Wembley To Be Resurfaced 5 Times A Year

[marky No.1]

As has been mentioned previously the pitch is cutting up badly particularly as many events other than football are taking place on the pitch.

It seems it is all down to money again as they have to hold these events to pay back the debt owing on the Stadium, hence resurfacing 75 times or so till 2023 is the economic way to do it

http://www.heart.co.uk/london/shows/new ... imes-per-/

[Duffman]

I always thought a new pitch needed time to "bed in" otherwise it would cut up, so I find it hard to understand why relaying it 5 times a year will combat it. We'll see with the upcoming matches what affect a new pitch will have but it's slightly annoying all this money could be going to, ironically, grass roots football.

[George Dawes]

not surprised...

nice stadium but me personaly id have rather kept the old stadium a historic national treasure and mecca of football instead of wasting millions of pounds

but thats only my opinion ive been to both and i had more feelings for old Wembley




and i thought that millennium dome, O1 arena(another waste of money) was for staging the big concerts what go on in London

[Christies Child]

I always thought a new pitch needed time to "bed in" otherwise it would cut up, so I find it hard to understand why relaying it 5 times a year will combat it. We'll see with the upcoming matches what affect a new pitch will have but it's slightly annoying all this money could be going to, ironically, grass roots football.

Interesting article on seeded pitches

http://www.sports-turf.net/casestudies/

Wonder if that's how Chesterfield and ourselves are talking about being ready pre-season?

[heysham_mfc]

They had a top UK groundsman on BBC Breakfast the other day and he said a seeded pitch can take about 8 weeks to grow.

[durhamshrimp]

02 arena is only about quarter of the capacity of Wembley for concerts. For example last year oasis played at Wembley for 2 or three nights, they'd have had to play at the O2 4x as many nights to play to the same amount of people.

[paulshrimp]

Isn't 8 weeks growing time cutting it a bit close? ( No pun intended ). Would it be reasonable to assume that the first game at the Globe could be 3rd week in July?

[Christies Child]

I wouldn't be surprised if next time Mike W and ian are down that the ground has been seeded. Therefore that gives it around 12 weeks to grow which all the experts reckon is ample.

Would be interesting to learn if they are using a mixture of normal seed and a synthetic additive as described in the Sports Turf article posted above.