Think out of the box.
Work round it and curl it if it works - in other words, bend it like Beckham.
If a standard football pitch cannot be built, an asymmetrical pitch, like this one amid high-rise apartment buildings in the densely-inhabited Klong Toey district in Bangkok, will do.
Created and developed by a Thai real estate designer, it is part of a project aimed at transforming small, irregularly-shaped plots in the Thai capital's well-known slum community into practical football fields - and taking the place of what would have otherwise been used as dumping areas.