Underhills planskötare: "Matchen borde ha spelats"
Matchen mellan Barnet och Grimsby ställdes in på grund av frusen plan. Nu säger planskötaren Barry Moggridge på Underhill Stadium att matchen borde ha spelats.
Domaren Steven Cook beslutade att planen var ospelbar vid lunchtid på lördagen. Moggridge var förvånad:
"We were all surprised when they took the decision."
"A lot of people felt it should have been on and, in my opinion, it should have been."
"I've been here a year and I haven't had a game off yet. It's been soaking wet one Saturday but we got the game on."
"The referee said that day that 90 per cent of the pitch was OK, so the game went ahead."
Grimsby hade spenderat natten på hotell i närheten och dess manager Mike Newell anlände till Underhill strax efter att beslutet var taget.
Moggridge fortsätter:
"They didn't give the Grimsby manager a chance to get down here - they called it off before he arrived."
"It was about midday when they called it off - they didn't give it a chance to thaw out any further."
"They said it wouldn't take a stud, even though they didn't try any studs on it."
"It was an area in the shade, which was still frozen."
"The referee said he was looking at it from a players' safety point of view."
Beslutet var helt klart omtvistat då solen sken ordentligt över Underhill under lördagen. Enligt uppgifter var det bara en liten del av planen som skymdes av South Stand som var en aning hård, men som inte testades ordentligt som Moggridge säger.
Det är ännu inte klart när matchen ska spelas.
