Magazine - Football (Page 33)

Hectic summer at the City of Manchester Stadium
12 Sep 2005 - Football - Lee Jackson - 5 comments
Since the end of the ‘concert season’ in July, getting the pitch to its present level has been something of a challenge to us all here at City to say the least! Five concerts, almost 300,000 people through the turnstiles, around 130,000 of whom were on the pitch-marvellous! The fact that our staff end of season party was held in mid-July said it all about the clubs ongoing ability to hold high profile events all year round.

Renovations at the Madejski Stadium
4 Sep 2005 - Football - Bruce Elliott - Issue 2 - Aug / Sep 2005
At Reading Football Club we play host to 1st team, reserves and Premiership rugby union. In all we had 50 professional fixtures last season, including 6 “double headers” with football and rugby on the same weekend.

Anglo/Dutch partnership secures 2006 World Cup contract
31 Aug 2005 - Football - John Geddes
UK based turf company S F Hodgkinson & Son Ltd is delighted to announce that their Dutch partners, Hendriks Graszoden Groep have been awarded the contract to supply and install pitches for 7 stadiums which will host matches during next year’s World Cup Finals in Germany

Testing Times at Tividale
31 Aug 2005 - Football - Chris Charles - 12 comments
Well, my first league game of the season came and went on Saturday 20th August, with the home side winning 2-1. Although, there were four friendlies prior to this, plus a training session under the previous manager that I wasn’t told about until I had just spent three hours working on the pitch.

Improving pitch playability.
17 Aug 2005 - Football - Laurence Gale MSc - 5 comments
As a turf grass consultant, and editor for Pitchcare I see many examples of poor quality pitches. In the main, this is caused by the lack of regular appropriate pitch maintenance, poor construction or lack of adequate primary or secondary drainage.

Kirkland up to Old Tricks
15 Aug 2005 - Football - Editor - 1 comment
Day one of the Premier League and old habits die hard, particularly as far as goalkeepers are concerned. At the City of Manchester Stadium visiting West Bromwich Albion 'keeper, Chris Kirkland, was eager to get his studs in to the fresh turf and blatantly scraped lines on the six yard box and penalty area.

Re-turfing decisions at Juventus
9 Aug 2005 - Football - Alex Richter - Issue 2 - Aug / Sep 2005 - 7 comments
When the management team from Juventus FC came to our Richter Rasen turf farm in Austria, they were interested to look at our sports turf products and management practices. During the discussions, we talked to them about soil substrates, turf species, dimensions of turf-more inside

The Osprey has landed
29 Jul 2005 - Football - Dan Duffy - 3 comments
The follow up article from Dan Duffy at the New Stadium, Swansea. There is always a bit of a worry leading up to the first game on a new surface. Dan talks about the build-up and the performance of his 14 week old pitch.

Irrigation problems at Tividale
18 Jul 2005 - Football - Chris Charles - 6 comments
Yet again, here we are in the middle of a long dry spell that hopefully will come to an end very soon. I suspect that a lot of people reading this will feel the same, especially if you have inadequate irrigation at your disposal as I do. I would even suggest that there are some out there who have none whatsoever. I am the only one at my club who is praying for rain!!

A Thank You from Football Aid
1 Jul 2005 - Football - Tessa Burns
Football Aid, the beautiful game's favourite football charity, would like to say thank you to all the groundstaff of the Football Aid Clubs for their support in 2005.

From David to Goliath
11 Jun 2005 - Football - Editor - 10 comments
Wigan FC's rise to the Premiership. Who would have thought it! Little Wigan becoming a Premiership Football Club in only 25 years from birth. Their win over Reading ensured that the dreams of everyone involved in the club, especially the owner and Chairman, Mr. David Whelan, had been realised. More Inside.