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FOOTBALL


Maidenhead United FC


Catering for the pitch!


Maidenhead United Football Club was established in 1870. Their York Road home ground is acknowledged by The Football Association and FIFA to be the oldest continuously used senior association football ground in the world by the same club, having been their home since 1871. This perhaps little known piece of history has seen the club awarded a blue plaque by the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead


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aidenhead United Football are currently members of the National League, the fifth tier of English football. At the time of writing, they were lying


uncomfortably just above the relegation zone. Their York Road stadium is floodlight and has a capacity of 4500 with 450 seats. On what has been a very wet winter so far, and on yet another very damp day, Lee Williams met up with twenty-seven-year-old Jason Stewart, the club’s Head Groundsman/ Catering Manager.


Working at the club has been a family affair, which began when Jason’s granddad Brian Stewart used to run the turnstiles years ago. Jason has been looking after the pitch at York Road since he was eighteen years


old, with help from his dad Mark Stewart who is a director at the club. Jason also took on the club’s matchday catering five years ago. Jason has no formal qualifications in groundsmanship, but he does his best to keep up with what is new in the industry through social media platforms, industry magazines and websites. “I would like to look at doing an NVQ or some form of certificate in the future to help improve my knowledge, but it is hard to find the time to fit it in. I’m very comfortable here, and I have great respect for the chairman so, as long as he his around and he’s happy with my work, I don’t plan on working anywhere else in the foreseeable future.”


Jason’s pitch maintenance budget is small, which is the case with many lower


I remember this time of the year being a lot colder and even getting some snow now and again. The summer months are getting hotter for longer, especially in the last two years. It’s been a real struggle to keep the pitch from burning off


46 PC April/May 2020





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