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Artificial football pitches: Why are they hated and are they bad for health and environment?

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Artificial football pitches - made primarily of plastic - are widely unpopular at elite level.

They are made of stitched-together plastic fibres, typically polyethylene or polypropylene, placed on top of a base layer of rubber for shock absorption.

Dorking Wanderers have played on an artificial pitch since 2018 .

Jose Mourinho has blamed the surface after defender Gianluca Mancini was injured during a Europa Conference League match with Bodo/Glimt .

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75

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72

Neutral language

70

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informal

Language

English

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43

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not offensive

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medium-lived

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