Delay start of the football season, councils have begun urging football clubs after cracks wide enough to fit hands in emerged in pitches.
The health and safety precaution comes after weeks of hot weather across the country, causing the ground to dry up and split.
Redditch Borough Council has spoken to local football clubs and advised them to delay the start of the season, saying “safety must come first”.
One local club, Redditch United FC, have postponed their ladies league matches by one month while the men’s league, starting this weekend, are facing “horrific conditions.”
The club’s director, Jacintha Hodgson, told the Daily Telegraph: “Having a pitch dry and hard is one thing, but they are so hard that they have started developing cracks and some can fit a man’s hand down it. So a 7-year-old’s foot going into that would certainly break.
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