Accrington Stanley’s home match against Barnet at the Crown Ground last night was called off due to a waterlogged pitch.

Heavy rain started on Monday night and continued yesterday morning, leaving the Reds no chance of staging the clash with large areas of standing water in all areas of the playing surface.

And that means a headache for John Coleman’s League Two promotion chasers, who are falling behind as far as games played are concerned with 22 matches still to play between now and May 8.

That backlog – Stanley have played four fewer matches than many of their rivals – means a hectic schedule.

But they have sympathy from an unlikely source.

Morecambe boss Sammy McIlroy brings his Shrimps to the Crown Ground on Saturday and he says the winter has produced the worst weather he has ever known in his long career.

McIlroy said: “I’ve never known anything like it in all my time in management and probably not when I was a player either.

“We had the snow and ice and now that’s gone we have the rain and it’s all getting a bit of a nuisance now.

“It’s been nothing but a pain for everyone involved in football.

“It is difficult but you can’t do much about it.”