Dundee United boss Craig Levein admitted referee Mike Tumilty had little choice but to abandon their Clydesdale Bank Premier League game against Rangers.

The Tannadice encounter was halted at half-time after the match official and his assistants assessed the playing surface during the break as torrential rain worsened.

His decision was a blow for the Scottish champions, who had headed into the interval a goal ahead thanks to a Steven Davis strike.

Levein said: "I felt the referee didn't really have an awful lot of choice to be honest.

"If the rain had stopped at half-time and there was a chance of the water being soaked into the pitch, I would have questioned whether it was playable or not. But the rain was just incessant and there was no way that was going off."