Big freeze truncates English Premiership

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LONDON, Jan 09 (AFP): The freezing conditions sweeping Britain have forced the postponement of seven matches in the English Premiership this weekend with Sunday's game between West Ham and Wolves the latest to go.
Earlier, Saturday's match between Wigan and Aston Villa was also called off after under-soil heating at Wigan's DW Stadium failed Friday and engineers were unable to fix the problem by the time referee Stuart Atwell made an early morning pitch inspection Saturday at the north-west ground.
Atwell deemed the surface unplayable, following overnight frost.
Friday saw several postponements, with Saturday's scheduled Premier League matches between Burnley and Stoke, Fulham and Portsmouth, Hull and Chelsea and Sunderland and Bolton, as well as Sunday's fixture between Liverpool and Tottenham, called off.