World Cup mystery, strange green spots appear on England shirts (and it’s not the grass)

In the perfect organization expressed so far ai World Cup in Qatar however, there is a real flaw, and it was discovered in the most casual way possible. The England team did just that, noticing some strange stains on their white kits that appeared every time a match ended. So right after winning this allowed the Three Lions to reach the quarterfinals, by easily beating Senegal, a tremendous distrust and consequent controversy was born.

Several English players such as Jack Grealish and Jude Bellinghambut also Luke Shaw and Harry Kane himself noticed some strange stains on the uniforms. One, two, three: not the classics that occur at the end of the 90 minutes between interventions and slides, but something different that immediately caught the attention of those directly involved and was passed on to the media, with videos and photographs that immediately went viral on social media and the web.

But what’s so strange about these signs? The increasingly widespread feeling is that to give the feeling of the perfect pitch – also in favor of thousands of television stations around the world – in Qatar the fields are “paintings”. A trick that is not entirely new to the world of professional sports. and which is dictated by the need to always show an exemplary image. Thus, there are those who have also explained, going into the merits, that it would be a “trick” used for example in some golf courses, as is the case of the Augusta National tournament that takes place in Georgia where – then yes – without hiding, always fields are dyed to make them even more green and even.

The point is that in football nobody could have expected such a situation and when the England team revealed the “Augsburg Trick”, as they have now renamed it at home, FIFA itself has risen to the chair to defend its work and categorically deny the use of the practice already used in golf. The only official admission of theuse of color is to mark the edge of football pitches, in warm-up areas where green paint was used. A half admission that perhaps hides an embarrassing truth: the answer to upcoming matches and the next suspicious signs on uniforms.