- Three of Sunday’s WSL games called off due to frozen pitches
- Chelsea manager calls for undersoil heating across the WSL
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.
