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For most viewers of a football match, the pitch is merely a blank canvas awaiting its art. But before the artistry must come the science. These days it takes more than a pitchfork and a mower to get the game’s top turfs up to standard. We speak to two of the best grounds managers in the business to discover how today’s ground staff have transformed from crabby greenfingers into techie agronomists.

John Ledwidge, Tony Stones