The Girls’s Tremendous League must discover a resolution to forestall video games being known as off due to frozen pitches, says Chelsea supervisor Emma Hayes.
The sport – dwell on BBC Two – had kicked off as scheduled at 12:30 GMT following an earlier pitch inspection.
However referee Neil Hair took the groups off at Kingsmeadow Stadium when it turned obvious it was unplayable.
“We have pitch covers and heaters which might be designed to forestall frozen pitches. If they do not try this job, then we have now to have one other resolution,” mentioned Hayes.
“That is not my job – that is for the league and the golf equipment to type so we by no means should cancel video games. I’ve mentioned for years that cancelling video games has a detrimental impression on our sport.
“No matter it takes, to make sure that followers travelling up and down the nation aren’t having video games cancelled six or seven minutes in, is one thing we must always all work in direction of.”
Liverpool supervisor Matt Beard mentioned on Sunday the choice to kick off risked gamers’ security.
The sequence of occasions – beginning with a 09:30 pitch inspection and ending with gamers slipping over and upset supporters being addressed by Hayes – was criticised by the managers and pundits, in addition to gamers on social media.
Solely 4 WSL golf equipment – Manchester Metropolis, Manchester United, Leicester Metropolis and Studying – have undersoil heating at their main grounds.
“Typically, if that is the highest division for ladies’s soccer, then we needs to be afforded precisely the identical alternative,” mentioned Hayes when requested if golf equipment ought to put money into undersoil heating.
“This is not about Chelsea, it is about girls’s soccer and being in a spot to construct a fanbase, a enterprise and all of these issues the ultimate entry to issues for a few years.
“Somebody identified that undersoil heating is just not environmentally-friendly so perhaps in a perfect world you’ll have an environmentally-friendly pitch so you possibly can play within the prime division.”
Chelsea are set to play Tottenham within the Continental Cup quarter-finals of their subsequent match on Wednesday at Leyton Orient’s Brisbane Highway, though there will be a pitch inspection before the game.
WSL rivals Arsenal, who’re set to host Aston Villa at Meadow Park of their quarter-final on Thursday, revealed that they had “investigated the likelihood” of internet hosting the match at Emirates Stadium however it was “not possible as a consequence of important pitch upkeep”.
The Gunners mentioned there can be a pitch inspection at 12:00 GMT on the day of the match.
