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The worst football pitch you played on
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aston lad
master brummie
Daisy Farm was always full of bricks and stones sticking out of the ground, Waggon Lane, one of its pitches had a dip in it, as you was running you would suddenly take off, painful when you hit the ground during the early season games, Selly Oak or Selly Park, had a 45 degree slope on it, when it was wet you spend more time on your bum at the bottom of the slope, I would love to see these over paid players play on some of the pitches we had to play on.....but the worst one was the pitch on Blew Street, well it wasn't a proper pitch as such, it had two goals at either end, and a mass of concrete in between, team numbers could vary from 5 a side to 30 , just a mass of bodies of all ages playing together, seen many a split head, broken collar bones, cut knees and elbows, just a blood bath at times.....I just I was there having a game now....
Wrights Ropes ground circa 1950. It was somewhere in the Aston/Nechells area from memory. I think it was an old industrial tip that had been levelled. The pitch took up the entire flat area so that when the ball went out of play it required a suicidal slither down the slope in order to retrieve it. Going down onto the playing surface was a lethal business as I can testify since I was the goalkeeper. No grass existed - just ash, glass and stone etc. Terrible but I survived! Regards. willey
Bernard67Arnold
master brummie
Not played on it but by far the worst pitch I have ever seen is the old Baseball Ground Derby.
Bernard
Bernard
At my newly built secondary school, the powers that bedecided that Red GRA would be a suitable surface for a boys school footballpitch, not.
It was horrid stuff, at first in the new school the groundkeepers would tend to its with loving care; even so, if you fell over, or slid,it would scratch you to bits.
The loving care of course did not last long, so it becamerock hard, so you got scratched you to bits, and black and blue too.
The people who chose this surface worked for the educationdepartment, so it just goes to show what a lot knowledge can do.
It was horrid stuff, at first in the new school the groundkeepers would tend to its with loving care; even so, if you fell over, or slid,it would scratch you to bits.
The loving care of course did not last long, so it becamerock hard, so you got scratched you to bits, and black and blue too.
The people who chose this surface worked for the educationdepartment, so it just goes to show what a lot knowledge can do.
james houston
Mr Sparks
Worst pitches must have been at Billesley Common remember one having a footpath through it.
maypolebaz
master brummie
Never mind the state of the pitch mate. We had to play on Billesley Common when I was a kid at Wheelers Lane school. The wind that blew across there used to cut straight through you !
Hi
I played on all the above mentioned pitches but among my worst memories of bad pitches are Hay Mills Rec & Solihull College.
At Hay Mills they used to have the circus on the area & someone rolled the ball across the edge of the penalty area & as I hit the ball it went into a hole where the Tent poles had been, one bad ankle from that.
Solihull College pitch I remember getting on into the second half & one of our players went into a sliding tackle & there was a manhole on the pitch, he had to have several stitches but no one had noticed this manhole all season, we had to get a mat to put over it to finish the game.
Apart from the pitches what about the "shower" facilities, at Daisy Farm it used to be buckets of water & when they did get showers they were at knee height!!! The balls were heavy the pitches were heavy & the changing rooms at Daisy farm were like prison cages where if you were not careful you got splinters in your b?m!!!!
Happy days
I played on all the above mentioned pitches but among my worst memories of bad pitches are Hay Mills Rec & Solihull College.
At Hay Mills they used to have the circus on the area & someone rolled the ball across the edge of the penalty area & as I hit the ball it went into a hole where the Tent poles had been, one bad ankle from that.
Solihull College pitch I remember getting on into the second half & one of our players went into a sliding tackle & there was a manhole on the pitch, he had to have several stitches but no one had noticed this manhole all season, we had to get a mat to put over it to finish the game.
Apart from the pitches what about the "shower" facilities, at Daisy Farm it used to be buckets of water & when they did get showers they were at knee height!!! The balls were heavy the pitches were heavy & the changing rooms at Daisy farm were like prison cages where if you were not careful you got splinters in your b?m!!!!
Happy days