, Mr AKA Grasscutter, believes there have been some strange decisions taken by football’s hierarchy
Oxymorons, or just morons?
prefer training on natural turf, which says it all for me.
The Wembley pitch is a complex issue and will always struggle with what is right for the grass over what is right for income sense is required when arranging these allow the England team to ‘play away’ at A conundrum, indeed.
Sorry to come over a bit Terry Wogan but, is it me, or has football gone a bit mad recently?
Firstly, the Football League narrowly avoided allowing 3G pitches following a split vote by the club chairmen. Then the powers that be at Wembley decided it would be a good idea to play two NFL games on the pitch, just days before an England Euro 2016 qualifying match - in late autumn and with obvious consequences; I thought that Dave
very balanced, by the way. Finally, FIFA’s independent ethics adjudicator - an oxymoron if there ever was one - found no the 2022 World Cup to Qatar. Now, there’s a surprise!
So, where to start with my bi-monthly home.
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Talks of corruption and backhanders abound, yet
nothing seems to change
I’ve no idea how my chairman voted; I we do here, so I hope it was a ‘no’. Had the vote been an acceptance, I guess there would have been no rush to rip up what surfaces across the lower leagues to install 3G. Yes, there are budgetary issues each year, but we have always, just about, got Either way, I doubt that my club could have understand that grants would have been made available, and I wonder where they would have come from - the suppliers/
Don’t get me wrong, 3G has its place, but it is not in my stadium, as far as I am
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And now for FIFA ... football already runs rough shod over most other sports and FIFA epitomise, in my view, everything that when Qatar were awarded the World Cup because they are hardly a great football just over two million, which is roughly the same as Macedonia, Slovenia and
The World Cup has always been played in late June and through July, when temperature in Qatar reach a staggering 45O
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it was always going to be impossible to although that has since been revised to May. Even then temperature will be mid to leagues.
the tournament, how long will it be to grow and maintain grass in such high temperatures and suggest that 3G will Women’s World Cup in Canada in 2015 with FIFA’s blessing, if not the players.
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