Croke Park groundsman hits back at Jim Gavin's criticism

Croke Park’s head groundsman has hit back at Jim Gavin for his criticism of the stadium’s pitch in last month’s drawn All-Ireland final.

The Dublin manager said the surface could not deal with the rainfall that day. “We had two and a half millimetres of rain the last day on the pitch and if it’s anything around that level of rain, probably because it’s rolled so much and the grass is cut so tight, about 30 millimetres I think, it makes it very slippy and it makes it very difficult, for both teams, for Mayo and Dublin.

“That’s the evidence that you can see anyway. You just have to get on with it. You can’t control that.”