Evening Standard - London, July 24th, 2000
GROUNDSMEN and women are the people responsible for keeping your favourite footy team's pitch pothole-free, the company golf course green and trimmed, and the local athletics field carefully marked out. They manage land for all kinds of recreational activities, and keep the soil and turf in the right condition for whatever sport is played on it: fine turf for cricket, rough for football.
Groundsmen spend their days outside, maintaining the facilities for which they are responsible, although the level and nature of the tasks varies by season. For example, local-authority sports fields may be i...
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