Junior and senior football across East Lancashire was wiped out by the weather - including two Blackburn Sunday League fixtures scheduled to have been played on 3G pitches.
And the big freeze hit the local amateur football scene hard with all of Saturday’s scheduled games in both the West Lancashire League and the East Lancashire Football League also postponed.
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