Quote Originally Posted by WTF11 View Post
I have no experience in that area, but I suspect its a case as you say, or accepting (via waiver or some other mechanism), that you play wherever and whatever surface, as long as the ground is "certified" by the relevant authorities. We have played on some right ploughed fields, even in the recent past, not only back in the Revie days.
Always used to be a simple case of the referee deciding if a pitch is fit to play on or not?