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Article: Life's a pitch for Finchy! FOOTBALL: The weather is Mike's biggest challenge, not Take That and co...
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- Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
- Article date:
- June 5, 2009
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Byline: Andy Turner
GROWING grass for a living, you've got to have a little... patience.
And that quality is being tested to the full for Coventry City's groundsman Michael Finch when Take That take to the stage at Ricoh Arena for three nights next week, killing a quarter of the lush pitch that he lovingly cares for 52 weeks of the year to ensure the Sky Blues have a world class surface to play on.
But Finchy - as he is inevitably known in the footballing idiom - is a master in the art of cultivating the perfect sports pitch and he sees Gary, ...