The Etihad Pitch

bellbuzzer said:
for years and years the FA were content to let clubs produce disgraceful playing surfaces. Derby had the worst, Ipswich the best. Arse had the smallest, City biggest, until Allison had it narrowed. We fans just shrugged, believing the mud-heaps were as good as possible. When city played Middlesbury in a cup replay the pitch was almost a lake, even though it had'nt rained for five days. Nowadays, the pitches are f'kin brilliant in comparison.
Some genius at the FA decided that having the Horse of the year Show on the Wembley pitch was fine 3 days before the cup final....Amazingly (NOT) nobody was sacked.
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Didn't Joe Mercer say they put down green sawdust !
 
David El Mago Silva said:
The new pitch was completed a few days ago by the looks of things.

@cityreport on Twitter posted a picture of it on July 8 if anyone wants to post it on here. I can't do it as I'm not on there.

Looks brilliant though, Lee Jackson has done a fine job.
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bellbuzzer said:
for years and years the FA were content to let clubs produce disgraceful playing surfaces. Derby had the worst, Ipswich the best. Arse had the smallest, City biggest, until Allison had it narrowed. We fans just shrugged, believing the mud-heaps were as good as possible. When city played Middlesbury in a cup replay the pitch was almost a lake, even though it had'nt rained for five days. Nowadays, the pitches are f'kin brilliant in comparison.
Some genius at the FA decided that having the Horse of the year Show on the Wembley pitch was fine 3 days before the cup final....Amazingly (NOT) nobody was sacked.
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There was bugger all that the FA could do about the Horse of the Year show, apart from moving the final away form Wembley.

Until fairly recently Wembley was owned by a commercial company that could do exactly what it wanted with the stadium. That included refusing to move a greyhound race meeting to permit all matches in the Southern Group in the 1966 World Cup to be held at Wembley.

It also included the Horse of the Year show fiasco.
 
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