It’s each groundsman’s nightmare: kick-off imminent, and the pitch is unplayable as a result of drenched situations have brought on the strains on the pitch to fade.
The paint gained’t go down on the flooded pitch, so the place do you supply an alternate white line? Go and converse to the dodgy fella in a trenchcoat outdoors the stadium? Try to take away them from Grandmaster Flash’s thoughts? One thing else unspeakable?
That was the issue dealing with Oliveirense as they tried to get their Portuguese second-tier conflict with Felgueiras to go forward in flooded situations in northern Portugal on Sunday afternoon.
Entire milk used to attract purpose line to rescue Oliveirense v Felgueiras
With the purpose line trying very patchy on an especially moist and muddy pitch, Sport TV cameras clocked the bottom employees emptying cartons of milk into the road marker.
Record.pt clarified that removed from being a determined last-second substitution for lacking paint, the transfer was really a sensible little bit of considering.
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Paint was in truth out there, however they opted to make use of complete milk regardless as a result of it isn’t water soluble because of its fats and lactose content material, thus inflicting it to congeal right into a gummy state that may stay seen all through the sport. And now we all know what we’re doing within the again backyard this night.
The road was then re-drawn utilizing the milk, permitting the sport to proceed, albeit with a 15 minute delay to the scheduled kick-off time.
Oliveirense may need they hadn’t bothered ultimately, although: they went behind within the very first minute and ended up on the receiving finish of a three-goal defeat.
That leaves the membership rooted to the underside of the second-tier desk, 4 factors away from Porto B, whereas Felgueiras are up in thirteenth as a part of a congested mid-table pack.
We stay up for seeing the identical answer deployed at Cowdenbeath, Uddersfield and Newcattle.
