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It's an issue lots of teams have been facing this season muddy, mucky pitches.

Thanks to more rain than usual, many grassroots clubs have been cancelling lots of matches because pitches are too waterlogged to play on.

The Football Foundation a charity funded by the Premier League, the FA and UK government says that having a waterlogged pitch is the number one problem clubs have.

EmmaLouise went to speak to players from grassroots team the Stockport Vikings to find out more about what it's been like.

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