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 ...

Women’s football is putting player safety at risk with the standard of pitches, the Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) has said. The playing surface for top-level matches has been the ...