It's boring because it's the same old circular argument that never goes anywhere, one side slags off the current generation as being pussies the other
Those arguments aren't genuine arguments imho, they're just statements made in bad faith and are ad hominem fallacies that completely ignore the relevant issue.
In my area last weekend I had 2 games called off, my game on Sunday apparently the pitch still had standing water at 0900 so the groundsman called it of (it was an afternoon kickoff). My wife and I went to watch her team play, probably no more than 2-3 miles from where my game would have been, and the pitch was fine.
Just one of those things I guess, you never know how the pitch reacts at times.
I had a local match which is notorious for being waterlogged, which is very frustrating for everyone involved. Yet, during our stormy weather back last year, theirs was the only game to be still on! Somehow the pitch drained for that one match absolutely perfectly, none of us could believe it!
Anyway, I saw in another topic re: Council pitches that it's 'health and safety' gone mad, and I disagree in part. Sure, there's a safety element that we're all meant to consider, but in my experience a lot of games are being called off by the council in order to try and preserve the pitch as well.
In other words, the pitch is playable but playing on it will do lasting damage that will impact on the rest of the season, so they call it off early. My local leagues had to start 1.5 months late because of the weather we had last year that impacted on the ground-quality - the council wanted to delay the season until October and officers of the league had to fight to get it commencing in reasonable time.
A lot of remarks on twitter put the council's decision down to funding cuts. If pitches aren't maintained regularly, they can't cope with the weather and then it just has more knock on effects. The council pitches I use have about 8 fields (I think), but the changing rooms are in disrepair, it's very old, there's a lot of maintenance needed and not enough money to do it... One or two clubs have moved away from them to secure better pitches and facilities. So, that'll be less revenue for the council I guess, ergo more disrepair, or higher pitch fees. Not ideal I guess. But this ends up being a political funding matter in the end.