Strathclyde Police admitted they had little choice but to abandon Friday's SPL clash between Motherwell and Hibernian.
Electrical fire causes abandonment of SPL match
Strathclyde Police admitted they had little choice but to abandon Friday's SPL clash between Motherwell and Hibernian.
The Fir Park match was called off after an elongated half-time, with an electrical fire later revealed as the reason behind the decision.
Hibs were leading 1-0 at the time and the police match commander, Chief Inspector Brian Connel, said: "Shortly before half-time, we saw smoke on the CCTV system. This was coming from the south-east corner of the South Stand.
"Fire & Rescue identified the seat of the fire was in the electrical framework for the lighting column. Initially it was clear there had been an electrical fire.
"They managed to isolate part of that frame, however, I could not be given assurance there was not the danger of further fire or the fact they would need to isolate the light, whereby the floodlight would have been off anyway.
"The match officials delayed the start of the second half as long as they could but, not getting the assurance it was going to be safe, we had to abandon the match."
