BOWERS & Pitsea manager Rob Small has hit out at the Essex Senior League and Enfield 1893 after a communication breakdown led to the last-minute postponement of their clash.

Bowers and Enfield 1983 were scheduled to play on Tuesday night, but it was only at midday on the day of the game that Bowers’ secretary spotted Enfield had tweeted they would be playing at Wembley FC in the Middlesex Senior Cup that evening.

However, Small said no-one at either Enfield or the Essex Senior League had told them of the change to the schedule, with the Bowers boss calling the confusion ‘absolutely farcical’.

“Enfield and the Essex Senior League should be ashamed,” he said. “It is a complete breakdown in communication and we have suffered for that. As far as we were concerned it was just another game.

“Club legend Bert Warner gave up his Sunday to roll the pitch and he is in his Eighties! Our players had arranged to leave work early. And it was all for nothing.

“I don’t understand how, in step five football, this has been allowed to happen. Without Enfield’s tweet we would have been none the wiser.”

Essex Senior League chairman Rob Errington confirmed the league had received a letter of complaint from the club about the communication breakdown, and said they were looking into what had happened.

Bowers had been aiming for a return to form against a side sitting in the bottom half of the table but their next match will now be against bottom side Greenhouse London.