RESEARCH ON WINTER GAMES PITCHES: Getting answers to some of the questions

摘要

It is always immensely encouraging when you see old recordings of Match of the Day and some of the dreadful pitches from the sixties, seventies and early 1980's. Just think of the drainage problems that would have been evident especially after the unusually wet conditions we have experienced in the first half of the current football season. The turfgrass industry undoubtedly is making considerable progress though the improvement of construction methods, the breeding of new grass varieties, development of new maintenance equipment, improvements to the range of fertilisers and pesticides and the education and training of groundstaff.