Pitch for England game friday

[Dare to dream!]

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jun/11/manaus-pitch-brazil-world-cup-2014-england-italy

Ridiculous! Starting to heat up now more and more stories of protests and unrest causing cahos with the traffic. I think this World Cup is going to be cahos all the way through

[Wild Rover]

Thought it was KMS on a really bad day.

OH and DTD, don't wait up for game on Friday, its Saturday.

[PDX_Rover]

Played on worse. It doesn't look that bad tbh.

[Dare to dream!]

Thought it was KMS on a really bad day.

OH and DTD, don't wait up for game on Friday, its Saturday.

Ha ha just noticed that! My mistake

[Wild Rover]

Larger version of photos.

http://metro.co.uk/2014/06/11/englands-world-cup-pitch-in-manaus-is-looking-well-not-great-4757666/

[DonnyBazR0ver]

They'll just spray the yellow bits green. Job done.

[Wellred]

Getting the excuses in early are we?

[DonnyBazR0ver]

Ha ha. Beware the pass back Joe Hart !!

[boro_rover]

A bobbly half dead pitch will definately suit us better than Italy. Pirlo won't be half as successful passing about on that.

[Donny Dub]

I have to point out to you Boro that all the footballers in Italy play on grit 'till they reach the leagues.   The kids all start on grit pitches in the local parish.  Grass is a rare commodity in Italy, you cannot buy a lawn mower anywhere over there.
England should mow 'em down on Saturday.
Good luck!

[hoolahoop]

Sounds like we're done for then !

[Lipsy]

This is the pitch we need:

[hoolahoop]

Chaos bloody cahos , that's what it is. Take it that's Portuguese ?

[graingrover]

 I was fortunate  to play on one of the beautiful grass pitches that you find  in Milan. My recollection is the pitch hire was expensive but all perfectly grassed and well maintained .
 I think a bobbly pitch like Manaus will probably suit those players with superior ( one touch)ball control. 

[Dare to dream!]

The pitch in Manaus is being spray painted green to cover up the poor surface, that really is ridiculous

[PDX_Rover]

Meanwhile, preparations steaming ahead in Qatar...