Brian Laudrup urges SFA and SPFL to have Hampden semi final rethink and points to Danish example
dailyrecord.co.ukBrian Laudrup has called for the Scottish FA and SPFL to scrap back-to-back semi-finals on the Hampden pitch.The playing surface barely cped with Celtic vs Kilmarnock on Saturday evening, let alone Rangers taking on Aberdeen the following day after the recent wet weather.
All four managers were critical of the pitch, with the game's governing bodies have vowed to improve ahead the final between Ange Postecoglou and Michael Beale's teams on 26 February.But Laudrup has questioned whether the final four encounters need to be played on successive days at Hampden.
The Dane feels it takes away from the occasion when neither set of players can play their normal game due to having to deal with the mud.
And he's pointed to the fact that his homeland doesn't play the semi-finals at the national stadium in Copenhagen, which has issues of its own when it comes to the condition of the park.Not many things will have the managers of Rangers and Celtic expressing a near-identical viewpoint, but the condition of the Hampden pitch managed to unite them.
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