3G or not 3G, that is the question.....
- Duncan Saunders
- Jul 8, 2025
- 2 min read
3G or not 3G, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
Abandonments by an outrageous referee,
Or to take pitchforks to a sea of a penalty box,
And by facing a points deduction to slip down the league
No more; and by a relegation, to say we end
The heart-ache, and the thousand unsold programmes
That cant be recycled? 'Tis a chairmans nightmare
Devoutly to be avoided. A relegation,
A relegation, perchance to play Hythe; aye, there's the rub,
For in that Derby of death, what nightmares may come,
When we have shuffled off this Isthmian League,
Must give us pause. There's the lost fixtures
That makes Calamity of so wet Winters:
For who would bear the Waterlogged pitches,
The 10am inspection's wrong, the proud man can't bounce a ball
The pangs of despised officials, misinterpreting the laws of the game
The insolence of the fixtures secretary, and the spurns
That patient merit of the fans' takes,
When he himself might a better pitch decision make
With a bare patch of grass? Who would bigger patches bear,
To grunt and sweat like a weary groundsman,
But that the dread of something after another postponement,
The undiscovered plastic pitch, from whose friction burns
No players leg hairs returns, puzzles the physio,
And makes us rather wince when the skin scrapes off,
But are there better artificial pitches that we know not of?
Thus making the 3G decision does make cowards of us all,
And thus the natural grass looking part of 3G
Is sicklied o'er, but can be washed by the magic sponge,
And clubs of great pitch and moment,
With this regard their postponements turn awry,
And lose no match revenue. a no-brainer you now,
The fair 3G choice? No selection is a sin
Of that a chairman will be remember'd.




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