Artificial Surfaces
“It is interesting to note that anything other than sporting activity, such as big concerts, has left artificial pitches either damaged or destroyed and in need of expensive replacement or repairs”
one area? Clubs are then likely to lose their identities as the best and biggest stadium/club in the region will monopolise all use.
Clubs talk about having all these events, but the fact is there are not that many events that are big enough to be held in stadia in one area. It is interesting to note that anything other than sporting activity, such as big concerts, has left artificial pitches either damaged or destroyed and in need of expensive replacement or repairs. Stadiums are supposed to be elitist to a certain extent. That is what gives them their atmosphere. The fact you only get to play there professionally, or on special corporate occasions, not twenty-four
hours a day. Its most kids dream to one day run out at Wembley onto the hallowed turf and take in the roar. If, in ten years, every man and his dog have been on there, because it is plastic, it won’t exactly have the same appeal will it?
But, not to worry all that money we are going to make can go towards the medical costs of looking after ourselves in old age when we are suffering from respiratory diseases related to pollution, and joint problems related to impact. Who needs the natural environment when it can be made artificially? Let’s replace all trees with artificial ones so we don’t have to pick up leaves every autumn. Why not a robot football team,
then the players would never get injured and you wouldn’t have to pay out ridiculous salaries. The fact remains that, in general, football clubs are incapable, on a huge scale, of managing their finances, and a fake playing surface is not going to change that incompetence. What it will change is the way the game is played, but it seems no one cares so ... why go to the hardship of living at all when a microchip can do the same job for you ... subscribe to the artificial ethos ... life is short, fake it!
Matt Frost has worked at some of the leading stadia in the UK and abroad, both as a groundsman and a consultant. His current project involves growing in and maintaining natural turf pitches in extreme temperatures in Eastern Europe.
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