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Re: Zip ties?

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Originally Posted by Mark McLeod View Post
Interestingly, the official playing field is held together to some extent with zipties...
Including attaching the chain to the goals. (See document GE-10062 in the game specific drawings found here)

At the Manchester kickoff, each of the four goals had broken zip ties and chain dangling over the goal after having the ball thrown at them a few times. This changed the ball's reaction to hitting the chain pretty drastically.
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