Category: Product News

  • Have you checked your cricket sight screens and wicket covers?

    Have you checked your cricket sight screens and wicket covers?

    It’s been a long, cold winter! As the mild weather starts to slowly move in, now is a good time to start checking the condition of outdoor grounds furniture, such as cricket sight screens and wicket covers. If your sight screen or cover hasn’t fared so well over the winter or has simply just reached…

  • Flicx Cricket Pitches now available at sportsequip.co.uk

    Flicx Cricket Pitches now available at sportsequip.co.uk

    Flicx cricket pitches are now available to order at sportsequip.co.uk! Cricket surfaces have long been a sportsequip.co.uk speciality. Therefore we’re delighted to now offer a range of Flicx cricket pitches, an affordable and easy way to turn almost any level surface into a cricket pitch. Flicx pitches provide consistent bounce and allow batsmen to play…

  • Harrod UK’s Team Shelter range updated for 2013

    Harrod UK’s Team Shelter range updated for 2013

    We’re excited to announce the arrival of Harrod UK’s updated 2013 range of Team Shelters.

  • FA Changes to Small Sided Football Goals and Pitch Dimensions

    FA Changes to Small Sided Football Goals and Pitch Dimensions

    We’ve posted previously about the new 9v9 football goals that are part of the Football Assocation’s Youth Development Review. Today, we’ll take a closer look at the other upcoming changes, including the recommended pitch dimensions and goal sizes for youth football. The aim of the FA’s Youth Development Review was to create a clearer pathway for…

  • Introducing… Spinfire Pro 2 Tennis Ball Machines

    Introducing… Spinfire Pro 2 Tennis Ball Machines

    For many years, Lobster dominated the tennis ball machine market in the UK with their Elite range of products. But today a number of competitors have upped their game and now produce ball machines that rival Lobsters both on terms of quality, number of features and price. The Spinfire Pro 2 is one such example…

  • Courtscreen – Tennis Sight Screens / Court Shades now available

    Courtscreen – Tennis Sight Screens / Court Shades now available

    We’re  always on the lookout for new products to offer at sportsequip.co.uk. A few days ago, we introduced Courtscreen – a product manufactured by Edwards Sports Products that provides shading and sight screening to tennis courts that have suitable surround fencing. Courtscreen also adds a small element of privacy and helps block out distractions from nearby…

  • Harrod UK Football Goals at the National Football Centre

    Harrod UK Football Goals at the National Football Centre

    The FA’s National Football Centre at St. George’s Park officially opens today. The project may have cost over £100m and be opening later than originally hoped, but we have to admit that the facilities look fantastic. The new National Football Centre offers 12 full size pitches with a variety of surfaces, an altitude chamber, training…

  • New Edwards Sports 9 v 9 Football Goals Now Available

    New Edwards Sports 9 v 9 Football Goals Now Available

    In the 2012 Football Association Youth Development Review, proposals were made aimed at improving the game at every level of the sport. Part of this review made changes to the progression of younger players through the game – enabling younger players to use more appropriately sized pitches and goals that are better suited to their…

  • Football Matches Cancelled Due to Incorrect Goal Post Installation

    Football Matches Cancelled Due to Incorrect Goal Post Installation

    Here’s a recent story from BBC News that caught our eye:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-19685784 The importance of correct installation of football goal posts, or any sports equipment for that matter, cannot be emphasised enough. Large pieces of sports equipment, such as football and rugby posts, have been involved in fatal accidents in the past so it’s good to…