Francis Vines has blasted the referee for controversially calling off Crawley's home game against Newport County on Saturday.

Both managers wanted the match to go ahead but the referee postponed it 30 minutes before kick-off because he said the pitch was waterlogged.

The Reds boss said: "The referee obviously had better things to do on Saturday afternoon because we could have played the game quite easily.

"We trained on it for an hour afterwards so it can't have been that bad."

Crawley, who top the premier division table by three points, have named the same 16-man squad for tonight's trip to Merthyr Tydfil with only long term absentees Mo Harkin, Nigel Brake and Robert Smith missing.