Rex
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Post by Rex on Jan 5, 2015 6:56:45 GMT
Yesterday goes alongside Hamilton Academicals v Motherwell New Years Day 2011 and any game I played or watched on the pitches at Lansdown as the coldest I have ever been at a football match!
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Post by danrory on Jan 5, 2015 7:26:18 GMT
The stand out one for me regarding freezing temperatures was the fa cup game at villa park... Big Ron v big Mal
My old ford cortina didn't like it either!
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Post by Feeling The Blues on Jan 5, 2015 7:48:59 GMT
Yes, that was the coldest I have been at s match for a very long time and that was wearing 4 layers and hiking boots and socks! Must be the metal terracing because most of the cold seeped in through my boots.
What is it with metal terracing? Why do new terraces often get built this way now rather than with concrete? Not only do they conduct temperature straight through you they are a damn site more slippy as well and potentially dangerous in moments of excitement.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2015 7:59:06 GMT
Stenhousemuir vs East Fife in the Scottish Cup in 2008 for me, the linesman went off with hypothermia.
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Post by CabbagePatchBlues on Jan 5, 2015 8:18:19 GMT
 If it goes alongside an early morning Sunday League game on a frozen pitch up on Landsdown then it must have been cold!
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dido
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Post by dido on Jan 5, 2015 8:55:30 GMT
Rex, I've told you before.
Now you are elderly you should take your tartan blanket to matches.
Nurse will carry it for you.
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Post by hollyhillgas on Jan 5, 2015 9:12:34 GMT
If it goes alongside an early morning Sunday League game on a frozen pitch up on Landsdown then it must have been cold! When I played rugby there back in the 70s, I'm sure they put anti-freeze in the baths. |
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Post by intheknow on Jan 5, 2015 9:45:41 GMT
Yesterday goes alongside Hamilton Academicals v Motherwell New Years Day 2011 and any game I played or watched on the pitches at Lansdown as the coldest I have ever been at a football match! I remember playing football once at Landsdown on a Sunday morning ( after a heavy night ) . There was a layer of snow on the pitch , the most biting wind imaginable and the game was abandoned at half time..... Not because the pitch was unplayable but because everyone was so bloody freezing ! |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2015 10:44:11 GMT
I remember a game at Luton in around December 1996 which was brass monkeys. Probably not helped by being unable to move due to the ridiculous proportions of the seats there
I went to see Bayern Munich play Furth in the Bundesliga two years ago. It was 15 below but didn't feel like it - 60,000 people in the ground can warm it up somewhat!
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Post by Antonio Fargas on Jan 5, 2015 10:55:37 GMT
Yesterday goes alongside Hamilton Academicals v Motherwell New Years Day 2011 and any game I played or watched on the pitches at Lansdown as the coldest I have ever been at a football match! I remember playing football once at Landsdown on a Sunday morning ( after a heavy night ) . There was a layer of snow on the pitch , the most biting wind imaginable and the game was abandoned at half time..... Not because the pitch was unplayable but because everyone was so bloody freezing ! I remember once I was so cold up there that I left the pitch at half time, and left my team to carry on the game. I still feel bad about it. What was freakish about playing on Lansdown was that often you'd drive through Wick to get to the game and it would be a pleasant sunny day, and once you'd got up on the hill, it could be thick fog, or a blizzard, or anything. |
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Post by matealotblue on Jan 5, 2015 10:57:15 GMT
This is turning into a "Pythonesque" type sketch. There will be those on here talking about gathering round extra strong mints to keep warm next. Wait a minute .....I recall standing around a packet of extra strong mints once to keep warm. Now really cold that day I tell you...... let me see when was it......?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2015 11:04:57 GMT
I remember a Tuesday night at Oldham when we had to set Matt Lockwood on fire to avoid hypothermia. And he was grateful for it
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dido
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Post by dido on Jan 5, 2015 11:10:20 GMT
Was that the one game Danny Coles proved useful?
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Post by LPGas on Jan 5, 2015 11:19:37 GMT
Away at Bury, I was so cold I asked a woman if I could get warm in her house! To my surprise she allowed me in, and gave me a cup of tea, of course I had to admit to being a southern softie
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Post by CabbagePatchBlues on Jan 5, 2015 13:36:14 GMT
Sunday morning football was always good for a few laughs and finished just before opening time. We were a man short once, up the Netham I think it was, so a bloke on the line who'd come to watch volunteered to step in as a makeshift forward. He missed a glorious chance for an extended contract when he went up for a pinpoint cross, missed it by a yard but scored a great goal with his tupé.
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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Jan 5, 2015 14:15:07 GMT
Dagenham away on April 1st 2013 (jj last game) was probably the coldest, latest in the season.
In that new stand, Tounkara (or whatever his name was? ) warmed us up a bit..
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2015 14:23:35 GMT
Dagenham away on April 1st 2013 (jj last game) was probably the coldest, latest in the season. In that new stand, Tounkara (or whatever his name was? ) warmed us up a bit.. Grimsby v Rovers, 13th April 1998. Easter Monday. It snowed. Didn't really matter as we won 2-1, only team to beat Grimsby at home that season and only team to score more than once up there as well. I remember coming out limping as I gashed my leg on the back of the seat in front of me while celebrating the winner |
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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Jan 5, 2015 14:25:55 GMT
Haha! It's all worth it if we get a win!
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Post by brizzle on Jan 5, 2015 14:49:07 GMT
I'm certain that I have the correct match details, but the coldest that I can remember ever being at a football match was a game played at Eastville versus Ipswich Town, on 18 February 1978. It was an FA Cup game that we were winning 2-1, but then Ipswich scored and it went to a replay, which we lost.
I was stood in the South Enclosure and really found it quite difficult to concentrate on the game because it was so cold. To be honest I was just glad when the ref blew-up for full-time, never mind the result.
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Post by topgashead on Jan 5, 2015 15:01:21 GMT
I have chilblains today. Nice rash all over my face. So worth it though.
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If it goes alongside an early morning Sunday League game on a frozen pitch up on Landsdown then it must have been cold!
