Macclesfield manager Keith Alexander is bracing himself for a challenging month for his League Two side, regardless of the deep freeze.The Silkmen's clash with Port Vale at Moss Rose was abandoned at the weekend due to an unplayable surface, but Alexander insists the weather is just an added hurdle in a tricky month.

"January is always a tough month and this year especially so," Alexander told the club's official website. "We head to Aldershot next Saturday who have a very good record at home before we entertain the top two sides Brentford and Wycombe at Moss Rose.

"We then finish the month off with a tough trip to Rotherham so that's four tricky matches and it would have been nice to have played on Saturday and hopefully have picked up a win to set us up for the challenge ahead - but in the end the only winner was the weather.

"Thankfully it seems set to improve this week. It's had a major disruption on our preparations for games since the turn of the New Year as we haven't been able to train on grass so far but I suppose we're not alone on that one."

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