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SCHEME IS PITCH PERFECT

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
10 December 2017

ENGLAND are the world leaders in natural turf pitches and turf products – even our groundsmen are being poached!
Real Madrid and Paris Saint Germain have employed English groundsmen in recent years and it is rumoured that a transfer fee was paid for Paul Burgess to look after the surface at Real.
The FA has a Pitch Improvement Programme and we also work in partnership with the English Cricket Board and the Institute of Groundsmanship to improve the quality of natural turf pitches.
We employ a team of Pitch Advisors and football has 65% of a Regional Pitch Adviser’s time allocate...

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