Match Abandoned

Today was due to be my eleventh home Ipswich game of the season.  For most of those games, I have taken at least one other person, sometimes three.  That probably comes to a total of around £500 on tickets so far this season.  In all likelihood, I would have gone to at least another six - probably another £300.  But today may well be the last game I attend this season.  The reason is that the club appear to be taking the position that although the game was abandoned after about 30 minutes due to a frozen pitch, they will not be offering a refund of the money paid for the tickets today, and that our tickets cannot be used for the rearranged fixture.  Instead they will be charging us 50% of the ticket price to go to the rearranged game.  That is simply not right.  I pay to go and watch a game of football.  More often than not this season, it has been a bad game. But at leas it has been 90 minutes of football.  Today, despite all the costs of travel, food etc, I did not see a game of football.  The game that I have paid to see is going to be played at a different time.  I therefore think that, at the very least, I should be able to see the game I have paid for without paying any more.  Given that there is a good chance I will not be able to make the game if it is midweek, I think I should be entitled to my money back for today.  I understand that it can be said that I would have been entitled to a refund if the game did not start, but that the game had started.  Does that mean that if they played one minute I should not be entitled to a refund?  It also then begs the question whether it was right to start the game.  It did seem reasonable to stop it, given Sonko's injury and the comments of the managers on the state of the pitch.  But I did not notice the pitch getting any worse over the course of the half hour played - I did say to Dominic when the players came out that the side of the pitch appeared to be frozen, but it did not appear to be getting worse.  Also, if it did get worse as it was no longer covered and as it got colder, the referee and ground staff must have appreciated beforehand that this would happen - the weather forecast on temperature was pretty accurate.  So there is no excuse for saying no refund as the game was started. In summary, either the club treat the supporters reasonably and at the very least allow us to go to the rearranged game for no further payment - and ideally offer a full refund if we are unable to go, or I shall vote with my feet and not attend another Ipswich home game this season.