{"id":5042,"date":"2026-01-03T17:10:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T17:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=5042"},"modified":"2026-01-03T17:10:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T17:10:40","slug":"five-spfl-games-off-because-of-snow-with-further-inspections-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=5042","title":{"rendered":"Five SPFL games off because of snow with further inspections to come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Seven of Saturday&#8217;s Scottish Professional Football League matches have been postponed because of freezing weather across Scotland.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cove Rangers v Montrose in League 1 and Elgin City v East Kilbride in League 2 were called off on Friday because of snow in the north-east.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Championship meetings between Ayr United and Queen&#8217;s Park and Dunfermline Athletic and Ross County were postponed because of frozen pitches on Saturday morning, along with Hamilton Academical versus East Fife and Inverness CT v Peterhead in League 1 and Stirling Albion against Annan Athletic in League 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There was already a lack of certainty over Hamilton&#8217;s game, with players considering not playing after they were not paid on time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Caretaker manager Darian MacKinnon assured fans he would be able to field a team if the match went ahead at Broadwood Stadium but admitted the club is in a &#8220;critical&#8221; condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, the Spartans versus Dumbarton in League 2 survived a Saturday pitch inspection.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven of Saturday&#8217;s Scottish Professional Football League matches have been postponed because of freezing weather across Scotland. Cove Rangers v Montrose in League 1 and Elgin City v East Kilbride in League 2 were called off on Friday because of snow in the north-east. The Championship meetings between Ayr United and Queen&#8217;s Park and Dunfermline<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}