MALVERN company Fleet Line Markers has scored a contract to paint a giant football pitch for BBC TV's Top Gear.
Fleet was commissioned to paint the double size pitch at a Leicestershire airfield for the filming of a car football match.
The results will be shown on BBC2 on Sunday (May 22), at 8pm, when Top Gear presenters James May and Richard Hammond stage a match involving a Toyota, a Mercedes and a Honda. The cars' bumpers were used to 'kick' a giant football around the pitch.
Steve Hayman, Fleet's sales manager, said: "Our guy went down there and marked out a huge great big football pitch then went back the next day to over mark it and make sure it was nice and bright for filming."
Winning the contract was no surprise, as the company has done plenty of other unusual television work.
A line-marker and paint from the firm featured on the opening sequence of Match of the Day last season. It also painted a giant eye logo above the Uffingham White Horse two years ago to advertise Big Brother.
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