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FOOTBALL


Assistant Head of Estates Matt Arnold


Any trees I plant now will be here for future generations to come and will be our legacy – which is an exciting concept


for planting schemes. I was given free rein, aside from one remit (and you could say a heads-up), that the Chairman’s wife liked white. So, we worked with a pastel colour palette and it turned out spectacular.” “Having that experience put me in good stead when returning to St. George’s Park at the beginning of this year. It struck me that, everywhere was lovely and green, but there was very little colour, structure or areas of interest … so that is my current project. It’s going to take time, but I want to give the site a ‘wow’ factor.”


I deduce that the strong passion within Matt must have started from a young age. “My dad was a head gardener all of his life and my mum was also green fingered at home. As a result, I was dragged around as a child every weekend, looking at different gardens and estates - which, obviously, at the time I hated! When I left school, I worked in the construction industry for a while before realising that all those hours spent looking at flowers was something that now really interested me. I enrolled at Rodbaston College and, as part of that, I secured a work placement at a private school. Over the next three years, I achieved my First Diploma and National Diploma in Horticulture.” “From there, I joined Sudbury prison as a Horticulture Instructor and my boss (Steve Benson) was the best I have ever had. I learned a lot from him about how to manage a team; he led from the front and encouraged the team around him. He was very hands-on and would never shy away from getting stuck in, but at the same time, you knew he was an authoritative


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PC August/September 2020





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