Partick Thistle's Firhill hopes to host Glasgow Warriors' rugby game on Friday

By Brian McLauchlin

Scotland's freezing temperatures could be the final straw for a number of financially stricken football clubs, according to Livingston's chairman.

Dundee have already gone into administration this season.

And Ged Nixon believes that more could follow as no money is coming through the door because of recent match postponements in Scotland.

"Realistically, I think its inevitable that somebody else will fall," he told BBC Scotland.

"Obviously Dundee are in trouble just now. We are feeling it hard, but there are bound to be other clubs feeling it more than ourselves."

For this weekend's home game, we had the restaurants fully booked and the club shop was fully stocked Livingston chairman Ged Nixon

Seven Scottish Football League fixtures have already been dropped from Saturday's fixture card because of snow and ice.

Alloa's synthetic pitch played host to the only game to survive last Saturday, while the previous week's fixtures were wiped out because of a strike by Scotland's category one referees.

Midweek SFL and Scottish Cup ties have also fallen victim to the weather and Livingston's Second Division game against Ayr United is one of the latest casualties.

"We have had a very welcome interim payment from the SFL last week and we are fortunate because of what we have done to date in not spending what we don't have," said Nixon.

Livingston are not due to play at home again until 2 January, with Almondavale last hosting a game on 6 November - meaning a spell of around eight weeks without a home game.

"That's a long time between home fixtures," added Nixon. "For this weekend's home game, we had the restaurants fully booked and the club shop was fully stocked ready for our fans. We will lose all that now, so it's not easy."

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