SM
The avuncular one
...And when you get there, the pitch is awful. Looking at the field of battle for today on my arrival, experience says, sorry screamed out, don't do this game - it's soft and muddy to varying degrees of sticky and going to become a lot worse as the game goes on. Especially down the middle of the pitch. My colleague has dropped me in it here.
I have driven an hour to get there, as have the away team, who are there before me.
Tell both teams I'm not happy with it, cue moaning from both sides that they are there now and want to play. Weak officiating, I relent and the game is played. Deep sticky mud more suitable for a tough mudder event in several places by the end of the first half and if the game wasn't over as a contest by then and both teams just going through the motions and not really taking it that seriously, I would have been thinking seriously about walking away as I couldn't put my hand on my heart and say that it was a safe pitch to play on. Hands up here, weak officiating. Live and learn.
I have driven an hour to get there, as have the away team, who are there before me.
Tell both teams I'm not happy with it, cue moaning from both sides that they are there now and want to play. Weak officiating, I relent and the game is played. Deep sticky mud more suitable for a tough mudder event in several places by the end of the first half and if the game wasn't over as a contest by then and both teams just going through the motions and not really taking it that seriously, I would have been thinking seriously about walking away as I couldn't put my hand on my heart and say that it was a safe pitch to play on. Hands up here, weak officiating. Live and learn.