Pro 5

If you’re familiar with the Pro 5 facilities down in Brislington, this is similar but a lot newer and thus more up-​to-​date. If you’re not, it’s essentially a big complex that houses 10+ 5-​a-​side football courts, on which different leagues are run on different days of the week.
The major improvement over Brislington is the state of the art pitches, which are made of spongey rubber ‘grass’ covered with a layer of small black balls (which will still be falling out of your trainers in a month’s time) to help prevent injury. What doesn’t help prevent injury is the attitude of some of the players, a lot of whom seem to want to make up for a lack of talent with extra ‘enthusiasm’.
This puts me off a little if I’m honest, and I’ve preferred the times I’ve played friendlies up here with a bunch of mates (you can hire a court for yourself if you want), though it can’t be denied that the facilities themselves are top of the table stuff.