Chelsea owner Todd Boehly has fired the club’s head of groundsman Jason Griffin after over 30 years of service.
The exit of Griffin is the latest among many other recent axing of backroom staff that
the American chief has undertaken since joining the club.
According to Daily mail, Griffin’s assistant and son, Reisse, who himself had worked at Stamford Bridge for over a decade was also affected by the development.
While Griffin had been at Chelsea for more than three decades, he became the Blues’ head groundsman in 2003.
He has since been responsible for leading a team to oversee playing surfaces at Stamford Bridge, the club’s Cobham training ground and the women’s and youth teams’ pitches at Kingsmeadow.
He infamously made the headlines in April 2008 when he clashed with Manchester United defender Patrice Evra and former Red Devils fitness coach Tony Strudwick.
As Griffin started to work on the pitch after Chelsea defeated United 2-1, Evra barged into him before Strudwick engaged in a row.
He would later come out of the FA investigation favourably for how he acted in the row
The FA commission said in their statement : “We broadly prefer Mr Griffin’s account. We were favourably impressed by Mr Griffin as a witness, who came across as frank, calm and sensible. Mr Strudwick, we found less reliable.”