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 ...

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 Whites returned to training at Real Madrid City to prepare for their 29th and penultimate LaLiga match, against UDCA Tenerife at the ... a game on a reduced-size pitch.

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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 ...

AN INCREDIBLE nine-bed mansion, boasting its own football pitch, has hit the market - but there's a catch. The impressive £3.5 million estate near Cardiff has three kitchens, an orchard and stables.

is the birthplace of football now claims to have discovered the world’s oldest known football pitch - and it's north of the border. Ged O’Brien, a former president of the Association of Sports ...

A sports historian behind the claims that Scotland invented football says he has found the world’s oldest known pitch there. Ged O’Brien, who has campaigned for years for England to be ...

Police lockdown." One Facebook user said on a local expat site: "It happened on the slip road down towards Finca Naundrup outside Club del Sol. My son was at the football pitch from 8pm when I ...

Two new football pitches in Ashfield have been given the go-ahead by the council. Ashfield District Council’s backed its own planning application at a meeting on Thursday, April 17. Plans will ...

A children's football pitch has been damaged by a group of 'aggressive' travellers who forced their way in and are refusing to leave. At least six vehicles including trucks, motorhomes and a ...