UpFront: Are artificial pitches the answer as grass takes a hammering?

Back in 1972, future England football manager Terry Venables co-wrote 'They Used to Play on Grass', a novel predicting the wholesale use of artificial sports pitches. Fifty years on, there are a few of them about - but is it time for far more? Traditionalists like turf, and better technology and knowledge means snooker-table surfaces can be m