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Cheltenham P-P Southend

Match off

Cheltenham Town's League Two game with Southend United on Tuesday has been postponed due to a frozen pitch.

Temperatures remained low overnight and there was also a half-inch covering of snow on the morning of the match.

The game has already had to be rescheduled once after a floodlight failure on 2 November when Cheltenham were leading 1-0.

Cheltenham say their ground staff will now focus on getting the pitch playable for next Saturday's visit of Lincoln.


Cheltenham Town football secretary Paul Godfrey told BBC Radio Gloucestershire:
"It was fairly straightforward - a referee appointed by the Football League came out at 9am.

"[He] had a look at various parts of the pitch and gave it a good thorough inspection, but it was fairly clear from the moment he walked on that it was frozen fairly solid.

"There was one place in the pitch where the spiking machine had a hole about two inches deep.

"The referee put his finger in and realised the pitch was frozen to that depth, so it was fairly clear the frost wasn't going to come out before the game."



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Npower League Two table snapshot

As it stood on 30 Nov 2010 23:59 UK

Position Team P GD PTS
1 Port Vale 18 17 36
2 Chesterfield 18 15 35
3 Bury 18 15 34
4 Shrewsbury 18 13 32
5 Rotherham 18 8 31
6 Torquay 18 9 28
7 Wycombe 18 6 28
8 Cheltenham 17 -1 26
9 Crewe 18 12 25
10 Macclesfield 18 -3 25
11 Stevenage 18 5 24
12 Aldershot 18 -6 22
13 Burton Albion 18 1 21
14 Accrington 18 -1 21
15 Bradford 18 -4 21
16 Gillingham 18 -5 21
17 Southend 17 -2 20
18 Oxford Utd 18 -3 20
19 Lincoln City 18 -12 19
20 Stockport 18 -18 19
21 Morecambe 18 -7 18
22 Northampton 18 -9 18
23 Barnet 18 -14 16
24 Hereford 18 -16 15

see also
Cheltenham A-A Southend
02 Nov 10 |  League Two