Plastic or grass

Your illustrious captain started playing hockey when he was 13 years old. It was on grass and we played the 2-3-5 formation (that's 5 upfront!!) and there was even offside. OFFSIDE? I hear you say. Yes that's right, you were offside in a similiar way to offside in football but only in the opposition's 22.

And the green stuff we played on was called grass. Sometimes very muddy and always very bouncy! Nowadays we play on the artificial stuff and the game of hockey has adapted very well to it.

So if a bunch of blokes that come together, pay for the privelege and have a lot of fun and win games, I'm pretty sure that 11 overpaid nancy boys can do it too. They have ALL played on artificial pitches before as practically all the top clubs have one of these new generation pitches that look like grass, feel like grass but are plastic.

Let's hope we have a bit more faith in ourselves to win away on a plastic pitch than England did on Wednesday night!!