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Worst pkaying surfaces in the football league, past and present
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MORTY
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Stockport
Curious Orange
Punxsatawney Phil
Withdean before they sorted the drainage.
Gerbil
Nsc's most loved
Colchester was the best, what a great pitch 
pasty
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Those f***ing awful plastic pitches. I remember losing 6-1 at Oldham on theirs (Andy Ritchie hatrick) on a bloody freezing day one February. Worst away trip EVER.
I remember QPR & Luton also tried them. Any others?
I remember QPR & Luton also tried them. Any others?
Set of Tracksuits
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Yes.
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Anyone remember Gerry Ryan scoring on a glue pot of a pitch at the City Ground, Nottingham in 1980?
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Spent the night in Manchester afterwards. Great Curry houses. Did not have to buy drinks as those Manchester folk looked after us real proper like
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Watched it on Match of The Day. Got our season started. A hint of off side?
corkster
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how about our beloved goldstone, that could be proper shit sometimes
Taybha
Whalewhine
Todays worst would be Stockport Walsall or Colchecter
Yesteryears Would have been Blackpool Derby Brighton
The best league clubs pitch ive ever seen was Bristol Rovers , 10 mins before the ref called the game off because he happened to inspect it during a downpour.
Yesteryears Would have been Blackpool Derby Brighton
The best league clubs pitch ive ever seen was Bristol Rovers , 10 mins before the ref called the game off because he happened to inspect it during a downpour.
Man of Harveys
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No way; it was more often one of the best pitches in the country. It certainly had a good reputation at the time.
In those days one of the better pitches, it drained really well.
I'm open to derision here but did Preston have one??
patcham lad
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what about ankle deep mud at the Dell?
pasty
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No derision.Storer68
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Yup (it was shite)
Cash-strapped Preston were 91st in the Football League and about to go bust so they decided to go plastic, make Deepdale a public pitch, and from that moment things started picking up for them.
The first season they played on it they got promoted but six years of third tier football followed before a relegation. The 1993-94 season was the final non-grass season for North End, the first ever Football League champions ending with a play-off defeat of Torquay in the second leg.
As a business venture, the plastic pitch was genius. Deepdale was fully booked every day of the year, the cash flowed in, the club became the focal point of town life and crowds rose from an average of 4,000 to around 15,000.
Preston, the club that gave football Sir Tom Finney, literally saved themselves by paying their bills with plastic, and the original Invincibles (they won 18 and drew four of their 22 League matches when they won the title; they also won the FA Cup without conceding a goal) came back strongly to give the world David Nugent.
League record on plastic
86-87: W16 D4 L3 F36 A18
87-88: W10 D6 L7 F30 A23
88-89: W14 D7 L2 F56 A31
89-90: W10 D7 L6 F42 A30
90-91: W11 D5 L7 F33 A29
91-92: W12 D7 L4 F42 A32
92-93: W8 D5 L10 F41 A47
93-94: W13 D5 L3 F46 A23
BRIGHT ON Q
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Anyone remember Stamford Bridge in the olden days?.That used to be shite.
Dick Knights Mumm
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Which was the Cup Final (or maybe it was an international) the week after they had the show jumping at Wembley. That is inconceivable these days.
Loftus Road was like a quagmire during the 60's/70's, this match was in 1970.
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