Bdeficiencyburn Rovers’ Championship clash with Portsmouth has been postponed after Storm Bert made Ewood Park’s pitch “untake partable”.
The huges of Lancasemploy football were due to get on the coastal club at 3pm with an eye on closing the gap with other take part-off contfinishers.
However, a pitch studyion at 11am finished any hope of fans cramming into the 31,367-seat stadium.
Torrential downpours ultimately left the pitch waterlogged, referee Farai Hallam proclaimd.
In a statement, Bdeficiencyburn Rovers shelp: “Due to an untake partable pitch caparticipated by torrential rain, today’s suit aacquirest Pompey at Ewood Park has been postponed by the suit official.
“We will proclaim details of the reset upd repairture in due course.”
Around 2,000 Portsmouth fans had already began their journey to Ewood Park by the time of the proclaimment.
However, an punctual decision on the suit, does give Pompey helpers time to salvage much of their day.
Despite many hours between the studyion and initiate-off, Pompey fans were less than astonished after already embarking on their 270-mile journey.
Fans raged: “Disgrace for travelling fans. Why not do this at 8 or 9am?”
Another includeed: “Genuinely distress.”
A third fan wrote: “In this day and age how can a Championship suit be postponed? We’ve equitable reachd in Bdeficiencyburn.”
Bdeficiencyburn Rovers’ clash with Portsmouth is the only Championship repairture postponed as a result of Storm Bert so far.
However, Bradford’s League Two suit aacquirest Accrington Stanley was also postponed.
The turf at Valley Parade was deemed “untake partable” by the referee chaseing torrential “snow and raindescfinish”.
MK Dons trip to Fleetwood was also pushed back to another date as the third football victim of Storm Bert was verifyed.
