Neil Warnock launched an incredible tirade after Cardiff's clash with Derby was postponed, with the Bluebirds boss labelling the decision 'scandalous', 'a disgrace' and unacceptable.

Warnock's second-placed side were set to face Derby at Pride Park at midday on Sunday. But the game was called off less than four hours before kick-off after the Midlands club said snow had rendered conditions 'unsafe for supporters, staff and officials'.

Warnock was left furious by the decision that temporarily halts his side's push for the Premier League, with the 69-year-old even suggesting Derby may have been influenced by the fitness problems plaguing Gary Rowett's squad.

Neil Warnock has slammed the 'scandalous' decision to postpone Cardiff's game at Derby

Derby claimed that snow had rendered conditions 'unsafe for supporters, staff and officials'

'I'm very disappointed obviously. I'm not overly surprised. When I heard Gary's remarks earlier in the week about "if we can get over this weekend's injury crisis with this game we should be OK"', he told Sky Sports.

'Obviously there is snow but I think it's a disgrace quite frankly. You look at the game two weeks ago here against Fulham and if you look on the website all the Derby fans are saying it was ten times worse. As you see there is nothing here, the car parks are clear, all the shops are open.

'We've got some of our fans outside who have travelled a distance, some Derby fans who have come from miles away and you see all the comments and I'm sorry I can't accept that today.

'Safety? We've come down from the middle of the countryside in the coach and the roads have been perfectly all right. So I just don't know where they're coming from... I think it's scandalous me.'

'I just don't know where they're coming from... I think it's scandalous,' Warnock said on Sunday

Some Cardiff supporters had already made the 120-mile journey from south Wales when they found out the Championship clash had been postponed.

The fixture will now be arranged but Warnock refused to accept that the conditions justified the postponement.

Cardiff have won their last seven matches, while Derby's own push for promotion has stuttered in recent weeks.

Injuries and a poor run of form have cost Rowett's side vital ground in the race for the Premier League. They now sit fifth, one point ahead of Bristol City in seventh. And Warnock joked that it's understandable that Derby didn't want to face his in-form side.

Gary Rowett's Derby have suffered a dip in form and now sit fifth in the Championship table

'We've come from the surrounding areas and it's quite accessible and quite easy to get here,' he said.

'(But) whatever I say they'll justify it. They'll get the chief police officer to say what he did and all the reasons. But what I'm saying to you is the ordinary guy in the street, the Derby fans, have a look on the website and they all think it's an absolute stitch-up - the Derby fans! Nobody else.

'There is hardly any (snow). In a way you can't blame them can you? You wouldn't want to play us at the moment would you?'