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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Suzanne Wrack

‘Like an ice rink’: Emma Hayes fumes after Chelsea v Liverpool abandoned

Liverpool’s players walk off with their manager, Matt Beard, after the match against Chelsea is abandoneed due to a frozen pitch.
Liverpool’s players walk off with their manager, Matt Beard, after the match against Chelsea is abandoned due to a frozen pitch. Photograph: Zac Goodwin/PA

Chelsea and Liverpool players have condemned the merry-go-round of decision-making that led to Chelsea’s match against Liverpool being postponed six minutes into the game due to a frozen pitch that manager Emma Hayes described as being like an “ice rink”.

A pitch inspection at 9.30am at Kingsmeadow had deemed the pitch at Chelsea’s home ground for their women’s and academy teams was unplayable. Covers were put across the pitch and heaters directed at it in an attempt to thaw it and prior to the warmup it was judged usable, although Chelsea moved to a different area of the pitch for their warm up.

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