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It's often said that one does not know what the other is doing, but at the Toulouse FC stadium over 1.5 million euros were spent to bring the pitch up to UEFA standards ahead of the Euro 2016 football championship, some matches of which will be played there. A new, more resilient pitch was laid, 66 metres wide, with a slope down from the pitch to the surrounds of about 27% (partly because the stadium is on an island in the Garonne, making the water table higher than normal). All very good. But Stade Toulousain, the city's rugby team, also play many of their big matches at the Stadium, which is bigger than their own Stade. Now the Stadium is "hors norms" for rugby matches, which demand a pitch of 68 metres and a maximum slope away of 1%.
One wonders why these things were not considered by both clubs and their associations before work began. It could mean no European Cup rugby (or World Cup if the next but one is in France) held in the country's rugby capital.
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