Alan Burrows reveals Aberdeen 'assured' Dundee clash would be ON as raging hosts put the blame on referee

Angry Dundee will be contacting the Scottish game's hierarchy after their Premiership game with Aberdeen was postponed, as Pittodrie chief excutive Alan Burrows insists fans had to be told sooner.

The Dens Park pitch has been hit with a heavy intake of rain and with less than an hour to go before kick-off, referee David Munro called it off due to a waterlogged pitch and concern over player safety. It has left fans of both clubs raging, as Tony Docherty and Barry Robson's teams were already in.

Burrows, speaking with Red TV, says the Scottish game must do better by its supporters. He said: "I am hugely frustrated for them (the fans), for the players who have prepped to come down and play. An all-round really disappointing outcome. The fans have been committed, 3500 here to roar on the team and to be told when most of them are queuing up to get into the stadium that the game is off is hugely frustrating and disappointing. Collectively in Scottish football we need to be better than that. The earlier you give notices for for call-offs, the better.

"Games will be off from time to time, we accept that. But most fans would expect, especially this time of year, is time and notice. We checked this morning with Dundee and asked them about the playability, and were given assurances it would be playable.

"They were very confident it would be on but when the referee turned up, he would normally go out and do a pre-match inspection. I think the pitch the way it wad from his point of view, needed a further look. He deemed it unsafe to play."

Dark Blues chiefs felt the game was playable and even sent their first-team squad out on the Dens Park pitch for a full session to prove their point Dundee general manager Greg Fenton claimed