We need to start a petition to get our groundsman to relay our bloody pitch during this international break!!! It seems to give an uneven bounce and looks patchy in places. Its becoming detrimental to us because we want to play silky football under Vieira. We are getting a lot of plaudits for the way we we played Everton off the park the other day, so imagine what the scoreline could have been with a decent pitch. This is definitely the worst it has looked for a long time.

Could use Nematodes

I have worked maintaining golf courses all my life so the pitch is one of the first things I observe and I too could see how much it had deteriorated since the Burnley match. I don’t know for sure but the first thing I thought was that there was leatherjacket damage, it’s the eggs that hatch from crane flies. The grubs eat the roots causing bare and damaged turf. The insecticide that used to control this got discontinued about 3 years ago and football pitches weren’t granted a licence for the new insecticide that was brought onto the market which isn’t as good as the older product anyway. Madness in my eyes that with all the money in football the pitches are in danger of going back to the old days. I feel so much for the groundsmen but it isn’t there fault. I could go on and bore you further but just my thoughts.