The ULU sports leagues became the latest victims of the recent bad weather as numerous fixture were cancelled over the weekend. The combination of torrential rain and plummeting temperatures left pitches across the capital either frozen or waterlogged giving groundsmen no choice but to call games off in their droves.
Clubs among the LSE sporting community hit by the cancellations included both Mens and Womens Football, Hockey and Rugby. Teams from the mens football club were due to play important cup games and the rescheduling is likely to wreak havoc among an already packed fixture schedule.
Two teams who will be hit especially hard are the 4ths and 5ths. Having already had an extended international break and with the ULU Division One table looking tighter than a Glaswegian’s coin purse both sides were just beginning to build up a head of steam as the season entered its crucial stage. 5th team Captain Carrig Ryan was quoted as saying “I’m bloody fed up with this, when I was 11 I played on a pitch in Cwmbran covered in broken glass with no boots on. The world has just gone mad I tell you.”
The turmoil has even spread beyond the fields and onto the pages of the Beaver Sports section. It has yet to be confirmed whether sub par news stories will be used to fill space left by the lack of match reports resulting from the cancellations.
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