I've just read on the BBC Sport website that Stranraer's Scottish League One match at home to Raith Rovers was abandoned because of a waterlogged pitch with Storm Brian being blamed for that. I have seen countless matches being postponed because of waterlogged pitches, but this usually means that the game won't even start as a result of the pitch being deemed as unplayable as a result of an inspection which takes place at some point in time before the match is due to kick off.
On this occasion, Stranraer's home match against Raith Rovers did get underway and so, the pitch would probably have been perfectly playable at that time when the match started. Indeed, there was even a goal scored by each side during the period of time when that match was being played and so, the score was level at 1-1 at the point in time when the match was abandoned. Without knowing what actually happened, this appears to be a case where torrential rain set in as that match was being played. Stranraer is of course, part of SW Scotland which has been getting quite a lot of rain recently and so, it probably wouldn't have taken much for that pitch to become waterlogged.
That indeed, was what probably happened as a result of that torrential rain which was falling with the result that the referee would then have been left with no choice, other than to abandon the game. This shows that whilst Storm Brian has been a complete non-event here in Edinburgh, that obviously hasn't been the case everywhere as the event which I have just described above is just one example of the effects of that in Scotland (no surprise there though, since it is Ireland that has been most badly hit by Storm Brian and of course, Stranraer is closer to Northern Ireland than anywhere else in Scotland).
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21 October 2017 15:58:42
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The north of Edinburgh, usually always missing out on snow events which occur not just within the rest of Scotland or the UK, but also within the rest of Edinburgh.