PICTURE: St James’ Park as you’ve never seen it before!
We’re all used to seeing Hatem Ben Arfa score spectacular individual efforts at St James’ Park, as well as Papiss Cisse hit the back of the net when he wants and Tim Krul keeping clean sheets, but something of a more unusual sight is the presence of vans and diggers!
While Newcastle United may have played their last game at St James’ Park in their current campaign, the 52,000-plus capacity stadium still has plenty of matches to host before the Magpies play their first home game of the 2012/13 Premier League season.
Almost as soon as Newcastle’s players finished their lap of honour to mark the end of the season following Sunday’s 2-0 defeat against champions-elect Manchester City, the groundsmen were hard at work digging up the pitch.
This is because St James’ Park hosts its first football match of the 2012 Olympics in less than two months’ time on Thursday 26th July. Then the Premier League will start a matter of just a couple of weeks later, so time is at a premium.
Groundsman Andrew Tully is hard at work alongside the rest of his staff to ensure that the St James’ Park pitch is in pristine condition for all of the matches that lie ahead. So if you visit the home of Newcastle United at the weekend, you won’t have seen it looking like this before…
What is it they say? Things have to get worse before they get better? Well, that’s certainly case with the pitch at St James’ Park right now!
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May 10th, 2012
it looks like the gypsy’s have moved onto the park, it’s even more realistic with the caravan towed with a transit van
May 10th, 2012
Looks like Andy Carroll is back with the Family
May 11th, 2012
*like
May 11th, 2012
As long as they don’t tarmac it…
May 11th, 2012
is this not the start of mike ashleys big plan to put a sports direct shop on the site of sjp wait for a press realse some time time soon ” we have decided to close newcastle united we have now put plans in place to make a huge sports direct megaa store on the site of sjp we will give all fans a 3 per cent discount for there continued support over the years and we are sorry that we have done this but we felt it was the way forward” lol wait and see
May 11th, 2012
Paul, yr an ar53hole.
May 11th, 2012
The olympics are coming up. It needs to be done anyway….
May 11th, 2012
They do this at the end of every season and have done for several years now, so how can ya say st James park seen like never before!! And porciestreet, I agree with you there mate, lol,
May 11th, 2012
sorry for having a laugh thats all it was i bet 12 month ago you wouldnt be calling me that it was a JOKE