As the war of words and claims and counter-claims between FIFA and many of the top women players in the world over the decision to play next summer’s World Cup in Canada on artificial surfaces escalated in the last week or so, FIFA upped the ante with both FIFA secretary-general Jerome Valcke and “independent” consultant Professor Eric Harrison piping in. Pravda Soccer, or FIFA.com to give it its proper title, ran an interview with Harrison the man who traveled with a FIFA delegation to inspect the six surfaces early in October. Titled “Harrison: Football Turf is integral to Canada 2015” the interview stuck to the party line that Canada has such severe weather conditions that artificial turf is the only choice. In answer to the question “would it be realistic www.safefifa16coins.com to switch to natural turf?” this was part of his answer: “The fields in these Northern latitudes are generally in poor condition after a long winter, with the natural turf appearing brown after many months without sunlight because they have been covered in snow. Furthermore, the effects of frost heave can leave many natural turf surfaces uneven requiring extensive re-levelling.” I can excuse the professor for failing basic geography in terms of northern latitudes. Moncton, one of the 2015 host cities, is 5 deg; further south than Plymouth which sits on the English south coast. The furthest north of the Canadian host cities is Edmonton which is still further south than Newcastle. Of course, location does not necessarily dictate climate although to characterize a uniform climate across a country that stretches for more than 2,500 miles is patently ridiculous. In some parts of Canada is the grass brown after winter? After thirty-five Canadian prairie winters I can categorically say that is true…..and after three or four weeks, quite miraculously, it turns green again! “Extensive re-leveling?” You would think all of Canada sits on the equivalent of the San Andreas fault line. There again, Professor Harrison is an expert on these sort of things climate, grass versus artificial turf so his opinion must carry a greater weight than a mere peon such as me. Except if you dig a bit deeper you find out that Professor Harrison has a lot of skin in the artificial surface game.
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