The beautiful pitch at Sporting Park has not been so lovely lately with huge chunk and strips coming up all over the field.
Sporting Park is known for being one of the best stadiums in MLS and compares well with stadiums around the world but one frequent issue has been the playing surface. At its best the field is the best soccer surface in the Midwest but at its worst it the field breaks up in chunks.
Kansas City gets the benefit of all extremes of weather. At the recent US Gold Cup game at Sporting Park, some of the national media complained that the coldest (MLS Cup 2013) and the hottest (the US game) they ever attended were in the same stadium.