Scott Brown has voiced his concern that Scotland’s crucial World Cup qualifier against Lithuania on Friday night is to be played on a plastic pitch. The stadium in Vilnius which awaits Gordon Strachan’s team has an artificial playing surface, leaving Brown and a number of Scotland players scarcely relishing the prospect. Asked if he believed it was right that a key World Cup qualifier should be played on the surface, the Celtic captain replied: “Nope. There are probably folk over there playing five-a-sides on it right now. “We’ll deal with what we have to deal with, but sadly, we’ve got to play on the two astroturfs here [Kilmarnock and Hamilton] and then…

Source: The Times August 27, 2017 23:37 UTC