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Post by Seymour Beaver on Mar 2, 2018 12:06:36 GMT
Must have been about '93 (give or take) against Huddersfield at the old Leeds Road. A wind blowing in off the Pennines bringing in a windchill of what must have been -10c and a cocktail of rain snow and hail on to a roofless open end terrace with nowhere to hide.
Had driven up from London for the game and don't think I had either dried out or warmed up by the time I'd driven back.
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Post by salopstick on Mar 2, 2018 12:18:17 GMT
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Post by unknown182 on Mar 2, 2018 12:43:12 GMT
Fulham at home a few years back. Dempsey scored a screamer.
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Post by PotterEd on Mar 2, 2018 12:55:01 GMT
Burnley away in about 2003, I think. Was sat at the top of the stand in late December. Never been colder in my life. Think we won 1-0 though which helped!
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Post by starkiller on Mar 2, 2018 13:22:55 GMT
Boxing Day 0-0 versus Preston - 2006 maybe. It was a frozen turd of a match. I was right at the far end of the main stand by the wall, where there is no protection from the weather. Numb with cold and numb with boredom. This match has gone down in legend...
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Post by pearo on Mar 2, 2018 14:07:15 GMT
Blackburn away around November 1978, it was snowing sideways
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Post by stillgame4it on Mar 2, 2018 14:48:33 GMT
Fulham at home a few years back. Dempsey scored a screamer. Was that the match when Mama scored (the winner...?) for us? There is a picture of him and Ric celebrating in the falling snow on the wall in Clayton Wood, saw it a couple of years ago when I got a tour around there.
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Post by callas12 on Mar 2, 2018 16:08:51 GMT
Wrexham FA cup few years ago at stoke Coldest ever Fa cup game at leek town v Chester mid 90s Yep remember this one. Was chilly but bearable when the game kicked off but once the darkness fell the temperatures tumbled with it failing light. Remember leaving just towards the end coz my young girls were sat there freezing & thought it wasn't fair to keep them there any longer as it was so bitter..
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Post by cotswoldstokie on Mar 2, 2018 19:57:00 GMT
Grimsby Town 1987 in the FAcup sitting in the aptly naked Findus stand with snow coming off the North Sea right next door -the sentinel covered this week too! Plus Oldham any game in the winter and strangely Port VAle v Fort Lauderdale strikers 1978 Gordon Baks played for the strikers if my memory serves me right.
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Post by cotswoldstokie on Mar 2, 2018 19:59:11 GMT
One of these two: Tromsø v Molde in '99, or Íþróttafélagið Fylkir v Knattspyrnufélagið Víkingur in 2011. Both were slightly chilly. That said, Tromsø was made more enjoyable due to copious amounts of akevitt. Tromso are the furthest team north in Europe inside the arctic circle. I have it on my GL do list - I have been to Las Palmas - furthest south and much warmer respect to you Boothen
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Post by onepara on Mar 2, 2018 20:07:51 GMT
Oldham. I think it was a cup match because we had tickets, with 4 of us going with seats next to each other, but found that one of us had a seat behind one of the roof supports. He got relocated.
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Post by jollypotter89 on Mar 2, 2018 20:13:12 GMT
Sunderland at home a few years ago, in the snow when Huth got sent off - couldn't feel my feet on the way home!
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Post by PotterLog on Mar 2, 2018 20:15:44 GMT
I once foiled a robbery on the John Smiths concourse pie counter by nonchalantly sticking out a leg to trip up the fleeing thief, before picking him by the scruff of his neck and saying "oh you want a free meal do you? Well you'll get plenty of those IN PRISON" while handing him over to the stewards, before leaning on the counter, sparking a cigarette which I'd extracted from the pack rolled up in my plain white t-shirt sleeve and ordering an ice-cold beer, which the attractive lady behind the counter gave me on the house as a token of gratitude for rescuing her.
oh sorry I thought you said coolest
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2018 20:19:24 GMT
My Uncle Albert was at a Match once and it was so cold that the flame on his lighter froze.
T E S T
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Post by mattintheprem on Mar 2, 2018 20:31:46 GMT
A home match at the Brit v Reading sticks out in my mind as being particularly cold. Can't remember the score nor date but recall it being one of the coldest I'd been at a game.. Don't recall it being snowy or frosty but was that breeze that cuts right through ya type of cold.. This is the one I was thinking of, we lost 3-0 or 4-0 which made it even worse! It was that icy wind in a half empty brit blowing in through the open corners (oh how we miss those open corners!) I took a work colleague who was over from Denmark, he was the only one who enjoyed the weather and the goals!!
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Post by marcofstoke on Mar 2, 2018 21:11:22 GMT
At this match!
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Post by march4 on Mar 2, 2018 21:19:18 GMT
We didn’t play a game between Christmas 62 and March 63. I think that was one of the worst winters on record.
We finally played at home to Walsall (I think). It was still bitterly cold with deep snow around.
Oh those halcyon days!!
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Post by stantheman on Mar 2, 2018 21:22:51 GMT
What year was this? Amazing footage, not a pair of gloves, under armor shirt, or choice of a dozen different type of boots to be seen.
