Omniturf is a sand-filled second-generation
artificial turf, the first artificial surface to be used by an English
Football League club. The first club to install this 'plastic grass' surface was
Queens Park Rangers who installed the new pitch for the start of the 1981/82 season. Despite much publicity around the supposed unfair advantage the pitch would provide Rangers, they proceeded to lose the opening home Division Two match on the new surface by 1-2 against
Luton Town.