The football authorities feel the heat following the fall-out of yesterday’s cold weather casualties.

Demands are made to investigate the allocation of holiday fixtures.

Wycombe Wanderers move back to the top of League Two.- The football authorities feel the heat following the fall-out of yesterday’s cold weather casualties as demands are made to especially investigate the allocation of midweek holiday fixtures. After pointless dangerous round trips exceeding 600 miles, a seemingly unsympathetic response from the Premier League sees Sports Minister Richard Caborn step in: “They need to consider how far people are travelling, and the likely weather conditions, to stop this unacceptable situation happening again.” Appreciating the demands of a packed calendar, Malcolm Clarke, chairman of the Football Supporters Federation, sensibly suggests it could be reasonably expected that fixtures computer should be able to allow only the five shortest distances for each club to be allocated for such winter midweek slots: “What the football authorities have not programmed in is the distance the away support have to travel and that is what we would like to see. Often the travelling supporter - the game’s best customer - is the most abused.” Torquay United must be wondering what they’ve done wrong. After their aborted journey to Stockport County yesterday, they face a round trip of over 700 miles to Darlington on Monday.

- Wycombe Wanderers return to the top of League Two with a 4-2 win against promotion rivals Leyton Orient at the Causeway Stadium.

- Former Yeovil Town manager Dave Webb returns to the Somerset club as majority shareholder and chief executive. The ex-Chelsea star buys out Jon Goddard-Watts but John Fry will remains as chairman.