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It doesn't look particularly frozen :?

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That's fecking fine! :evil:

I guess the ref saw something we didn't, looks fine to me.

diamondgeezer1 wrote:I guess the ref saw something we didn't, looks fine to me.

You can't tell from those photos whether parts of the pitch, in the shade, are frozen.

It wasn't the shaded areas that were the problem, oddly enough.

Formic wrote:It wasn't the shaded areas that were the problem, oddly enough.

Fair point but unless the pitch takes a stud, which you can't tell from photos, then, nowadays, the ref considers it dangerous.
Years ago you would be allowed to play on a completely frozen pitch with rubber multi studs, baseball boots etc. I've even played at Portmann Road on a frozen pitch which was a nightmare.