Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell believes Kilmarnock could have done more to ensure their Clydesdale Bank Premier League encounter at Rugby Park beat the weather.
A Scottish Premier League statement said tomorrow's match was called off due to "approach roads to the stadium being declared unsafe by the police".
Lawwell was a lone voice of discontent as snow and ice decimated the midweek SPL programme.
Tonight's Aberdeen v Falkirk game and tomorrow's St Johnstone v Hibernian and Hamilton v St Mirren matches have been called off, while Hearts v Motherwell is subject to a 2pm inspection tomorrow.
If the game at Tynecastle fails to go ahead, the only match left would be Rangers' game against Dundee United at Ibrox, which would allow the Light Blues to open up a seven-point gap over Celtic at the top of the table.
Celtic believe the Ayrshire club neglected its responsibility to "ensure the stadium locality is safe".
Lawwell told Celtic's official website: "Clearly, we are extremely disappointed that the match has been postponed.
"We have been told that the pitch is perfectly playable, but we have also been informed that the match cannot proceed due to the stadium footprint (the area surrounding the stadium) not being cleared.
"Naturally this is very frustrating for the club and its supporters.
"As is always the case, it is the responsibility of home clubs to ensure that their own footprint or locality is safe and obviously in this case, this has not been achieved."
However, it is understood that Kilmarnock have not broken any SPL rules.
The Rugby Park club ignored Lawwell's comments and issued a statement explaining the decision made by Strathclyde Police's Divisional Commander, Chief Superintendent Bill Fitzpatrick.
That read: "Having examined the stadium and its immediate (environs) on each of the previous two days, Strathclyde Police cannot guarantee that the football match scheduled for Wednesday night (30th December 2009) could be held without considerable and unacceptable risk to spectators and others attending the match.
"Extreme weather conditions have resulted in thick compacted ice covering large areas of the approaches to the stadium. This has proved resistant to mitigation.
"The prospect of continued low temperatures offers no prospect of an improvement in the situation and therefore a reduction in the risk to spectators.
"We have advised Kilmarnock FC of our view."
Kilmarnock chairman Michael Johnston stated that he fully supported the decision made, and said: "Spectator safety is a priority and we must ensure a safe environment for all those attending Rugby Park.
"We'll now make arrangements to re-schedule this match and a further announcement will be made in due course."
Aberdeen managing director Duncan Fraser told RedTV that "treacherous" conditions around Pittodrie made postponing their game an easy decision to make.
He said: "We inspected the pitch again this morning, we inspected the terracing and everything was fine about there.
"The problem is that the surrounding streets are just treacherous."
Aberdeen have now seen their last two games postponed.
Fraser said: "What you've got to hope is that Saturday's game at Tannadice goes ahead because the last thing anybody wants is a build-up of fixtures."
St Johnstone managing director Stewart Duff also admitted there was no option but for the visit of Hibs to be called off.
He told the club's official website: "We are confident that the pitch and stadium would have been okay but unfortunately the sheer volume of snow which has fallen in the car park is an insurmountable problem.
"Our normal contractors who attend to the car park in these conditions are understandably concentrating on the roads network and even if they had been able to attend, there is the question of where they were going to put any snow lifted.
"At best we might have been looking at only half the car park being available.
"It's very disappointing but spectator safety comes first and hopefully this early decision on the game will be helpful to supporters."
However, Hibs manager John Hughes is frustrated that his side will not get the chance to make up for their 4-1 defeat by Rangers on Sunday.
He said: "We wanted to get back on track, we were preparing for it.
"When the boys came in here this morning, I detected a bit of fire in their bellies, a wee bit of anger."
Lawwell was a lone voice of discontent as snow and ice decimated the midweek SPL programme.
Tonight's Aberdeen v Falkirk game and tomorrow's St Johnstone v Hibernian and Hamilton v St Mirren matches have been called off, while Hearts v Motherwell is subject to a 2pm inspection tomorrow.
If the game at Tynecastle fails to go ahead, the only match left would be Rangers' game against Dundee United at Ibrox, which would allow the Light Blues to open up a seven-point gap over Celtic at the top of the table.
Celtic believe the Ayrshire club neglected its responsibility to "ensure the stadium locality is safe".
Lawwell told Celtic's official website: "Clearly, we are extremely disappointed that the match has been postponed.
"We have been told that the pitch is perfectly playable, but we have also been informed that the match cannot proceed due to the stadium footprint (the area surrounding the stadium) not being cleared.
"Naturally this is very frustrating for the club and its supporters.
"As is always the case, it is the responsibility of home clubs to ensure that their own footprint or locality is safe and obviously in this case, this has not been achieved."
However, it is understood that Kilmarnock have not broken any SPL rules.
The Rugby Park club ignored Lawwell's comments and issued a statement explaining the decision made by Strathclyde Police's Divisional Commander, Chief Superintendent Bill Fitzpatrick.
That read: "Having examined the stadium and its immediate (environs) on each of the previous two days, Strathclyde Police cannot guarantee that the football match scheduled for Wednesday night (30th December 2009) could be held without considerable and unacceptable risk to spectators and others attending the match.
"Extreme weather conditions have resulted in thick compacted ice covering large areas of the approaches to the stadium. This has proved resistant to mitigation.
"The prospect of continued low temperatures offers no prospect of an improvement in the situation and therefore a reduction in the risk to spectators.
"We have advised Kilmarnock FC of our view."
Kilmarnock chairman Michael Johnston stated that he fully supported the decision made, and said: "Spectator safety is a priority and we must ensure a safe environment for all those attending Rugby Park.
"We'll now make arrangements to re-schedule this match and a further announcement will be made in due course."
Aberdeen managing director Duncan Fraser told RedTV that "treacherous" conditions around Pittodrie made postponing their game an easy decision to make.
He said: "We inspected the pitch again this morning, we inspected the terracing and everything was fine about there.
"The problem is that the surrounding streets are just treacherous."
Aberdeen have now seen their last two games postponed.
Fraser said: "What you've got to hope is that Saturday's game at Tannadice goes ahead because the last thing anybody wants is a build-up of fixtures."
St Johnstone managing director Stewart Duff also admitted there was no option but for the visit of Hibs to be called off.
He told the club's official website: "We are confident that the pitch and stadium would have been okay but unfortunately the sheer volume of snow which has fallen in the car park is an insurmountable problem.
"Our normal contractors who attend to the car park in these conditions are understandably concentrating on the roads network and even if they had been able to attend, there is the question of where they were going to put any snow lifted.
"At best we might have been looking at only half the car park being available.
"It's very disappointing but spectator safety comes first and hopefully this early decision on the game will be helpful to supporters."
However, Hibs manager John Hughes is frustrated that his side will not get the chance to make up for their 4-1 defeat by Rangers on Sunday.
He said: "We wanted to get back on track, we were preparing for it.
"When the boys came in here this morning, I detected a bit of fire in their bellies, a wee bit of anger."
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