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Post by rawli on Mar 2, 2018 21:31:17 GMT
Grimsby Town 1987 in the FAcup sitting in the aptly naked Findus stand with snow coming off the North Sea right next door -the sentinel covered this week too! Plus Oldham any game in the winter and strangely Port VAle v Fort Lauderdale strikers 1978 Gordon Baks played for the strikers if my memory serves me right. No wonder you were cold at Grimsby.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2018 21:32:33 GMT
What year was this? Amazing footage, not a pair of gloves, under armor shirt, or choice of a dozen different type of boots to be seen. If I'm correct I think it was January 1979 in the 3rd round of the FA Cup. 2-0 up at half-time when the match was abandonned, and when the match was played again later tha month we lost 0-1 !
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Post by charlietarling on Mar 2, 2018 21:37:48 GMT
Wimbledon fa cup replay. It was freezing that night and as cold as I can remember the ground ever
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Post by djduncanjames on Mar 3, 2018 0:44:57 GMT
Prolly watching Toronto FC in the CONCACAF Champions League here in Toronto, Canada in the middle of winter before the ground expansion / improvements. The ground is beside the one of the Great Lakes in North America (Lake Ontario separates us from New York). Thats BRUTAL cold lads btw. -15 C BEFORE the wind chill factor kinda cold. Imagine beside a lake that big... ** Just an aside point, I worked with a lad from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The Praries aka FLATLANDS.. (The RAF have planes there). Boys THAT PLACE IS COLD he told me that they were doing a removal job, it was -55! MINUS 55 !!! they stopped working because there eyeballs were freezing to the lids So imagine that and stop moaning!!
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Post by onepara on Mar 3, 2018 2:19:16 GMT
What year was this? Amazing footage, not a pair of gloves, under armor shirt, or choice of a dozen different type of boots to be seen. At the top of the screen, 7th Jan 1979.
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Post by onepara on Mar 3, 2018 2:21:17 GMT
Isn't that Howard Kendall with the bald patch? They wouldn't play in those conditions, on that pitch today.
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Post by cooper67 on Mar 3, 2018 2:28:19 GMT
Not a Stoke game-but Gillingham v Burnley when Adrian Heath was their manager.
The wind was wipping in and I hadn't taken my hat or gloves-thankfully one of my mates lent me his scarf that I wrapped round my head,or else I'm sure I would have died.
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Post by Greenhoff Days on Mar 3, 2018 4:12:49 GMT
I think it was 1 - 1, Carl Saunders, in the run leading up to losing to Coventry the year they won it. You think you were cold, my brother and I made the mistake of chosing to sit in the main "Findus" stand rather than stand in the away end. We were perched above the pitch facing the North Sea with a gale blowing straight at us. The standing fans behind the goal looked to us like they were in the Bahamas! I think this will be the winner for loads of people, because we took an extroadinary number of fans for Grimsby away 3rd round I remember, counting the coaches filling the backstreets. That gust of wind was shocking! If just bit your face!. Pretty sure my jeans were frozen on my legs lol I was in the Findus Stand that day as well. It was proper cold. Also remember going to Barnsley away one August bank holiday and it sleeted.
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Post by Greenhoff Days on Mar 3, 2018 4:15:41 GMT
Prolly watching Toronto FC in the CONCACAF Champions League here in Toronto, Canada in the middle of winter before the ground expansion / improvements. The ground is beside the one of the Great Lakes in North America (Lake Ontario separates us from New York). Thats BRUTAL cold lads btw. -15 C BEFORE the wind chill factor kinda cold. Imagine beside a lake that big... ** Just an aside point, I worked with a lad from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The Praries aka FLATLANDS.. (The RAF have planes there). Boys THAT PLACE IS COLD he told me that they were doing a removal job, it was -55! MINUS 55 !!! they stopped working because there eyeballs were freezing to the lids So imagine that and stop moaning!! I’d have thought you’d want your eyeballs to freeze to your kids rather than watch TFC...
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Post by trickydicky73 on Mar 3, 2018 6:08:04 GMT
What year was this? Amazing footage, not a pair of gloves, under armor shirt, or choice of a dozen different type of boots to be seen. If I'm correct I think it was January 1979 in the 3rd round of the FA Cup. 2-0 up at half-time when the match was abandonned, and when the match was played again later tha month we lost 0-1 ! I was in the Boothen Paddock that day with my dad. The thing was, the weather didn't seem to get any worse(from memory the snow eased off a bit?), and the Stoke fans were going spare when it was abandoned. Bloody hell the years have flown!
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Post by Northy on Mar 3, 2018 6:40:55 GMT
cheers not seen that footage before, I was at that game, stood in the boothen end but didnt seem half as cold as Grimsby away in the cup. Barnsley away boxing day I think in the 80's? another very cold one, got beat 3-0 and we were sat on wooden benches with no roof, our lot were like bambi on ice but barnsley players adapted very well.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2018 6:42:03 GMT
If I'm correct I think it was January 1979 in the 3rd round of the FA Cup. 2-0 up at half-time when the match was abandonned, and when the match was played again later tha month we lost 0-1 ! I was in the Boothen Paddock that day with my dad. The thing was, the weather didn't seem to get any worse(from memory the snow eased off a bit?), and the Stoke fans were going spare when it was abandoned. Bloody hell the years have flown! I was in the Boothen End and you're right the fans went mad when it was abandoned. Looking at that video though the playing conditions were pretty awful weren't they. It's typical Stoke to lose at the second attempt !
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