Leicester City’s Official Supporters Club is planning to write to the Football League to complain about the staging of Saturday’s game at Portman Road. The match, which the Blues won 3-0, was played in heavy snow with the Midlands club unhappy that it was played to its completion.

Foxes Supporters Club chairman Cliff Ginnetta was one of 550 away fans making the trip to Suffolk and says his organisation will be contacting the football authorities to make their feelings known: "We will be sitting down in the next few days to write a letter to the Football League, after we have all calmed down a bit.

"We didn't pay £30 each to basically watch a snowstorm, and it seems the fans are the last consideration in these situations.

"In 50 years of watching City I have never seen anything like that. It was horrendous. Whatever possessed the referee to start, and then carry on with that game, it was ridiculous. It beggared belief.”

Leicester first team coach Chris Powell is the latest member of the Foxes camp to claim the game should never have got under way: "From when we warmed up you could see it was extremely hard and dangerous, especially along the flanks. Obviously anyone who was here and watching on TV would have seen that the weather got progressively worse.

"For me, it shouldn't have started. I'm sure Ipswich Town fans and players will say 'you're only saying that because you were 3-0 down after 25 minutes’. I'm more interested in watching a good game of football between two teams that are trying to win a proper football match."

However, former Premier League and World Cup ref Graham Poll backed Attwell’s decision: "Stuart Attwell was right to start the game, sensible to take a 15-minute break to ensure pitch markings were visible and right again to complete the fixture.

"He needed self-belief to withstand massive pressure to abandon the game once the snow started. Perhaps Ipswich taking a 3-0 lead helped him. Leicester might complain, but snow does not automatically mean pitches are unplayable."

Another ex-top flight official, Jeff Winter, concurred: "The conditions did not seem to be affecting the players that much. The only problem was that quite a lot of the pitch markings were not visible.”

Sky Sports, who screened the match live, have dismissed claims that they put Attwell under pressure to keep the game going: "It was entirely the referee's decision."

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OldClactonBlue added 12:23 - Dec 21 What a bunch of hypocrites we are. If we had been losing (or draing) we would be saying the same as they are. It wasn't fit to play proper football (Seecomments from Norris and Scotland) and more significantly all safety considerations for all supporters were ignored. The three points were very welcome though.
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bonanza added 12:36 - Dec 21 HA HA HA HA HA..........THANKS FOR THE THREE POINT'S. KEANEO!!
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Whymark4_Lazio0 added 12:36 - Dec 21 There's only one Stuart Attwell, One Stewart Attwell, We're walking along, singing a song, Walking in an Attwell wonderland ! .............. ............ Love the idea of turning The Wa*kers Stadium into a winter wonderland in May .... let's go for it !!!
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patrickswell added 12:48 - Dec 21 We play at the Walkers Stadium on the last day of the season, May 4 I think. If it's a really hot day and we end up losing, can we put in a complaint by claiming it's too hot to play?
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RetroBlue added 12:55 - Dec 21 ...and had LCFC won the game their fans would have done what, exactly? Get over it - move on.
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Suffolk_n_Good added 12:57 - Dec 21 OOOOO, this wine tastes off dear....... (sour grapes!)
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Doug_Clure added 13:02 - Dec 21 Just because they lost.........the letter they should be writing is to LCFC to complain about the lack of effort and application from their team. The conditions were the same for both. If anyone is to pay compensation, it should be LCFC that pay their supporters, as it was obvious from the start their team didn't want to be there.
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Whymark4_Lazio0 added 13:09 - Dec 21 I recommend the following reading for Cliff Ginnetta and his sad, whinging bunch of so-called football fans :- http://www.epltalk.com/eat-my-snow-english-football-4237 You'll love it !!!
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simonsays added 13:15 - Dec 21 What a bunch of pansies!
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northdevonblue added 13:31 - Dec 21 What a bunch of losers, i havent heard anyone in the Leicester camp actually come out and say that they were rubbish despite the conditions. sour grapes i think so!
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truckertractorboy added 13:49 - Dec 21 I sit front row next to the dug outs and the lcfc bench was moaning that the ball was not rolling which was complete rubbish but the banter between us and them was keeping the cold at bay
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MarinerisGod added 13:52 - Dec 21 Leicester fans are steaming left footers.
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Back_The_Boss added 14:08 - Dec 21 Same conditions for both sides, we turned up and they didn't. Simple.
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Ohiotractorboy added 14:31 - Dec 21 Oh good Lord. Why don't you protest your team and the way they couldn't handle it?
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corshamblue added 15:01 - Dec 21 PATHETIC. The only game this year that should have been abandoned was against the SCUM because we forgot to turn up! COYB. We will not do that Again, I hope!
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dirtydingusmagee added 15:43 - Dec 21 with the coldest winter for 100years predicted there will be a massive fixture pile up,games should be played if at all possible,bloody hell becoming a nation of jelly babies. They should grit their teeth cover themselves in goose fat and get on with things.Sven said Leicester are no good on snow,WHEN have they had to play in snow apart from the other day ,?
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nobrain added 16:10 - Dec 21 "I'm more interested in watching a good game of football between two teams that are trying to win a proper football match." Ah - the old 'proper football match' argument. That'll be one where you don't concede 3 goals in 25 mins then.....
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Upbeat~ added 16:11 - Dec 21 We WON! In your face LOSERS! Sven's a joke! COYB BLUE ARMY
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devontractorboy added 16:43 - Dec 21 The phrase "It was the same for both teams" surely applies, Ipswich just adapted better and wanted it more! Same applies to the fans I don't see any Town fans on here complaining the game went ahead!! 'Man Up' LCFC 30 years ago nobody, players or fans, would have moaned about the game going ahead!! Blllllooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Army!
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tearle1974 added 17:18 - Dec 21 Cant hear CSKA Moscow and Zenit complain in sub zero tempratures?????? Are they men or bunch of mouses, try working outside for 8 hrs in the snow?????
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sotd78 added 17:29 - Dec 21 Too many namby pamby footballers. Sven was wearing a full length duvet - I don't wonder his team never wanted to play - they took one look at him. Is it a surprise that most of the Prem games were cancelled - too many poncey players, earning far too much money for doing very little.... ...remember the Uefa Cup games in the snow; remember Bristol Rovers away in the 1978 FA Cup run. All on icy, frozen pitches; not nice soft PR.....

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Londer added 18:12 - Dec 21 Silly Leicester fans, they would have moaned if the game had been cancelled 5min before kick off,
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ipswich10 added 18:28 - Dec 21 This is so pathetic. Its not our fault your players lacked effort right from the start and it showed from the start they didnt fancy it. What if you had of been 3-0 would you of made all this fuss then? Get a grip, seriously.
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dirtydingusmagee added 19:21 - Dec 21 if anything players seemed to keep their feet better than on wet pitches,i was surprised .Graham Poll thought it was ok , so Sven ,wind your neck in ,hope you get the cuddly water bottle you obviously need ,for Christmas.
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petermorris added 20:04 - Dec 21 Good link whymark 4...... Hope Leicester looked at the pic' - the ball is on the ground (snow); not Snowhoofballed up the pitch and a massive sulk at half time..... is that Aslpley Cherry-Garrard on the ball? Was it orange?
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