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Lacrosse roads?
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By Tom James (10 May 08 13:00)
A sport sidelined for decades is enjoying a groundswell of interest but is still battling a shortfall of adequate facilities. - Read Article
Shelton's Demonstration Day
General Sports -
By Press Release (10 May 08 13:00)
Shelton Sportsturf Drainage Solutions will be hosting a working demonstration day and LDCA Council Meeting on Thursday 29th May, at Baumber Village Hall, Baumber, Horncastle, Lincs, LN9 5NF. - Read Article
UEFA Champions League Final pitch installed by British company in Moscow
Football -
By Press Release (09 May 08 9:00) - 1 comment
THE FIRST all-England UEFA Champions League final between Manchester United and Chelsea will be played on a Moscow pitch installed by a British company.
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Green Fingers
Golf -
By Tim Lobb (08 May 08 16:30)
With the planet’s temperature rising and worldwide concerns over ‘global warming’ and ‘carbon footprint,’ Tim Lobb, of renowned golf course architecture practice Thomson Perrett & Lobb, tells us just how green is golf? And what are course designers doing to help save the planet? - Read Article
Blec ‘Top Six’ Demo Tour
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By John Reynolds (08 May 08 16:00) - 1 comment
Peterborough based Blec Machinery have recently completed a week long, five venue demonstration tour to show off their latest developments. - Read Article
Act now to avert Take-All attack
General Sports -
By Press Release (08 May 08 12:55)
A spell of hot dry weather this week has created a high risk of Take-All infection, not normally experienced this early in the spring. Heritage is the only fungicide approved for control of Take-All, and should be applied ahead of infection breaking out.
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Why cricket forced batsmen to give up scientific advances
Cricket -
By Press Release (08 May 08 10:00) - 1 comment
Technological innovations in bats have hugely altered the balance between batsmen and bowlers, which makes the authorities' action this week long overdue, writes Angus Fraser
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Moscow's Champions League pitch replaced
Football -
By Press Release (08 May 08 9:45) - 1 comment
A major doubt has emerged over the playing surface for the Champions League final. - Read Article
Building for the African Cup of Nations
Football -
By Editor (07 May 08 14:00)
When, in 2003, Frank Boahene, the then Head of Corporate Grounds at Fulham FC, was asked to act as a consultant to the Ghanaian Sports Ministry in the run up to the African Nations Cup neither he, nor the Ministry, realised just how much work was required to get everything ready for the tournament.
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All the threes for Kestrel
Football -
By Press Release (07 May 08 13:00)
Everything comes in threes. Kestrel have just completed their third stadium pitch construction in the last three years.
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MJ Abbotts - In the beginning
General Sports -
By Editor (06 May 08 12:00)
From humble beginnings more than forty years ago, MJ Abbotts has become one of the leading sportsturf contractors in the UK. With its roots in agriculture, and a team of just five, how did the Wiltshire-based company evolve? Pitchcare talks to Contracts Director Nigel Wyatt
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Crossing over for Jordan
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By Laurence Gale MSc (06 May 08 11:00)
Former Crystal Palace Head Groundsman, Ian Jordan, talks to Pitchcare’s Laurence Gale MSc about setting up his own contracting business
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May Football Diary
Football -
By Malcolm Gardner (06 May 08 9:00)
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May Golf Diary
Golf -
By Laurence Gale MSc (06 May 08 8:00)
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Ransomes Jacobsen support company's Czech Greenkeeper exchange visit
Golf -
By Peter Driver (05 May 08 10:00)
Ransomes Jacobsen, the UK’s leading turf maintenance equipment manufacturer, has supported an exchange visit of Czech greenkeepers organised and facilitated by The Club Company. - Read Article
Thomson Perrett & Lobb signs Goosen to design staff
Golf -
By Press Release (04 May 08 10:00)
International golf course architecture practice recruits South African to world-class design team
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A song featuring Ebbsfleet United groundsman Peter Norton has been produced.
Football -
By Press Release (02 May 08 9:00) - 5 comments
Peter Norton's 'Beat The Weather' features Brazilian percussion, big beats, 808s, 909s, football chants, talking-heads style instrumentation, plus Peter's life-changing words of wisdom.
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May Cricket Diary
Cricket -
By Laurence Gale MSc (02 May 08 8:00)
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May Tennis Diary
Tennis -
By Laurence Gale MSc (02 May 08 7:00)
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Russell’s green passion
General Sports -
By Press Release (01 May 08 15:00)
Council’s Oval Maintenance Supervisor, Russell Fensom, has helped transform the playing field at BCU International Stadium into a world-class facility. - Read Article
