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 ...

“We kept playing and found a way to win, and that’s what football is about ... play Owen Scholes took a pitch to the end zone. In less than two minutes, Sunset had cut its deficit from ...

Herman doesn’t consider himself a groundhopper, but his early career covering several football teams took him to many pitches. He stopped keeping score long ago, but estimates he’s been to mor ...

Football’s pitch markings are taken for granted, as you’d expect considering they’ve been this way for 86 years in the world’s most popular sport. But those markings are, in various ways ...

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 ...

If not, what is the best solution? Female footballers might need 'different pitch type' to cut injury risk Most top-tier football pitches are now hybrid, which means they are essentially a ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

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.

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 ...