{"id":42999,"date":"2021-06-03T08:13:52","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T07:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=42999"},"modified":"2021-06-03T08:13:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T07:13:52","slug":"liberty-pitch-work-continues-diggers-move-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2021\/06\/03\/liberty-pitch-work-continues-diggers-move-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty pitch work continues &#8211; diggers move in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a much criticised playing surface last season and a forced relay of the pitch had to take place around the turn of the year with fans describing it as the worst surface in the football league at times.<\/p>\n<p>The remedial work carried out earlier this year was a temporary reprieve for a surface that for many years appeared to be one of the best around but has certainly gone downhill in recent years with some of the problems blamed last season on the short turnaround between football seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Cooper admitted after the 2-0 win over Barnsley at the end of December that the pitch was not helping\u00a0\u201cI know it\u2019s been a talking point for a number of weeks now and it\u2019s not been easy,\u201d he said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we\u2019ve got to play football on it and we\u2019ve been winning here \u2013 and that\u2019s the most important thing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know it will be a little bit different next time we come here which will be intriguing to see. But we\u2019ve dealt with the conditions really well and played football when we can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the picture below shows (taken yesterday) work is continuing on the pitch now during the close season.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_43000\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43000\" style=\"width: 1080px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-43000 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Liberty-pitch.jpg\" alt=\"Liberty Pitch\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1552\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43000\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit &#8211; DonKonky on the Planet Swans Forum https:\/\/staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/forum\/viewtopic.php?p=67915#p67915<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a much criticised playing surface last season and a forced relay of the pitch had to take place around the turn of the year with fans describing it as the worst surface in the football league at times. The remedial work carried out earlier this year was a temporary reprieve for a surface [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[293,49],"tags":[608],"class_list":["post-42999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-team","category-news","tag-the-2021-22-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}