Fixtures fall victim to cold snap

The cold snap hit the Scottish Football League on Saturday with several fixtures falling foul of the weather.

Ayr's home clash with Partick in Division One is off, while the Division Two clashes between Cowdenbeath and Arbroath, Dumbarton and Alloa and Stirling and Stenhousemuir are also postponed.

In Division Three, Livingston's visit to Annan and Forfar's clash with Berwick were all off.

In England, the Coca-Cola Championship matches at Cardiff and Blackpool were the highest-profile casualties of the recent snowfall as their matches against Leicester and West Brom respectively were postponed.

Both fixtures were subject to pitch inspections this morning and neither were able the pass the officials' tests with more matches set to fall by the wayside and join numerous earlier postponements.

The Championship match between Scunthorpe and Ipswich had been postponed earlier on Saturday morning.

Wycombe turned to their supporters in a bid to save their League One fixture at home to Oldham. Wanderers hoped to salvage their match with the help of their fans at Adams Park, asking them to turn up with shovels, and later confirmed the game would indeed go ahead.

In League Two, Cheltenham v Burton, Accrington v Barnet, Darlington v Northampton and Rotherham v Dagenham and Redbridge are off, and Port Vale v Chesterfield (10am) and Rochdale v Shrewsbury (10am) were set for inspections.

The fixtures already postponed were Colchester v Carlisle in League One and Aldershot v Bradford in League Two.

Friday night's League Two clash between Hereford and Lincoln was also postponed while six of this weekend's Blue Square Premier matches are already off.