An ice hockey team affected by a One Direction concert being cancelled is not happy at one of their games being postponed as a result.

1D had to pull out of last night's gig in Belfast due to illness, and it has been rescheduled for Friday.

That means the Sheffield Steelers' Elite League contest with the Belfast Giants, which was due for Friday, cannot now go ahead at the same venue.

Steelers' owner Tony Smith says it is "unacceptable" and "not the end of the matter".

"We certainly aren’t happy with the late postponement. We appreciate as well as anyone when things out of your control can sometimes happen that cause games to be cancelled. We believe this is a commercial decision taken by the arena in Belfast that will certainly inconvenience, disrupt and hurt financially both the club and our supporters. We await further communication with Belfast in due course," added the club's Operations Director Shaun Smith.