Storm Ciara wreaks havoc on sport as Six Nations, WSL…

Storm Ciara wreaks havoc on sport as Six Nations, WSL and Man City vs West Ham cancelled

Storm Ciara has hit Sunday's sporting programme with several football and horse racing fixtures called off, as well as the Women's Six Nations match between Scotland and England.

Manchester City vs West Ham in the Premier League was the most high profile casualty, with the meeting at the Etihad called off at approximately 11:15am.

The sell-out Women's Super League north London derby between Arsenal and Tottenham was one of the first fixtures to fall victim to the weather.

"Our fixture against Spurs Women at Meadow Park today has been postponed on the grounds of crowd safety, due to extreme weather conditions," Arsenal Women posted on their official Twitter account.

"Please do not travel to Meadow Park."

Other WSL games between Bristol City and Reading and Birmingham vs Brighton were also postponed, as were the Championship games at Charlton, Coventry, Crystal Palace and Lewes.

Arsenal vs Spurs has been postponed (PA)

All three race meetings in Britain and Ireland were abandoned because of the high winds and rain sweeping the British Isles.

Exeter was first to be called off, shortly before a scheduled 8am inspection, and then Southwell's all-weather meeting and Punchestown's Grand National Trial card followed around an hour later.

At Punchestown, it was initially hoped the high-profile fixture would survive - but after almost 30mm of further rain on Sunday morning, it was cancelled too.

Racing at Punchestown was called off, so too Exeter (Getty)

A statement from Exeter read: "Unfortunately Racing today has been abandoned.

"Wind speeds have reached unacceptable mph gusts this morning, and our localised forecast predict this to continue for the remainder of today, affecting our racing operation, public safety and grandstand areas."

Plumpton has announced a precautionary race-day inspection at 8am for the card there on Monday.

The storm conditions extended to Europe where the Dutch Eredivisie and Belgian Pro League and the Belgian second tier postponed their fixtures.

Dutch champions Ajax saw their trip to Utrecht postponed, while Alan Pardew's ADO Den Haag had their game at Sparta Rotterdam called off.

No game for Pardew on Sunday (2020 Getty Images)

Over in Germany, the Bundesliga clash between top four contenders Borussia Monchengladbach and Cologne has been called off.

The German Football League (DFL) confirmed: "Due to the bad weather warning of the German weather service and the resulting security concerns the game between Borussia Moenchengladbach and Cologne for the Bundesliga today Sunday will not take place.

Storm 'Sabine' is due to hit the region in the western part of the country later on Sunday.

In the coming days the DFL will reschedule a new date for the game, it said.

Gladbach are in fourth place on 39 points, three behind leaders Bayern Munich. Bayern’s top of the table encounter in Leipzig with RBL is going ahead.