Editing Deepdale (section)

===Plastic pitch===
In 1986, Preston North End decided to lay an all-weather pitch to try to generate some extra income for the club by renting the pitch to local teams to play on, to reduce the number of postponed matches as well as enabling the use of the Deepdale pitch as a training ground. {{citation needed|date=November 2014}} It was one of four football stadiums in the English league to feature a plastic pitch, but this proved to be unpopular with the fans and was finally ripped up in 1994, by which time it was the last remaining plastic pitch in the English league.<ref>{{cite news|last=Fletcher|first=Paul|title=Could artificial pitches be set for a return to Football League?|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/15722636.stm|work=BBC Sport|access-date=22 November 2011|date=18 November 2011}}</ref>