Anyone read the Mail today? Rommy was supposed to have racial abuse aimed at him last Saturday night. Did'nt read the piece myself, a friend told me about it.
The Showgrounds pitch has improved immensely since the start of the season, much like the team, and it was refreshing that
for once Pat fenlon did'nt focus his negativity on our 'Farmers Field' in his post match coments.
I came across this piece in the Sligo Champion a couple of weeks ago,
maybe they might have a few cuttings left over and bring them back home to the Showgrounds !
A Sligoman's sports construction company has landed a multi-million dollar contract to design and install soccer pitches for the 2010 African Championships (COCAN)
SIS (Irl) Ltd, whose Chief Executive Officer is Sligo native, George Mullan, will install a total of fifteen natural grass pitches for the tournament which will be held in Angola in two years time.
Mr. Mullan signed the contract for the deal with the Angolian Ministry of Public Construction in Luanda last week.
The project will begin in May with all pitches completed by the end of July. SIS will take twentytwo employees, split into three teams to Angola to carry out work on the projects. All of the stadium venues in Luanda, Bengula, Lubango and Cabinda will have SIS pitches, as will the training centres and nursery pitches.
Mr. Mullan spent three weeks visiting the venues and reviewing the plans with Daniel Ribeiro of GeoDesenho, a Portuguese company.
SIS presented an unique proposal for the championships, not only to design and build but also to maintain the pitches through the growing period and to the end of the tournament.
"Rather than just building the pitches, we wanted to take ownership of the pitches through to the end of the tournament," explained Mr. Mullan. "This allows COCAN to focus on the tournament without concerns over the pitches"
He said the project opened up a new market for SIS in Africa and Angola in particular.
SIS has designated and constructed sports surfaces throughout Europe and for some of Europe's leading clubs, including Manchester United, Real Madrid, Glasgow Celtic, Rangers, Ajax and Benfica.
They also carried out the pitch installation in Moscow for the UEFA Champions League Cup final, the fourth time they installed a pitch for the final.
Natural turf is grown by SIS specifically to order for individual pitches and sports stadiums on farms in the UK, Portugal and Germany.
- LEO GRAY
http://www.sligochampion.ie/news/sli...s-1711255.html
Dont know if this through or not but Mullen is supposed to have approached Rovers before offering to re-lay the pitch for cost price but they turned him down.
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