MANCHESTER, England (AP) " The grass is getting greener in Spanish soccer. In an attempt to catch up with the financially dominant Premier League, Spain's top teams are coming up with new ways to promote the sport in their country and improve its global audience share. The league introduced an audio-visual rule for this season, forcing clubs to make their stadiums look better on TV if they wanted to cash in on Spain's improved broadcasting deals. If you look, in September in some of the stadiums, the grass was yellow. "You see La Liga and sometimes the light is good, sometimes not; some grass is green, some grass is yellow.

Source: New Zealand Herald September 26, 2016 14:37 UTC