They Used to Play on Grass is a 1972 novel by former English footballer Terry Venables and Scottish author Gordon Williams. The novel predicted the end of grass as a playing surface, and that plastic pitches would become the norm in football. In 2003 the book was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novel".[1]
^"BBC – The Big Read". BBC. April 2003, Retrieved 31 October 2012
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