The future looked bleak for Eddie Donne. In March 1998, he was 21 years old and living in Swansea, a gray, industrial seaside city known as the Welsh Riviera. Donne was the overworked groundskeeper at the Vetch Field, an obscure stadium named after an obscure vegetable that used to grow there. The Vetch was home […]
An all-new range of advanced granular fertilisers, which uses two slow release sources of nitrogen to provide a phased-release over a 16-week period from one application, has been launched by COMPO EXPERT. The new Floranid®Twin range of phased-release fertilisers has been specifically designed for use on sports pitches, golf courses, tennis courts and all fine-turf […]
Peterborough United will pay their own small tribute to fallen policeman Keith Palmer tomorrow (April 1). Palmer lost his life in the recent Westminster attack. He was a long-standing Charlton season ticket-holder, the team Posh host in a League One clash at the ABAX Stadium tomorrow. There will be a minute’s silence before the match […]
Bathed in early-spring sunlight this week, the renamed Cloudfm County Ground in Chelmsford looked as pretty as a picture as the final preparations were being made ahead of the start of another season. Stuart Kerrison, head groundsman since 1991, looked out from the pavilion and declared: “I think most people looking at it would think […]
Few schools in the UK can claim to have over 22 different sports pitches located within their grounds. However, for Queen Ethelburga’s Collegiate in York, their sporting facilities rival many of the country’s leading premiership clubs. Opened in 1912, the Independent boarding school’s sporting curriculum is one of the most expansive in the country, with […]
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