{"id":350077,"date":"2026-01-03T14:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T14:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/350077\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T14:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T14:38:07","slug":"tent-used-to-protect-lincoln-citys-pitch-from-freezing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/350077\/","title":{"rendered":"Tent used to protect Lincoln City&#8217;s pitch from freezing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said he had a &#8220;little app&#8221; on his phone that allowed him to monitor the temperature and moisture of the playing surface.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The EFL has stepped in because the club&#8217;s usual frost sheet covers are not suitable in such low temperatures. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They will work to about minus three or four, but we&#8217;ve got no daytime temperatures &#8211; I think the highest we are getting to is two degrees,&#8221; Mr Markie said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The dome is due to remain in place until Sunday morning ahead of the Sky Bet League One game at 12:00 GMT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elsewhere, the cold snap has resulted in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/cjrz39ny0w8o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boreham Wood&#8217;s top-of-the-table National League fixture against York City<\/a> on Saturday being postponed because of a frozen pitch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fifth-tier match between Scunthorpe United and Sutton United has also been called off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Met Office &#8211; the UK&#8217;s national weather service &#8211; has issued <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c1jednyk611o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a number of amber and yellow weather warnings<\/a> for snow and ice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He said he had a &#8220;little app&#8221; on his phone that allowed him to monitor the temperature and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-350077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}