synthetic nature, roll-up pastoral, breathable materials, sweat, physio, offside, the art of garden maintenance, “track and field” but as verbs, chalk lines on the ground, 4-4-2, 5/7 a side and other polygons, William Carlos Williams’ poem ‘Lines’, Timothy Morton sipping on soylent and winking to the camera, the irrigation grid but only for show, changing rooms, football parents in minivans, the dualism ‘home/away’, the garden section of the DIY store, the outdoors indoors, your cat trying to eat a leaf off a plastic ficus, that episode of The Apprentice (current season) where Daniel leads the makeover of the rooftop bar and puts synthetic grass ON THE BAR TOP, foam bricks, bars and hoops, ‘match point’, bruised knees, fantasy football, football fantasy, the keeper of the goal, hyperobjects, soft-looking but rough-feeling, green shreds, the base of the ball, models and tactics, plotting green, the mid-field condition, the ubiquitous torn ACL, belle & sebastian in vintage sportswear, soundtrack to fifa sports games, locker politics, plastic eclogues, the game buffering, steroids, grass on steroids, the PE kit, PES, the commentator, to strain, plastic suburbia, etc.

Contributors: Fred Spoliar, Ottavia Silvestri, Aea Varfis-van Warmelo, Louis Fabrice Tshimanga, Desdemona Desideria, Frank Roger, Josie Rogers, Jack Bigglestone, Nasim Lucazaj, Patrick Romero McCafferty, koolkatwarner, Michael Rennie, Colette O'Connor, Aleksandr Plisetsky, Laura Glancy, Robert Beveridge, Marzia D'Amicio, Daniel Uncapher, Andrew Fentham, Luke Thurogood, Rhiannon Auriol, Dan Power, Den Staf, Joshua Alexander, William Fleming, Rory O'Brien, Stuart Rawlinson, Google Reviews. Editors: Denise Bonetti, Maria Sledmere, Max Parnell.