{"id":42419,"date":"2025-12-10T00:27:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T00:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/scottish-challenge-cup-dunfermline-athletic-fans-angry-after-call-off-after-kick-off-time\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T00:27:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T00:27:00","slug":"scottish-challenge-cup-dunfermline-athletic-fans-angry-after-call-off-after-kick-off-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/scottish-challenge-cup-dunfermline-athletic-fans-angry-after-call-off-after-kick-off-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Challenge Cup: Dunfermline Athletic fans angry after call-off after kick-off time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A number of fans replied, saying it was &#8220;a disgrace&#8221; that the postponement had come so late when strong winds had been been forecast and that they had made the 200-mile round trip for nothing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Partick Thistle also shared their supporters&#8217; disappointment that the Glasgow side&#8217;s match in Aberdeen against Cove Rangers was postponed at 18:30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We share the frustrations felt by our supporters who have travelled to Cove Rangers,&#8221; they said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The pitch at the Balmoral Stadium is playable. However, shortly after the team arrived, the match official deemed the wind to be excessive and called the game off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Matches between Elgin City and East Fife, Hearts B v St Johnstone, Queen&#8217;s Park v Clyde and Montrose v Spartans were also postponed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In matches that did go ahead, there were wins for Airdrieonians, Arbroath, Ayr United, Forfar Athletic, Raith Rovers, Ross County, Stenhousemuir, Stirling Albion and Stranraer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The KDM Evolution Trophy is the rebranded Scottish Challenge Cup, which this season was played in a Champions League-style format by teams from lower leagues and Premiership B teams, with those who qualified joining Championship sides in the knock-out stages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/scottish-challenge-cup\/scores-fixtures\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">KDM Evolution Trophy scores and details.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c87ly7d30z7o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of fans replied, saying it was &#8220;a disgrace&#8221; that the postponement had come so late when strong winds had been been forecast and that they had made the 200-mile round trip for nothing. Partick Thistle also shared their supporters&#8217; disappointment that the Glasgow side&#8217;s match in Aberdeen against Cove Rangers was postponed at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[7046,12897,12898,2814,805,12896,166,11227,1706,2129],"class_list":["post-42419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scotland","tag-angry","tag-athletic","tag-calloff","tag-challenge","tag-cup","tag-dunfermline","tag-fans","tag-kickoff","tag-scottish","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42421,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42419\/revisions\/42421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}