FOOTBALL
Putting down fertiliser
Overseeding in early June
League Trophy tie in September 2011 tops, with a Liverpool-Middlesbrough League Cup tie in 2014, the number of consecutive successful penalties in professional football worldwide. Oh, and in October 2001, Tony Roberts was the first goalkeeper to score a goal from open play in the history of the FA Cup.
Quite a lot has happened in the club’s short history and you sense it might just be on the rise again. Jamie Honeyman’s important task of
keeping the Chigwell Construction Stadium playing surface in top condition and fit for the higher echelons is by and large a solo effort, though he does have a trainee assistant for a couple of days a week to help with main pitch duties. As much as anything it’s his daily travelling routine that is so admirable. It reads: drive from his home in Upchurch in Kent to Rainham station; catch a train - often as early as 5.15am - to Stratford International, then the DLR service to West Ham for a District Line train to Dagenham East, a 10-minute walk away from the ground. If all goes well it’s about a 90-minute trip, and he has to do it all again in reverse each night to get home.
He loves what he does, and accepts that the travelling is a part of it. His plan, along with his fiancée, is to move nearer to London, to cut the time and cost of daily travelling.
Close season renovation work on the stadium pitch, carried out by contractor Steve Tingley, began in late May with scarification, followed in early June by topdressing and levelling, and then drill seeding. A year ago, the surface was Koro’d, and Jamie says that it is an exercise that he will likely call upon every other summer. The perennial ryegrass mix has taken well, and uniformly, though Jamie has used germination sheets for top-up seeding of the goalmouths. Cover here seems to be coming on well, too. Repeat cutting at 32mm, using his Dennis G860, has produced a very impressive mid-
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