Cardiff City striker Jay Bothroyd has run into Twitter trouble yesterday after twitting his displeasure of the state of the Cardiff City stadium pitch and the pitches at the Vale training ground.
He tweeted:
Our training pitches are the worst in the country along with our pitch!!!Our pitch is just mud and sand, just bobbly Great stadium, great fans, great training ground, everything is great except the pitches.
It was quickly taken down but it was too late to stop his tweet hitting the Cardiff City messageboards. The pitch at the CCS has been a major concern with the fans even the club have there concerns. If you compare Cardiff City stadium with the Liberty Stadium, both share with rugby clubs but the condition of the Liberty is miles better.
During the fitting out of the stadium the club omitted to buy in the new specialist lighting system with helps the pitch stay in condition. It costs around £300,000 to buy and the is a 3 month waiting list at least for delivery so even if the club were to invest it wouldn’t help for this season but what about next season.
The Cardiff City chief executive Gethin Jenkins said:
“We are aware of the comments made by one of our players on Thursday.“As a part of our ongoing pitch maintenance program, we have had turf experts visit the club on several occasions, including a visit this week.“The reason for the current condition of pitch is partly down to some of the coldest weather in 100 years. We recognise the need for lights to help the growth, but these cost more than £300,000 to purchase, plus considerable running costs. When these lights were needed to be ordered we were under a transfer embargo and our priority at that time was to address some of the fundamental issues concerning the club and the business.“The ground staff at Cardiff City Stadium have worked tirelessly this year to ensure matches have gone ahead and can’t be praised enough.“Naturally as we turn the business around we will look again at lights in the close season.“In the meantime, we will work hard to get the pitch back up to its normal high standards, helped no doubt by the coming spring.”
The conspiracy theories among the supporters believe there is a plan afoot by Bothroyd, his agent or even the club to get a transfer. However Bothroyd has wants to see out the season, Cardiff boss Dave Jones wants him to stay, the Malaysians are happy for him to say so do most of the fans some feel the club should cash in on the player everyone has an idea. I have one to like manager Jones keep him unless there is a crazy bid, there are only two days and a bit left before the transfer window is shut.
Bothroyd signed off is tweeter account yesturday saying,
Think I'm gonna have twitter break... I said I would last time but didn't . I'm gonna stick to it this time .... Speak soon tweetfam
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