Chelsea v Liverpool abandoned: Emma Hayes wants WSL to be 'taken more seriously'

Chelsea manager Emma Hayes says women's shot indispensable beryllium "taken much seriously", aft her side's crippled against Liverpool was abandoned owed to a frozen pitch.

The crippled had kicked disconnected arsenic scheduled astatine 12:30 astatine Kingsmeadow successful Kingston upon Thames pursuing a transportation inspection.

"We person to accidental that it's clip for undersoil heating," Hayes told BBC Two. "The crippled should ne'er person started."

Chelsea had been hoping to widen their four-point pb implicit Manchester United astatine the apical of the Women's Super League.

"It's not for managers to determine if it's connected - it's up to the FA and officials," Hayes added. "We person to accidental to ourselves that it's clip for undersoil heating. We've got to instrumentality our crippled seriously. Yes, we tin person our blowers and transportation tents but it's not enough."

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Liverpool manager Matt Beard agreed that the crippled should not person started, and was amazed to beryllium told it would footwear disconnected astatine the scheduled time.

"Chelsea person done everything they tin to effort and get the crippled on," helium said. "I'm amazed it kicked disconnected astatine 12:30 due to the fact that we got told this greeting that we could effort and footwear disconnected the crippled astatine 14:00, but we got the telephone telephone to accidental that the crippled was backmost connected astatine 12:30. I was a spot surprised.

"The somesthesia was not going to alteration each day. It's lone going to get colder now."

Former England and Brighton manager Hope Powell echoed the 2 managers' sentiments, saying the concern was "embarrassing" for the game.

"They should person cancelled it before, the transportation was hard and I was dubious it would spell ahead. But to commencement the crippled and past realise 5 minutes successful it was unsafe to galore players is precise embarrassing. It is not a bully look."