For organizers at a tournament like the European Championship, the less talk there is about the pitch, the better. Portugal coach Fernando Santos is concerned that the state of the grass at Marseille's Stade Velodrome could mean less of a spectacle when his team faces Poland on Thursday. France coach Didier Deschamps went as far as to call the Marseille pitch ''a disaster'' after players slipped during his team's group stage win over Albania. More...