Artificial football pitches - made primarily of plastic - have several significant drawbacks that make them widely unpopular at elite level. Though the surfaces have improved dramatically since the ...

Find out the size details of a football pitch. Did you know that not all pitches are the same size? The length of a pitch must be between 100 yards (90m) and 130 yards (120m) and the width not less ...

"There is not enough space on the Island, so we had to build a football pitch in the middle of the sea," he says. A large vertical limestone cliff and hundreds of sprawling huts and shacks ...

QPR's pitch was later removed after England's Football Association banned plastic pitches in 1988 due to higher rates of injuries and inconsistent playability. In the US, athletes including NFL ...

Artificial football pitches - made primarily of plastic - have several significant drawbacks that make them widely unpopular at elite level. Though the surfaces have improved dramatically since ...