Asking a Full-Time Pitch Tester: How He Identified the Real Cause Behind 4 Ligament Injuries
When a cluster of ligament injuries kept happening on the same pitch, everyone assumed the surface was to blame. In this interview, Raw Stadia's full-time pitch tester Owen explains how consistent playing surface data — from planning to reporting — helped trace the real cause back to boot selection, not the pitch. An inside look at full-time pitch testing and everything it protects.