World Cup stadium having grass trouble

Not the best thing you want to hear when you are trying to get a £100 million football stadium ready for the World Cup, but the ground in Nelspruit is having trouble growing grass. Organisers have brushed it aside saying that it will be sorted in a couple of week.

The Mbombela Stadium is due to host their first group matches between Honduras and Chile on the 16th June, before hosting another three matches. The stadium has already failed one FIFA inspection in December and rumours are rife that an alternate venue will have to be found.

The venue has made two attempts to grow grass, but the ground has been described as an arid dustbowl. The stadium manager is confident that a solution will be found within the next two weeks to their grass growing problem and all this talk of another venue will disappear.

England’s base is not in much of a better state either after the FA confirmed that they will stick to their original choice. Concerns have been raised as the structural work is far from finished and the training grounds still look like a building site.