So I was watching some footage of premiership football from the 90s and the pitches were muddy and the players were muddy when getting up after tackling etc.
You watch professional football from decades earlier and the are even more muddy.
Now if you stick a match on, after an unbelievable wet winter and spring, the pitches at St James’s, Anfield, old Trafford are immaculate and the players walk off looking like they don’t even need to wash thier kits.
What’s changed?
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I don’t know if hybrid grass has nixed this practice, but I seem to remember seeing an array of lights on a gantry which was slowly moved across the pitch between games. The lights were tuned to the UVA spectrum and encouraged grass to grow in super quick time, hence any ‘bald’ or muddy patches of turf could be seeded and regrown inbetween matches.
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