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 qui...