So many games postponed tonight?
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Only Arsenal and MU games are still on, the rest postponed...so sianz...
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also bo bian
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boring tonight. sg pools got many refunds tommorrow eh, due to matches postponed.
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Just wondering if the weather continues or even worsens for a few weeks, what's gonna happen? Massive massive traffic jam in April, May???
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i think they will prolong the season then.
but wc2010 at june, so i dont know
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Seven Premier League games called off
January 8, 2010
Seven Premier League weekend fixtures have fallen victim to the adverse weather conditions enveloping England, with Wolves' match at West Ham the latest to be called off.
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The English elements hit football
Chelsea's game at Hull, Liverpool's clash with Tottenham, Aston Villa's game at Wigan, Fulham's game against Portsmouth, Stoke's trip to Burnley and Sunderland's fixture against Bolton at the Stadium of Light have also been postponed.
Wigan decided to call off their match against Villa at the DW Stadium at 8.30am on Saturday morning after a pitch inspection by referee Stuart Attwell.
A statement on the club's official website read: "Wigan Athletic have been forced to postpone this afternoon's Barclays Premier League match against Aston Villa after the undersoil heating at the DW Stadium failed late yesterday, Friday.
"Engineers spent most of the evening on site attempting to repair the fault but have not been successful, with the problem necessitating parts which were not available at such short notice."
The big freeze has wreaked havoc with the fixture list in England this weekend with the lower leagues also badly hit - not a single match will be played League Two or the Conference.
The Premier League fixture list had remained intact until Friday morning when the game between Fulham and Portsmouth at Craven Cottage was the first to be postponed.
A club statement read: "Saturday's Premier League fixture against Portsmouth at the Cottage has been postponed due to the adverse weather conditions which are not expected to improve over the next 24 hours.
"The safety of supporters is of paramount importance to the club and following an inspection of the areas surrounding Craven Cottage on Friday morning it was deemed unsafe for fans to travel.''
Burnley then announced that their game against Stoke City at Turf Moor will not be going ahead due to safety reasons before Bolton's trip to Sunderland was also called off.
Liverpool requested that their game with Spurs was also postponed "for safety reasons" and by Friday afternoon the clash had been cancelled, along with Chelsea's match with Hull at the KC Stadium.
Birmingham have said that their pitch is completely playable ahead of their match against Manchester United on Saturday evening but, as with all games, there is a doubt about the pavements around the ground.
Meanwhile, Manchester United have rearranged their home game with Hull City for Saturday, January 23. The game should have been played at the end of the month but was postponed due to the rescheduling of the Carling Cup semi-finals.
Source:
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=722250&sec=england&cc=4716
West Ham and Wolverhampton tml's match also abandoned. =X -
I thought they have heating beneath the grass????
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they say for the security of the travelling fans so cancel lor!
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Man City versus Blackburn match will be postponed to Tuesday 4am. The rest, not sure though.
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Originally posted by Poignant:
i think they will prolong the season then.
but wc2010 at june, so i dont know
If never prolong the season, there will be a hectic schedule for those affected teams on around March and April for their make-up matches.Don't really understand why England encountered such problems of snowing weather. In the past, most of matches won't affect and still continued.