Winter Sports - Football
One thing that I’d forgotten was the amount of people who are around on a televised match day - all of whom appear to be given a special task to stop, or get in the way of the groundstaff at every opportunity
The pitch ready for the arrival of Manchester United - much praised by TV pundits
between the Navy and the Army. The match ball was delivered via helicopter, landing on the centre circle, before the match kicked off.
We repaired the pitch afterwards and
watered again on Thursday and Friday. On Tuesday 22nd, we aerated the pitch again, getting the tines down nine inches. We picked up debris with the rotary mowers on the Wednesday and then got the pitch presentation back in place on the Thursday
and Friday morning, before a mark out ready for the Good Friday game against Port Vale at 3.00pm. The team gained another point and extended their unbeaten run to nine games. Storm Katie arrived the following Monday,
wreaking yet more havoc and bringing the inevitable rainfall. We left the pitch until the Tuesday to finish any repairs and put the Honda rotaries over it. On the Wednesday, we aerated the pitch in the morning, again
getting as deep as we could with the 19mm tines, and then sprayed the pitch with 50kg soluble fertiliser 12:0:39 Sol Control, 10 litres of SeaAction Seaweed and 10 litres of Bullet chelated iron in the afternoon. Friday 1st April was no joke as more rain
descended and continued through into Saturday morning, not relenting until an hour and a half before kick-off. The visitors were the League’s in-form side, Wigan Athletic, and they comfortably saw our lads
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