Pitch battle holds key to Hibs ground share with Edinburgh

Football and rugby can co-exist at Easter Road but somebody must pay for a high-tech surface, Paul Forsyth reports
Steven Pressley, the former Coventry City manager, has warned that a ground-sharing arrangement between Hibernian and Edinburgh’s professional rugby team will only work if a new hi-tech playing surface is laid at Easter Road.

A hybrid pitch that is part-natural, part-synthetic is, he says, essential if longstanding negotiations between Hibernian and the Scottish Rugby Union, reported in The Times yesterday, are to succeed where they have previous failed.

Pressley was in charge …