Matt Beard cut a frustrated figure as he spoke to the media following his side's abandoned Women's Super League encounter with Chelsea last Sunday.
And the Liverpool boss had good reason to be aggrieved. Ahead of kick-off, he had relayed his players' pretty damning assessment of the pitch to the referee, while the Reds' managing director, Russ Fraser, had also sent an email to the FA to voice the club's concerns about the conditions at Kingsmeadow.
A pitch inspection had taken place at 9.30am that morning, at which point the pitch was deemed unplayable by referee Neil Hair, however that decision was reversed ahead of the warm-up, following a further inspection and the use of heaters and pitch covers. And so the game kicked off as planned - live at 12.30pm on BBC Two.
