The pitch.........

KIPAX

KIPAX

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It's smaller.. anyone else notice? The gap between the wall in front of main stand and pitch is noticably wider and as such the pitch must be smaller..

How interesting is that ? :)
 
I see the dip is still there in the pitch, thought they would have levelled that out a bit, really noticable from the Clayton end
 
K.S.H said:
I see the dip is still there in the pitch, thought they would have levelled that out a bit, really noticable from the Clayton end
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Agreed the dip did seem a bit more noticeable and with the amount of sand it was like watching football on a waterlogged pitch.
 
KIPAX said:
It's smaller.. anyone else notice? The gap between the wall in front of main stand and pitch is noticably wider and as such the pitch must be smaller..

How interesting is that ? :)
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Indeed your right Kipax..It was done so the floodlights could light the wings better as last season in night matches they were a bit dark because of the stand blocking the light from the floodlights..
 
This is something I have always had a bee in my bonnet about.:mad:

Surely all pitches should be the same size, wider/ longer pitches can give players advantages/disadvantages.
I would have thought the FA would have a ruling on this but obviously not!:)
 
They do have a ruling. They have to be within certain parameters, with specific features (penalty spot, goals etc) at precise points. The differences are not that great, IIRC, and get more stringent as you progress through the leagues.
 
The length of a pitch must be between 100 yards (90m) and 130 yards (120m) and the width not less than 50 yards (45m) and not more than 100 yards (90m).

Wigan’s pitch dimensions are 110 x 60, Newcastle 105 x 68, Liverpool 110 x 75, Portsmouth 105 x 66, Aston Villa 105 x 69, Norwich 114yds x 74yds, Real Madrid 106yds x 70yds. There is quite a difference the longest being 114yds and the shortest 105yds. The widest being 75yds and the narrowest only 60yds. For International matches the length must be between 100yds and 110yds and the width between 64yds and 75yds.
 
LeeVarender said:
So you could in theory have a square pitch.
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I was taken to Blackburn matches up until the end of the 95 season (I know, it borders on child abuse :rolleyes: ) & Ewood always looked a bit square to me from the Blackburn End.
 
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Has anyone else noticed that on a legal pitch there are 8 obstructions?

The line marking out the perimeter of the pitch is part of the playing area yet the four corner posts are on the line as are the four goal posts. Yes, I know it has been like that since goal posts took precedent over two coats but that doesn’t make it right, does it?
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How many goals have been scored when the ball hits the post and bounces in, when if the posts had been those few inches back the ball would not have bounced into the goals.
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Also is the line marking out the penalty area part of the area?
 
I must be thicker than I thought I was. I never knew they where different sizes even when they appear to be bigger or smaller at other grounds I just put it down to old age, failing eye sight and the lighting....:rolleyes:
 
Bottletop said:
This is something I have always had a bee in my bonnet about.:mad:

Surely all pitches should be the same size, wider/ longer pitches can give players advantages/disadvantages.
I would have thought the FA would have a ruling on this but obviously not!:)
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I think you'll find that the FA have minimum widths and lenghths of pitches Bottletop, I also think that UEFA pitch sizes are also different for Champs League and UEFA cup matches, remember Bolton last season when you could clearly see the old pitch markings for a Uefa cup match. Arsenal had one of the narrowest pitches in the country at Highbury, it will be interesting to see if they keep the same width at their new stadium next season
 
How can such differences in pitch sizes be allowed?

Just imagine if for example all the tennis courts at wimbeldon where different sizes,

John Mcenroe shouting the ball was in!! umpire(or whatever they call them in tennis) sorry the ball was out but if you where on court number 6 which is 6 inches wider then you would have been right John!!!:)
 
remember Bolton last season when you could clearly see the old pitch markings for a Uefa cup match.

I remember seeing that Jaysay and at the time couldn't work out why the markings had been moved, thanks for enlightening me:) :)
 
When league football was just a fledgling organisation many of the teams could not allocate enough land for a standard sized pitch so the FA decreed that a pitch could be of any size within the set parameters.

However EUFA is different in that teams competing in the EUFA competitions have to have a pitch of a fixed size or maybe it is within different parameters. Either way it does mean that some teams have to change their pitch markings to comply with EUFA rules when playing in Europe.
 
think its also in the rules that the pitch must be rectangular, though as long as your touchlines were half an inch longer than the goal lines you wouldn't be so far off...

LeeVarender said:
So you could in theory have a square pitch.
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