11.   The turf trend has also spread to Chicago, where the Park District recently installed three artificial turf soccer pitches.

12.   The soccer pitches remain jammed and will surely stay that way, but available baskets seem equally hard to come by.

13.   There are several five-a-side soccer pitches, floodlighted, with fierce competition taking place and eager crowds.

14.   These buildings are interspersed with well-kept homes, soccer pitches and schools.

15.   When you find yourself on a soccer pitch, going at full bore, scoring a goal is easier said than done.

16.   Britain has rediscovered its national sporting pride, with landmark victories in the boxing ring, on the soccer pitch and the cricket ground.

17.   Even so, a kind of score settling with Japan on the soccer pitch would be sweet.

18.   Four huge bronze busts of President Saddam Hussein sit atop stone palaces where lawns ten times the size of a soccer pitch are planted with trees and flowers.

19.   On the soccer pitch, meanwhile, a game Sunday between Indonesia and the Philippines had to be temporarily halted until the fans calmed down.

20.   The aerial photographs taken by the U.S. government also showed patches of freshly disturbed earth on the soccer pitch, suggesting the presence of mass graves.