{"id":680013,"date":"2026-01-07T13:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T13:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/680013\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T13:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T13:39:10","slug":"heated-cover-used-to-stop-luton-town-football-pitch-freezing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/680013\/","title":{"rendered":"Heated cover used to stop Luton Town football pitch freezing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It has been in place since Monday evening. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The EFL said in order to &#8220;safeguard&#8221; earlier televised kick-offs between November and March, a pitch cover was loaned to clubs to &#8220;protect against waterlogging and frozen pitches&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In consultation with EFL and host club a decision to activate callout based upon weather forecast, pitch history, conditions, shaded areas, likely temperatures, wind chill is made between all parties&#8221;, it said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was also used to ensure Lincoln City&#8217;s 5-2 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx2x4wyz50wo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">home win against<\/a> Peterborough went ahead. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Met Office &#8211; the UK&#8217;s national weather service &#8211; has issued <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cr4k601p7q3o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a yellow warning<\/a> for heavy snow for parts of the East of England from Thursday evening until midday on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has been in place since Monday evening. The EFL said in order to &#8220;safeguard&#8221; earlier televised kick-offs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-680013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115854099233308440","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}