Snow hits league programme

Saturday's domestic football programme was suffering at the hands of the weather as a number of matches were called off.

With large parts of the country hit by the snow, Sheffield United set the trend when they were forced to abandon their fourth-versus-second npower League One clash against Brentford.

Following that, Shrewsbury's meeting with Oldham was postponed, while in League Two the games at Rotherham (v Exeter), Burton (v Wycombe), Chesterfield (v Plymouth), Crawley (v Crewe) and Port Vale (v Aldershot) all went the same way.

Rochdale's meeting with Southend was the next to fall foul of the elements, with the club citing safety concerns on their official Twitter feed.

North of the border games between Elgin and Clyde and Annan and Queen's Park were wiped out.

Elsewhere in South Yorkshire, the race meeting at Doncaster was abandoned for the same reason.

The fixture was due to feature the first major event of the flat season, the William Hill Lincoln, but clerk of the course Roderick Duncan called off the card following a 6am inspection.

The meeting at Newbury was the next to go, with the fixture abandoned because of snow.