Wembley to lay desso pitch

[strings]

Finally the FA are trying the obvious solution to Wembley's rubbish surface and putting a part-synthetic pitch at Wembley. Other venues to use this surface include the Emirates and the City of Manchester Stadium. They are currently installing one across the road from where I am sitting at Molineux too.

The FA: Wembley to lay Desso pitch

 

[Gwylan]

What's a Desso pitch? Is that something that incorporates the remains of Desert Orchid?

 

[geoff2021]

i think youll find this is also being used at Falmer?

 

[Marc]

The synthetic part is binded together at the grass base (roots area) to help the grass stay tightly knitted to the surface and thus helps against turf being ripped up ala Wembley.
Its kind of misleading in the "part-synthetic" as people think that means its half grass half astro-turf in lamens terrms...but its not, its 100% grass that grows!

The Emirates pitch is something to behold, as you can see in this pic I took in February when I went for a wander:

 

[We're the Stripes]

UNBELIEVABLE how it's taken them this long to think "scrap it, we'll just use the formula that's been so successful for just about every TOP football pitch in the country".

Utterly bemused me why they didn't just go for it from the start, especially when you consider the money they pumped into the construction - a pitch prepared to a top Premier League standard was the least I expected.

More information here..

Desso GrassMaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Jack Straw]

Taken from Desso's Web Site;

Desso GrassMaster is a sports field of 100% natural grass reinforced with Desso synthetic grass fibres. The unique element of this patented reinforced natural grass system is the 20 million artificial grass fibres injected 20 cm deep into the pitch. During the growing process, the roots of the natural grass entwine with the synthetic grass fibres and anchor the turf into a stable and even field. In this way the natural grass fibres are well protected against tackles and sliding. Moreover, it ensures better drainage of the pitch. Despite the fact that 3% of the pitch is made up of synthetic grass fibres, Desso GrassMaster gives players the feeling of playing on a 100% natural grass pitch.

 

[StanmoreSeagull]

Certainly good news if true. £798 million and they didn't think to bother about the playing surface - crazy!

However, not sure how this will work if they're still panning on relaying the Wembley pitch up to 7 times a year. It works at Arsenal because they don't relay the pitch a million times a season!

BBC Sport - Football - Wembley pitch will be relaid indefinitely up to 2023