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[afc1903mad]

To me a fake pitch was blaze so I'm not that up to date on them.

What's all this "pellet" carry on?
I've never heard of that before.

Modern artificial pitches have advanced a lot since the blaze style.
A good 4G pitch is very good (for the amateur / semi professional), don;t know if it makes a difference to professionals.

The black rubber pellets are on the pitch to provide more "give" when players are changing direction.

Incidentally

“One of the things we know about Spain and France and Germany and others who are good at football is that they have a lot more artificial grass pitches than we have,”

I would say that if they are to be used, there should be a more stringent basis of the quality utilised.

[Pacman1903]

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The black rubber pellets are on the pitch to provide more "give" when players are changing direction.


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And potentially give you cancer

Plenty of cases in America opened up. I'm sure I started a thread on it a few years back.

[donsdaft]

Fitba should be played on grass.

Or, as an alternative, grass.

[RED_JOHN]

A bit of useless information for the pellet debaters amongst us...black pellets are a lot cheaper than the green ones which should really be used on these artificial surfaces.

[RED_JOHN]

Fitba should be played on grass.

Or, as an alternative, grass.

Totally agree. I have always thought that playing football on a tarmac surface covered with a carpet is madness.

[afc1903mad]

And potentially give you cancer

Plenty of cases in America opened up. I'm sure I started a thread on it a few years back.

Interesting, I did not know that.
My son is constantly coming back with rubber pellets in his boots / socks

[Pacman1903]

Interesting, I did not know that.
My son is constantly coming back with rubber pellets in his boots / socks

Two goalkeepers have multimillion dollar cases in court just now but there are many more. The theory is keepers are more at risk

Its do with the crumb rubber being made from recycled tyres which have toxic chemicals

Can of worms if its proven

SPFL fake pitches
Killie
Hamilton
Livi
Alloa
Queen of The South
Falkirk
Airdrie
Montrose
East Fife
Raith Rovers
Forfar
Stenhousemuir
Annan
Clyde
Edinburgh City(Play at Spartans Ainslie Park)

Then you have Sevcove in the HFL looking to go up and 5 of the top 6 of the LL last season Spartans, East Kilbride, BSC Glasgow(Recreation Park), East Stirling(Falkirk Stadium)Cumbernauld Colts (Broadwood) meaning there is a fair chance of another getting up