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Worst Pitch you every played on
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Played on there with a gale blowing down the hill once.
Our goalkicks were reaching the 18 yd box and then lifting in the wind and being blown back over the bar.
Cue goalie running down the hill to fetch the ball so the same thing could happen again.
Can remember a game for the school where the pitch had been covered with a layer of ice. It had thawed sufficiently to crack the ice so it was like playing on a pitch with broken panes of glass strewn everywhere. Sliding tackles were fun!
Pitch at Hamilton Rd Horsham. Looks great, flat not a problem but and a huge but it used to be an old brick yard and bricks were for ever appearing when the pitch become muddy. I used to play in goal and was forever getting cut legs, arms and torso from diving. Unfortunately it was our home pitch for 3 years.
The Spanish
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could be brutal up there. if northerners ever think southerners are soft they should try playing up there in winter. like something out of kes except looking down on a seaside town rather than a a mill town.
Played schoolboy football at Wish Road in the 70s and away games in Sunday junior games at Plumpton and can attest to the dogshit and tractor marks though I never minded playing at Plumpton as it meant you were playing Bridgeview which in those days was a guaranteed 5-0 win or better.
I hate old skool astroturf, worse if like at PCC it sometimes has 'interesting' debris on it.
However, for just over 2 years, I played for an ex pat team in Taiwan when I was working there. One day our regular pitch was double booked so a few of us bunked in to what we thought was a local turn up and play 5-a-side pitch in the middle of a traffic intersection. It had 2 goals, no markings and was pitted with sticks, stones and stuff that smelled distinctly unpleasant. We played for 10 minutes and then went for a beer.
I hate old skool astroturf, worse if like at PCC it sometimes has 'interesting' debris on it.
However, for just over 2 years, I played for an ex pat team in Taiwan when I was working there. One day our regular pitch was double booked so a few of us bunked in to what we thought was a local turn up and play 5-a-side pitch in the middle of a traffic intersection. It had 2 goals, no markings and was pitted with sticks, stones and stuff that smelled distinctly unpleasant. We played for 10 minutes and then went for a beer.
SIMMO SAYS
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Wivelsfield Green used to be like a bog in the winter. I remember having a shot at goal and the ball stopped dead on the goal line only for my mate to slam it in from 1". I meanwhile was running off up the pitch celebrating the strike of the season!
Our Home pitch at one time was Knoll Rec. We used to drain the puddles of water with buckets before the ref arrived so he didnt call it off.
We would see people let their dogs crap all over it while waiting to get fecking changed!!
Our Home pitch at one time was Knoll Rec. We used to drain the puddles of water with buckets before the ref arrived so he didnt call it off.
We would see people let their dogs crap all over it while waiting to get fecking changed!!
Played on that too, truly shocking as are their very poor excuse for a changing room
Also Cranleigh RFC the pitch that is set down the road from the clubhouse, an absolute quagmire and it stank !
Remember playing at our ground in Crawley when the pitch partially flooded at one end, running across the try line for a try diving and aquaplaning through the water and straight out across the dead ball line ! f*** me that was cold !
chrissyboy01
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East Brighton Park in about 2000. Total quagmire of a pitch resulting in a compound fracture for one of the opposition. Can still hear the snap of his shin followed by an eerie silence before the screaming kicked in. Grim
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A little pitch on the coast of Lake Malawi. The ground was like sandpaper. I was in goal and lost most of the skin on my legs. We lost 3-1 to the delight of the 3,000 strong and partisan crowd.
The Dyke fields at Lancing were pretty dire. They appeared to be below sea-level, judging by the pools of water come winter. Although they were great for slide tackles and Klinsmann dives.
The Dyke fields at Lancing were pretty dire. They appeared to be below sea-level, judging by the pools of water come winter. Although they were great for slide tackles and Klinsmann dives.
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Does anyone remember the Uckfield pitch that used to run up the other side of the high street..if you wernt 5-0 up at half time you would lose 6-5 it was that steep.
Also there was a pitch in front of east court house in East grinstead called the Cup and saucer, if you know were I mean you cant believe anyone put a pitch there. In fact we were asked to play a semi final there in the late 80s and both teams refused!!
Also there was a pitch in front of east court house in East grinstead called the Cup and saucer, if you know were I mean you cant believe anyone put a pitch there. In fact we were asked to play a semi final there in the late 80s and both teams refused!!
SIMMO SAYS
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I played my first Sunday League (CO-OP) match there around 1975 and scored the winner! The 'wooden hut' changing room was something to behold wasn't it!
Raleigh Chopper
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When I lived in T Wells I played for Matfield on a pitch in Brenchley. If you stood on the goal line at one end you could only see the crossbar at the other end, but the slope from touchline to touchline was twice as bad. No grass always ankle deep in mud, and when it froze the lumpy mud was lethal. No wonder I have one leg shorter than the other.
Raleigh Chopper
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Oh yeah, and absolutely freezing changing rooms.
Camicus
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Northampton casuals rugby pitch covered in dog shit broken beer bottles and used condoms f***ing awful
When I played for the Stanford Arms in Sussex Sunday League back in the very early 80s, one of those was our home pitch for a season. Bloody nightmare.
There aren't any football pitches in or near Hollingbury road?
Could you mean hollingbury park, near the golf course?
Raleigh Chopper
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The winner surely
Unless someone comes back with - you were lucky..........
You were lucky. We used to play in t'hole in middle of road. We could'nt afford boots or shirts or a ball we had to use t'cat. and the manager would thrash us with a broken bottle after t'game and that's if we won.
The worst thing for me, being of the weak ankle ligaments type was the tendency for the groundsman to make the lines on the pitch a few feet below sea level compared to the rest of the pitch. I mean was is that all about?
If your not looking where you are putting your feet which is often bearing in mind you should be keeping your eye on the ball you tend to trip down the line on the six yard box.
If your not looking where you are putting your feet which is often bearing in mind you should be keeping your eye on the ball you tend to trip down the line on the six yard box.