Should plastic pitches be allowed in professional football?

[Miyazaki]

Looking at the football pitch in Moscow, surely this shouldn't be allowed in this day and age?

I remember England played there a little while ago and this certainly gives a massive advantage to the home team.

Do you think that if teams can't manager a grass surface they should be allowed to play professional football?

Maybe the Russian league should play from spring til autumn instead?

[LFC_SL]

Well the reverse side of the argument is that a professional football club, and one of the established Premier League ones at that, should take the necessary precautions to train on such a surface. That and not play a C team so their fans can make excuses

The Russian league is already timed so it fits with the seasons and the real winter conditions they experience. However there is not much they can do about European club competitions and when they are held
Furthermore I imagine it would be a nightmare to get grass pitches to recover and grow in the short time between the end of winter and the start of the new season

[plazmoid]

Yeah, the russian league already runs from spring to autumn i think. I think plastic pitches should not be used in proffesional football as you learn as a kid playing on grass, you will more than likely train on grass and should always play on grass. After a russian winter i think you will still have more grass than how much is left at Fir Park in Motherwell!!

[Garthur]

Originally Posted by plazmoid

Yeah, the russian league already runs from spring to autumn i think. I think plastic pitches should not be used in proffesional football as you learn as a kid playing on grass, you will more than likely train on grass and should always play on grass. After a russian winter i think you will still have more grass than how much is left at Fir Park in Motherwell!!

Thats not our fault though, well it is but but it shouldn't be.

Its that money grabbing Boyle we have who said he would get the park dug up before the start of this season and everything fixed.

I'm happy with our possible fine but if we had been fined more and deducted points....Well I would have been fine with that too. But the only reason its getting so much heat from people just now is because of Celtic, its been like that for weeks/months now.

[hufartd]

Originally Posted by Garthur

Its that money grabbing Boyle

Is that the same guy that threw 11million of his own money towards Fir park.

[Jonny1973]

Lots of Premiership teams (Chelsea, Man City, Liverpool, Newcastle, Arsenal, Villa) already have artificial FieldTurf pitches at their training facilities.

http://www.fieldturf.com/soccer/highProfile.cfm

[derby4life]

come on guy's there's just no need for them...look at the state of most pitches now around most divisions they are as a rule pretty good

remember the baseball ground ....we were lucky if there was one blade of grass on there

[The Joker]

i don't think this would be very good because the underdogs need all the help they can get when playing the big teams and it adds to the event in my opinion.

[tradeyourstuff]

i remember the days when i think it was luton town used to have a plastic pitch - didnt really give them much of an advantage though!!