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ATHLETIC’S clash against Brentford tomorrow is another victim of the continuing freezing weather.

Overnight snow and a continuation of recent freezing temperatures have left the Griffin Park surface unplayable. The pitch was inspected at 10.30am.

This is the third successive postponement for Athletic, following the home fixture against Leyton Orient and the night game at Stevenage earlier this week.

Paul Dickov's men have had only one game in the last 20 days and face the headache of fitting yet another midweek game into a tight schedule.

Athletic are due to face Walsall on Tuesday night at Boundary Park (7.45pm kick-off).


Fixture pile-up
A FIXTURES crunch is set to hit Athletic hard over the coming month-and-a-half.

Between now and the end of March, there is only ONE free Tuesday in a period packed with games.

Below are the up-to-date fixtures


February
14 WALSALL (7.45pm)

18 Milton Keynes Dons

25 TRANMERE

28 COLCHESTER (7.45pm)


March
3 Sheff Utd

6 SCUNTHORPE (7.45pm)

10 YEOVIL

13 Stevenage (7.45pm)

17 Rochdale

20 Hartlepool (7.45pm)

24 BOURNEMOUTH

27 L ORIENT (7.45pm)

31 Notts County