Cheltenham Town's League Two game with Southend United on Tuesday has been postponed due to a frozen pitch.

Temperatures remained low overnight and there was also a half-inch covering of snow on the morning of the match.

The game has already had to be rescheduled once after a floodlight failure on 2 November when Cheltenham were leading 1-0.

Cheltenham say their ground staff will now focus on getting the pitch playable for next Saturday's visit of Lincoln.

Cheltenham Town football secretary Paul Godfrey told BBC Radio Gloucestershire:
"It was fairly straightforward - a referee appointed by the Football League came out at 9am.

"[He] had a look at various parts of the pitch and gave it a good thorough inspection, but it was fairly clear from the moment he walked on that it was frozen fairly solid.

"There was one place in the pitch where the spiking machine had a hole about two inches deep.

"The referee put his finger in and realised the pitch was frozen to that depth, so it was fairly clear the frost wasn't going to come out before the game."

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