Fa Act As Wembley Turf War Escalates ; Improvements Promised After Lampard Joins Storm Over Pitch [Edition 2]

Evening Standard - London › April 20, 2009

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THE Football Association admitted today that the pitch at Wembley was still not good enough as criticism grew over the state of the surface, writes Simon Johnson.

This weekend's FA Cup semi-finals were hampered by uneven turf that Sir Alex Ferguson claimed affected his team selection and was, at best, 'spongy and dead'.

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Fa Act As Wembley Turf War Escalates ; Improvements Promised After Lampard Joins Storm Over Pitch [Edition 2]

Frank Lampard added his voice to the argument today when he called for nonfootball events to be moved away from the stadium as Arsene Wenger clai...

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