England has been cold this month. This shouldn't be breaking news for anyone; it is, after all, January in northern Europe.
Yet for those who tuned in Sunday intending to feast upon s clash with they would have been surprised to see the players slipping and crashing on the frozen Kingsmeadow pitch. Well, for slightly less than five minutes at least.
There was confusion in the commentary box and at Kingsmeadow before the boos began to ring out: .
After the match, across the league, but there's nothing to stop Chelsea, who own their Kingsmeadow home, from installing one.
It wouldn't even have been the first time this season that a Brighton home game was sodden playing surface.
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