Paul Burgess (groundskeeper)
Paul Burgess (born 1978) is an English groundskeeping, groundskeeper who specialises in turf management of football pitches. He is recognised as the world leader in turf management, and has won five Premier League Groundsman of the Year awards and accolades from the Institute of Groundsmanship. Early life In 1992, after realising he did not have the ability to make it as a professional footballer, a 14-year-old Burgess explored other avenues of becoming involved with the sport. He read an interview with Arsenal F.C.'s head groundsman Steve Braddock, in either ''Shoot (football magazine), Shoot!'' or ''Match magazine, Match'' magazines, which led him to find out if his upcoming internship, work experience stint could be served at his local professional club, Blackpool F.C. Burgess attended Montgomery Academy, Bispham, Montgomery High School in Bispham, Blackpool, Bispham between 1989 and 1994. He then studied a three-year turf management course at Myerscough College in Bilsborrow ...
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Blackpool
Blackpool is a seaside resort in Lancashire, England. Located on the North West England, northwest coast of England, it is the main settlement within the Borough of Blackpool, borough also called Blackpool. The town is by the Irish Sea, between the River Ribble, Ribble and River Wyre, Wyre rivers, and is north of Liverpool and northwest of Manchester. At the 2011 United Kingdom census, 2011 census, the Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority of Blackpool had an estimated population of 139,720 while the urban settlement had a population of 147,663, making it the List of settlements in Lancashire by population, most populous settlement in Lancashire, and the fifth-most populous in North West England after Manchester, Liverpool, Bolton and Warrington. The Blackpool Urban Area, wider built-up area (which also includes additional settlements outside the unitary authority) had a population of 239,409, making it the fifth-most populous urban area in the North West after t ...
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