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 ...

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 ...

Sports historian Ged O'Brien's claim suggests a field near Anwoth Kirk in Scotland could be the world's oldest football pitch, indicating structured football in the 1600s. Evidence from Reverend ...

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A field in the Scottish countryside near the Solway Firth was likely the world’s oldest football pitch, a historian has claimed. The farmland near Anwoth Kirk in modern-day Dumfries and Galloway ...

A Staffordshire football club is making history through the installation of a state-of-the-art pitch that features the same technology used at a new Premier League stadium. Hednesford Town will ...

A new £900,000 all-weather 3G pitch has opened at a Nottinghamshire football club. The state-of-the-art facility also has new floodlights - meaning matches and training sessions at Calverton Miners ...

A new £900,000 all-weather 3G pitch has opened at a Nottinghamshire football club. The state-of-the-art facility also has new floodlights - meaning matches and training sessions at Calverton ...

The second artificial pitch will provide much-needed capacity to grow youth teams, expand women’s and girls’ football, and offer more community programmes, according to a cabinet report.

Grassroots sport facilities including football pitches and swimming pools would be protected from closure under a new bill to be introduced today. Labour and Co-op MP Emma Foody is to introduce ...