Cheltenham Town were last night still waiting to find out whether their appeal against striker Damian Spencer's sending off at the weekend has been successful.

Spencer was sent off five minutes from the end of the 5-3 defeat at the hands of MK Dons at Whaddon Road on Saturday. Robins boss Martin Allen labelled the sending off as "harsh" and lodged an appeal with the FA on the grounds of wrongful dismissal.

The appeal was due to be heard yesterday, but the current cold snap caused a delay in delivery of the DVD containing the incident and will now be reviewed at FA headquarters in Soho Square this morning.

Cheltenham, meanwhile, were one of four West clubs who suffered postponements last night as the fixture list was decimated by heavy snowfall.

Over half of the League One programme fell foul of the weather, while four of the eight scheduled Championship fixtures will also now have to be re-arranged and only three games in League Two managed to survive.

Whaddon Road failed to pass a pitch inspection just before lunchtime to bring an end to hopes that Cheltenham would get the chance to kick-start their continuing relegation battle against Tranmere Rovers.

A local Football League referee had a look at the pitch, which was under six inches of snow and was also frozen down the middle and around the goalmouths, before calling the clash off.

Bristol Rovers were made aware on Monday night that their game at Oldham would not go-ahead due to five inches of snow on the Boundary Park pitch, and postponements of games involving Yeovil and Swindon quickly followed after there was no improvement in the weather overnight.

Yeovil was the first to fall foul of the conditions with Crewe manager Gudjon Thordarson's prediction that "divine intervention" would be needed for the game to go ahead at Gresty Road proving correct.

Swindon, meanwhile, were unlucky not to get the chance to extend their unbeaten run to three games after their game was called off – even though the pitch was deemed "playable" after inspection.

Northampton officials, however, were concerned over the safety of spectators trying to get to the game because of icy conditions on the roads around Sixfields and decided not to risk playing the tie.