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18th October 2016
04:40pm BST

In a bid to deal with their injury hoodoo, Arsenal installed an ‘AirFibr’ pitch at London Colney in April.
Paris-based firm Natural Grass make the pitch and they claim the all-weather resistant turf can reduce the risk of players picking up knocks by up to 40%. How they landed on that figure is anyone's guess, but this claim has been verified by Prof. P. Rouch from the Arts & Metiers ParisTech biomechanics Laboratory.
Arsenal had been testing the hybrid grass technology on their goalkeeper area for nearly two years before opting to resurface their 58-hectare HQ with the turf.
The Gunners are the first Premier League club to introduce the technology, but West Ham have also recently made the switch as well. Real Madrid and Lyon also installed the pitch at their respective training grounds.
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