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DIRTY TRICKS? THEY’RE PART OF THE GAME

IF SWANSEA boss Steve Cooper thought the pitch was bad at Cardiff last weekend, he should have tried playing away at Bury on a Tuesday night in 1998.
I’ve seen far worse surfaces in my playing days - and far dirtier tricks than a manager letting the grass grow out a little bit.
Managers will do anything they can to win games of football. When good passing teams have come to our ground in the past, I know that the manager has said to the groundsman ‘Don’t water the pitch’.
The last thing he wants is the grass to be perfectly suited to moving the ball quickly. We&rsquo...

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