{"id":447235,"date":"2026-02-26T19:59:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/447235\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T19:59:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:59:16","slug":"kings-lynn-town-fans-have-say-on-clubs-pitch-sprinkler-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/447235\/","title":{"rendered":"King&#8217;s Lynn Town fans have say on club&#8217;s pitch sprinkler row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;I think the club might be using this to their benefit, as almost to say, whoever it is has leaked this (the CCTV image) to do us harm. So let&#8217;s stick together and come out the other side of this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fixture against South Shields at Lynn&#8217;s stadium, The Walks, on 14 February was called off the day before because of the wet conditions, with the club announcing: &#8220;Due to a high amount of rainfall and insufficient drainage, our pitch has too much sitting water and has become waterlogged.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Subsequently, an anonymous source released a CCTV image of a sprinkler in operation on the pitch on the morning of 13 February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Long-term Lynn supporter Mark Hearle, who was the club&#8217;s press officer for more than 15 years, said the incident remained a mystery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s quirky in the wrong way for King&#8217;s Lynn Town. I just think for the club it&#8217;s a shambolic mess really, that&#8217;s my view on it,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t stand the club at all in a very good light.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He added: &#8220;I think the club might be using this to their benefit, as almost to say, whoever&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-447235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}