I don't think you guess the main reason.ORIGINAL: warspite1
warspite1ORIGINAL: Orm
Football is stupid. Or rather, Swedish football is stupid.
A majority of the top league teams play their matches on artificial, plastic, turf. The winner is likely to be a team who has only played 6 matches on grass this season. One of the tree teams that can still win the title is a plastic pitch specialists who can not win on grass. Bah.
(6 out of 16 top league teams play on grass)
Mmmmmm..... I can understand why Sweden would want plastic pitches but....
In many parts they claim it is because of the weather. But that is usually not the truth. The truth is that Swedish teams are poor and do not have their own pitch. The district, or municipality, owns the pitch and they want the pitch to be used for more than a few football matches. And plastic can be used a lot without any extra expense. In Stockholm, for example, the two current top teams, plays on the same arena owned by the city and it has a plastic pitch. But previously both teams had their own arena and both had grass. Keeping a grass pitch has become easier, and cheaper, and yet we get fewer grass pitches every year.
