Dundee have just been embarrassed by an amateur Tayside club after their call off with Rangers.
The Ibrox side are furious after Dens Park failed a second pitch inspection ahead of the visit of Philippe Clement’s treble-chasing bears.
With Don Robertson making the call and the game now set to take place next week, Dundee are set to face SPFL sanctions following what is the fifth call off of their season.
Dundee have been incredibly defensive and lacked responsibility throughout this fiasco and whilst that is something which is unlikely to change, the Premiership side has just been embarrassed by the Tayside Fire Brigade.
Tayside Fire Brigade game goes ahead
The Tayside Fire Brigade – who play in the Dundee Saturday Morning Football League Division 1 – will be able to play their game this evening.
The club are set to take on St Andrews Amatuers at the Riverside Playing Fields at the University of Dundee.
On the banks of the River Tay, Riverside is only 12 minutes drive from Dens Park and the game will add extra embarrassment to Dundee following the Rangers game being called off.
The entire city of Dundee has obviously been subject to the same amount of rain as Dens Park.
For a Scottish Premiership stadium to have a game called off whilst an amateur match goes ahead is a shambles and highlights the incompetence which surrounds the situation.
In a message on Facebook, the cheeky amateur side said: “Fortunately for us the game is not at the Scot Foam tonight therefore, the game goes ahead. 6:30 kick off at Riverside.”
Dundee blame global warming for Rangers pitch call-off
The Tayside Fire Brigade match also comes after Dundee’s club secretary Eric Drysdale blamed global warming for the the state of the Dens Park pitch.
Seriously, we’re not joking.
Speaking after the decision – with under-fire managing director John Nelms nowhere to be seen – Drysdale sheepishly tried to suggest we’ve had more rain than the 10-year average.
We presume because Drysdale thinks this is genuinely an appropriate excuse.
“I can understand people are annoyed and looking at this as being Dundee’s fault,” said Drysdale.
“What I would say is from the research we have done in the last few days, we noticed this year’s rainfall was 35 per cent higher than the last 10 years’ average – that shows the effects climate change is having on it and we need to urgently do more work on the Dens Park pitch and we are absolutely up for doing that in the summer.
“The pitch is of a very good quality, there have been a number of occasions where our fixtures have coincided with, for example, the storms last October which was the highest rainfall ever recorded in Scotland.
“It is very clear work needs to be done to rectify the situation and we absolutely recognise the challenges we face and the club is up for doing what is needed.”
Miraculously, it appears that it’s only the Dundee pitch which has been affected with the pitch Dundee United’s Tannadice, which is within a stone’s throw of Dens Park in near perfect condition.
Likewise, the Tayside Fire Brigade and Riverside appear to be doing something which the Dens Park staff aren’t on what will go down as a thoroughly embarrassing night for the club.
