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Artificial Surfaces
“Installing an artificial pitch will,
most certainly, change the game
to a poorer, non contact version
according to many of the world’s
leading coaches. It will allow
every man and his dog to use
the stadium pitch”
i.e. it can be a leisure centre - that will
not allow the club to progress to a higher
level, as all clubs will have this
‘advantage’. So, how to progress over
another? Or, allow clubs to play in arctic
conditions when roads are closed, or
allow clubs to use the stadium 24/7, as
lighting restrictions are in place in most
areas of the UK?
The demand is not there; only in a
rose tinted marketing view. Neither will it
allow clubs income to increase to such an
extent that they move up a league or
increase their fan base.
Installing an artificial pitch will, most
certainly, change the game to a poorer,
non contact version according to many of
the world’s leading coaches. It will allow
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every man and his dog to use the
stadium pitch thereby, most certainly,
eliminating an elitist feel.
It will also see the need to pay for
security, demountable fencing and
specialist maintenance. The carpet will
need replacement - if they are going to
use it 24/7 - at least once every three or
four years if it is going to meet the strict
FIFA testing requirements that are in
place, and at a cost that will almost
certainly negate the previous period’s
financial gain!
So, the governing bodies have a
choice. They can do the right thing,
which is to invest and encourage
development in both natural and
artificial playing surfaces, both of which
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have a purpose in the game. The
premise being that artificial is there as a
spare parachute, which can be applied
where nature truly does not want grass to
succeed, which are not very many places
at all, and certainly not the UK where it
is temperate. Or they can go exactly the
route they are taking now, and that is to
remove the soul of all stadiums and
change the game to a non-contact sport.
Of course, a few individuals will get rich,
but so could a lot of people by doing the
wrong thing, and where would that leave
us? In a recession perhaps?!!!
Changing stadia into leisure centres
seems to be every chairman’s ambition
and, if 150 games can be played in one
stadium, why have several stadiums in
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