That pitch

[mammutly]

The pitch at Sunderland was a dangerous disgrace. Are there any standards set by the premier league? They should be fined for hosting a top flight game on a surface like that.

 

[flb]

i was saying to my lad exactly the same-bobblesville

 

[Mattyc55]

The pitch at Sunderland was a dangerous disgrace. Are there any standards set by the premier league? They should be fined for hosting a top flight game on a surface like that.

Clearly did it to strengthen their own game (Jones) and subsequently hinder ours. It backfired on them once he got injured and Roque came on, and with that we took advantage and arse-holed them for the second 45.

Disgraceful as it is, Tottenham went to Wigan the other week with Kranjcar, Defoe and Huddlestone et al all playing and managed to win 3-0, and by now, we SHOULD have the quality and strength in depth to overcome such things.

 

[CITYmad11]

that pitch was rubbish and you couldn't play on that even if it was a rugby pitch!!!!

 

[kippaxblue76]

Like a ploughed field, fucking disgrace this day and age.

 

[Anonymous]

you didn't see the king complaining when he was going on one of his runs ( not that i was alive to see it lol).

but yeah that pitch did stop us playing football.

 

[Rammyblues]

It had grass on it, and it was the same for both sides remember back in the 70s having to go to the baseball ground in winter just flattended mud. No excuses.

 

[poyntonblue]

Why are we blaming the pitch? These are proffesional footballers who should be able to adapt whatever the conditions. Yes it wasn't the best but come on.

Agree with the post about Spurs going to wigan, who do play rugby on it as well, managed to pass it well enough.

 

[the goats backside]

We didnt win because again away from home we were on back foot from the start, as soon as we learn to take the game to them we will win these games

 

[pskilla]

It wasn't great but they should still be able to play on it. A few of ours seemed to slip but they might have needed different studs.

 

[Jordie]

It was as bad as our national pitch was last week, an absolute disgrace.

 

[Wrighty Wrexham]

And the ball wasnt right either!!!

Apparently changed for the weekend re some charity do!

PMSL ;)

 

[Marco's Mole]

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[scall11]

As a part-time groundsman myself, I've got an idea of how hard it is to maintain a playing surface when battling the weather and heavy use of the pitch.

It has been a hard winter, with temperatures at a constant low meaning the grass isn't growing well at all.

The groundsmen at the SOL would have done everything they could to get the surface as good as possible yesterday, and they would have been gutted to see it perform the way it did.

But as people have said, the pitches we have nowadays are probably the best we've ever had, and it's not stopped players in the past.

EDIT:
Bit of information about the pitch if you really want to read it:
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[Marco's Mole]

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[u2fme2]

The pitch at Sunderland was a dangerous disgrace. Are there any standards set by the premier league? They should be fined for hosting a top flight game on a surface like that.

how quick we forget the shit we always used to play on