Maybe we haven't gone far enough down the artificial pitch route. The game should go one further and introduce i-concrete pitches. This way, the clubs can use their pitches as public car parks during the week. Better still, why not consider the i-supermarket pitch. Build a supermarket on each ground, then on Sunday afternoon, move all the shelves to the side & play on the tiles.
Surely the opinion of, and welfare of, the players regarding the pitch should take precedent with this.
If it's almost inevitable that the players is going to come off the pitch at the end of the game with, what would be on a normal pitch, unnecessary and avoidable carpet burns, how is that going to attract people to want to play the game? Grass has served RL well for over 100 years and, from what I can see, to date no one has come up with a better surface. Cuts and grazes are part and parcel of the game, but at least on a grass surface, a player has at least a chance of coming off the pitch without them.
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