The Football.....

[AndyRM]

Actually, the current ownership have spent a lot of money on the ground, which had been neglected for decades despite the years in the PL (or because of them). But they can't do everything at once. Drainage was apparently one of the next items on the to do list even before this week. This has not been a regular occurance for PFC- these cancellations are the first since 2013. Aberdeen and Motherwell both had games called off this week.

This.

I think the worst pitch I ever saw was at Fir Park when Gretna were ground sharing with Motherwell in 2007/8. By November the pitch resembled a ploughed field and was basically unplayable. I remember being at a League Cup game there one evening and watching a low cross came in which instead of bouncing stopped dead in a rut full of water. The players just stood and laughed, because there really wasn't anything else you could do.

Took them a good couple of seasons for the pitch to fully recover.

Games aren't just called off for fun, and maintaining a pitch properly is seriously hard work as well as expensive.