Mother and father of younger footballers throughout South Lanarkshire kicked off after grass soccer pitch lets for Saturday have been cancelled because of obvious "water-logged" parks - an entire 24 hours previous to video games being performed.
As rain battered the county final week, South Lanarkshire Council (SLC) made the choice on the Friday morning to cancel all video games set to be performed on their grass pitches over the weekend.
But, as younger gamers awoke on Saturday morning, the torrential climate had cleared with the solar splitting the bushes and lots of the water-logged parks "drained and playable" in response to annoyed soccer mums and dads.
One such park was the Priory Soccer Pitches, on Farm Street, Blantyre, that one dad-of-two younger footballers inspected very first thing on Saturday morning, describing the choice to name off video games the day earlier than as "hasty".
The dad, whose youngest son was because of play for Blantyre Soccer Academy at 10am on Saturday, was disheartened to study that the pitch was in perfect enjoying situation.
He later took to social media to voice his disappointment and was backed by different dad and mom who agreed the decision was the incorrect one to make.
The mum or dad advised Lanarkshire Reside : "Priory Soccer Pitch ought to have been performed on by scores of children on Saturday had it not been for SLC who, on Friday morning, took the ridiculous choice to shut all grass pitches within the space for the complete weekend.
"A call that denied tons of of children within the space the prospect to play a recreation of soccer due to the climate.
"But, as I suspected, the park couldn't have been in higher situation. An ideal day for soccer however, as soon as once more, the council made the lazy choice to disclaim the kids that chance.
"To cancel pitch lets 24 hours earlier than a recreation is ridiculous. Inspections ought to have been carried out on Saturday morning, the place council workers would have discovered that lots of the pitches throughout the county have been very a lot playable, drained and in nice situation because of the rainfall.
"It appears its one other cost-cutting, lazy and hasty choice by SLC."
Different dad and mom claimed that Hamilton's Palace Grounds grass parks have been additionally in perfect enjoying situations on Saturday. Pitches that tons of of kids and adults alike would have booked to play on over the weekend.
One other mum or dad stated: "Simply walked my canine down Palace Grounds, grass pitches have been completely playable."
While one other complained: "It encourages coaches to e book AstroTurf pitches and children choose up plenty of accidents they would not get on grass.
"The referee ought to make the choice on the day like in our time!"
SLC stated that regardless of the climate enhancing on Saturday, pitches have been unable to be lined within the days main as much as the weekend because of the horrible situations.
Head of amenities, waste and grounds, Kevin Carr, advised us: “Following heavy rainfall for a big a part of final week, we needed to take the choice to postpone soccer matches happening on our grass pitches on the weekend.
“Though climate situations improved on Saturday, lots of the pitches have been nonetheless waterlogged and most of them weren't in a position to be lined forward of the weekend.
“We recognise that this will likely have dissatisfied those that have been because of play on the parks, however we have now to consider the protection of these utilizing the pitches in addition to our personal workers who perform the liner work.
“When the pitches are so closely waterlogged any injury executed can imply it takes longer for them to recuperate, rising the time they're unfit to be used. To be completely clear, the choice had nothing to do with ‘cost-cutting’.”
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