Former Blues chairman David Sheepshanks wants to take Town’s award-winning groundsman Alan Ferguson to St George’s Park, the FA’s National Football Centre at Burton, according to a report this morning. Sheepshanks, who is due to step down from some of his roles at Town, the Football League and the FA in the summer, is the chair of the project.

Ferguson, Groundsman of the Year on five occasions while with the Blues, has been at Portman Road for 14 years, having previously worked at the St Andrews golf course and at Rangers.

The Scot, who previously turned down the job of groundsman at the new Wembley, is also a non-executive director of Support in Sport, a company which works with both natural and synthetic pitches in the UK and Europe.

He has taken on consultancy roles around the globe, including a trip to the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola last year.

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