Preston North End F.C.

Preston North End Football Club is a professional English football team. It currently (2004-2005) plays in the Football League Championship.

Plastic Pitch

Preston introduced a controversial plastic pitch in the late 1980s, a move as unpopular with the fans as it was with visiting teams. The pitch was used for the last time against Torquay at the end of the 1993-4 season in the second leg of the play-off semi-finals. Losing 2-0 from the first leg, North End needed to score four goals after Torquay scored an early goal at Deepdale. Seconds from the final whistle Paul Raynor hit North End's fourth to clinch a place at Wembley, where North End went down 4-2 to Wycombe Wanderers despite an impressive overhead kick by Ian Bryson. The plastic pitch was ripped up by thousands of excited North End fans after the semi-final, who grabbed the opportunity to take a piece of history home.

Related Topics:
Torquay - Wycombe Wanderers

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