Rangers boss Steven Gerrard says it is time the Scottish Professional Football League started listening to its players and outlawed ‘dangerous’ plastic pitches.
Union chiefs from PFA Scotland have revealed a petition signed by every player from the nine top-flight clubs with grass surfaces demanding synthetic turf is banned in the Ladbrokes Premiership.
The move is set to be fiercely resisted by the three top-flight clubs who play on plastic – Kilmarnock, Hamilton and Livingston – but Gerrard’s views will not shift.
Jamie Murphy is only just returning to light training after the Ibrox winger suffered a serious knee injury on Killie’s Rugby Park pitch back in August and is only expected back in the final weeks of the season.
Now Gerrard claims that as well as putting players at risk, the artificial pitches are also a major turn-off to the new recruits he is trying to lure to Govan.