Badgers had been turning his immaculate lawn into a lunar landscape, and for a disciple of “pitch culture” it was driving Steve Perryman mad. “It’s not Centre Court at Wimbledon or Wembley,” mused the Tottenham legend. “But I like to feel the grass beneath my feet.
If I wanted our local nightlife to dig it up, I’d give them a shovel.” When Perryman, who made a record 854 appearances for Spurs, took his first look at the club’s £1billion new stadium last year, it took his breath away.
But for all the top-of-the-range fixtures and fittings, the first thing he wanted to test was the playing surface. “My first judgment of a club is always the pitch,” said the FA Cup-winning captain of 1981 and 1982. “Why?
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