Power failure forces postponement of Millwall’s game at Portsmouth – with crowd safety a big factor in final decision

Portsmouth chief government Andrew Cullen admitted that regardless of getting the floodlights again, there was not sufficient confidence within the sport being accomplished with out a difficulty as Millwall’s conflict at Fratton Park was postponed on Tuesday night time.

The lights shut off simply earlier than kick-off, and each golf equipment introduced on social media that the issue was being investigated.

The sport was finally postponed about 55 minutes after the scheduled 7:45pm kick-off.

There have been boos across the stadium after it was introduced the sport was going to need to be rescheduled.

“We acquired to some extent the place the floodlights had been again on, however there was nonetheless a difficulty with non-emergency lighting and CCTV, so we had a choice to make when it comes to crowd security,” Cullen instructed BBC Radio Solent.

“There’s extra to this than simply 22 gamers on the soccer pitch. We had a capability crowd right here tonight, and we didn’t believe that we might get by a complete sport with some lighting not working within the stands.

“Then we acquired to twenty:30, after which we had an additional downside, which was the final trains going again to London for the Millwall supporters, and they’d not have been in a position to get these again, so a choice needed to be made.

“I’m extremely disenchanted, and I’m upset that we needed to name the sport off, nevertheless it was the one logical choice at the moment to do within the pursuits of everybody’s security.”

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