Winter Sports - Football


Peterborough United


The Posh boy! R


Rob Bradshaw is ‘living the dream’ working for Peterborough United - the team he has supported since a boy - at their Mick George Training Academy. He is a highly committed individual and, in this article, he explains how he got into the industry and what drives him to do the very best he can, and that includes supporting grassroots groundsmen


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ob Bradshaw has been in the industry since he was eighteen years old and, in that time, has amassed various qualifications including City and Guilds NVQ2 in


sports turf, industry courses, including football and artificial surfaces, plus teacher training, which allows him to teach educational programmes. He now works with local colleges to educate children with learning difficulties, giving them an insight into our industry via a work experience programme.


He began his career working for


Huntingdonshire District Council where he maintained twenty-four football pitches. In 2010, his passion and enthusiasm was recognised when he transferred to One Leisure, a fifty-two acre multi sports site in St


Ives, as head groundsman. For close on four years, he was also a match day groundsman at Wembley. He cites his mentor as being Ian Darler, Stadium Manager and Head Groundsman at Cambridge United. “I learned an awful lot from him,” he says. Now, as head groundsman at


Peterborough United’s Mick George Training Academy, thirty-four year old Rob continues to display an extraordinary thirst for knowledge and a fervour for continual improvement in everything he does. In his spare time, he will visit other


football clubs locally to give advice to grassroots groundsmen, such is his passion for the industry. “The industry must realise that there are large swathes of volunteers at grassroots level and their hard work goes generally unrecognised. I really like to


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