They had appealed for supporters to stay off the pristine playing surface at full-time, though that was always likely to prove wishful thinking.
Tottenham's training ground is impressive, a vast expanse of pristine playing fields, restaurants and players' recreational areas, which include a cinema.
The near incessant rain in England over the winter had reduced the normally pristine playing surface at Franklin's Gardens to a heavy bog and the pitch would again play a part when Saints won an attacking line-out.
What results is not always pristine: the playing included moments of shaky intonation, as well as instances of rough ensemble in some of the more treacherous passages of the demanding C sharp minor Quartet.
The story of the scowling, scheming, domineering, silently sinister Vice-President and the spoiled, petted prince who becomes his plaything is irresistible — set in a pristine White House, played against an ominous, unseen background of violence and catastrophe, like distant thunder, and packed with drama, palace intrigue, and black comedy.
One of those independent schools, Eltham College, has a famous Olympic link in that one of its alumni is Eric Liddell of Chariots of Fire fame – and its pristine pitches will play host to Ryan Giggs and the rest of the British football team before they play at Wembley.
Graeme Smith could be seen striding massively around the outfield in pristine whites before play and he is out there opening the batting along with Rory Burns on a pitch that has less a tinge, more a flush of green about it.
One recent morning, as he conferred with building supervisors on the library roof, college students dressed in pristine white decorously played cricket in a park in front of it.
The recording is clean but not as robust as Longhair's best-recorded album, Rock and Roll Gumbo, though with Fess's raw singing and galloping style of playing, pristine fidelity does seem beside the point.
True, Pete Donnelly is from the Boston-based Figgs, but he also plays in the Candy Butchers, the ensemble Mike Viola assembled to play his pristine, Marshall Crenshaw-style pop.
