Dundee v St Johnstone postponed because of waterlogged pitch
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There will be no action at Dens Park on Tuesday
Dundee's Scottish Premiership match with St Johnstone has been postponed because of a waterlogged pitch.
A morning inspection was organised at Dens Park following overnight rainfall.
Dundee and St Johnstone are not scheduled to play again until after the Premiership winter break.
"I'm very frustrated for our supporters who had bought tickets in large numbers who were looking forward to backing the team at Dens Park and I thank them for that," said Saints CEO Stan Harris.
"We were told at 9.30am of a precautionary pitch inspection but were advised that things looked to be promising in terms of the game going ahead and so to find out at 11.30am that the match was off was very disappointing.
"We do understand the problems that waterlogged pitches can cause and that is why we invested over one hundred thousand pounds last summer to improve the drainage on our own playing surface.
"I'd like to thank our ticket office staff who, with it being paper tickets, manually administered the sale of just short of 2,000 tickets."
Four other top-flight games and five in the Championship are scheduled for Tuesday at 15:00 GMT.
And St Mirren host Celtic in the Premiership at 17:00.
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