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The Wettest/Coldest you've Ever Been At The Football
Wettest-The Swansea game at home, Midweek Freight rover, Leyland Daf thingy, standing on the bob bank. Coldest-There have been many, although i recall a game against Chester late nineties at home where the pitch was frozen and the game shouldn't have been played, that was very cold.
A special mention for the Oldham Fans (think it was Oldham) who stood on the grange end when it was an open terrace during an FA cup game late nineties. There was what seemed to be a mini Monsoon that hammered the poor buggers who had zero protection, i don't even think that the club took pity on them and put them in the Grandstand. John Hallworth made a string of top class saves that day and we won, i think it was 1-0, although i did feel a bit sorry for them.
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Brighton away, in the 90’s.
Last visit to their old ground
Absolutely pissed down and we were on an open terrace.
We won 5-3 (perhaps 5-2), Paul Miller hat trick
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BLUETIT
Brighton away, in the 90’s.
Last visit to their old ground
Absolutely pissed down and we were on an open terrace.
We won 5-3 (perhaps 5-2), Paul Miller hat trick
Wasn't that a midweek game or Friday night?
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Bit of a wimp when it comes to rain and tend to avoid.
Coldest, plenty of times I’ve gone home unable to feel my feet. One stuck in my mind was Newcastle away in the league cup. Dressed to go out afterwards, Christ did I regret that decision
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Wasn't that a midweek game or Friday night?
Tuesday.
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Wettest - Barry Town vs Aberdeen in 1996. Absolutely soaked.
Coldest - probably against Bristol City at home 2 years ago.
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Coldest - Watford away last season
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Wettest - City v Southampton in the last season at Ninian Park.
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Wettest - this question comes up every now and again. The correct answer is the same as always.
Chesterfield away.
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Halifax away in the old fourth division
Soaked to the skin on that old coal ash open end behind the goal
Had to drive all the way back to south wales cold and damp as the sole driver as my mate had three pints before the game and was half pissed from the night before anyway
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Halifax away in the old fourth division
Soaked to the skin on that old coal ash open end behind the goal
Had to drive all the way back to south wales cold and damp as the sole driver as my mate had three pints before the game and was half pissed from the night before anyway
Was that in the rusty old Astra?
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Was that in the rusty old Astra?
No my rusty old maestro
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Another nomination for wettest. MK Dons away at the Hockey Stadium in 2003. Bastards took my umbrella
Watford away around Christmas time in the 2000's could be one of the coldest I've ever been
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Wettest - City v Southampton in the last season at Ninian Park.
Yup - First game of the season as well!
Coldest - Southampton again but this time away.
January 2012 we drew 1-1.
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Coldest I can remember was Leyton Orient away midweek in the mid 90’s.
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February 1986.It was bitterly cold. Fellowes Park.Walsall 6 Reading 0. A miserable day.
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Wettest - Standing on the Bob Bank watching Spurs in the cup.
Cant remember any specific cold nights. With bad circulation anyway, it's always freezing.
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Wettest
Southampton. 2-1 1st game of season on the Bob Bank terrace. It was August ffs!
Bristol Rovers away at Twerton Park Bath on open terrace mid-day kick off. Lost 2-1 think Blake scored.
Fulham away in the 80s. Arrived late just missed us going 2-0 up. We ended up 4-2 down and got drenched.
Coldest.
Sheff Utd Lost 3-0 away midweek in the late 70s. Went to school in the morning but mate persuaded me to bunk off the afternoon on supporter's coach wearing only shirt and school trousers as I dumped my blazer!
Moscow Wales play off game in November
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Think it was a Bristol City home game eons ago. It tipped down all day but suddenly became Biblical along Ninian Park Road post game as we took refuge in a long gone pub called The Craddock. It had a roaring open fire which we took turns standing as close to it front and back without being singed. I can still recall the steam appearing in my mind's eye.
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Wettest - City v Southampton in the last season at Ninian Park.
That was a bad one. Went down with manflu after!
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Wettest: any game played against Pentyrch in junior football
Coldest: the same
Coldest I’ve ever been watching a match would be a December evening game in an uncovered terrace at St Pauli about 10 years ago. I was stone cold sober but can hardly remember the game as I couldn’t bear to look up and watch it due to the freezing air. Gerald asamoah scores and some tit spilled his pint on me, soaking through my jeans.
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Chelsea away early 80's and Chesterfield away early 00's
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Another vote for Chesterfield, that was horrendous!
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Wettest, a Boxing day match with Shrewsbury in 1998 - was off work with flu for three weeks as a result (which caused me to miss an FA Cup match with Yeovil). Another contender for wettest was a pre season match with Wolves in 2002 when what had been a nice summer's day was transformed into an evening monsoon in no time at all and most of the crowd were dressed entirely inappropriately for it - I remember the club gave out those free plastic "coats" to everyone.
Coldest, a game against Blackpool in 1969 I think it was.
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the other bob wilson
Wettest, a Boxing day match with Shrewsbury in 1998 - was off work with flu for three weeks as a result (which caused me to miss an FA Cup match with Yeovil). Another contender for wettest was a pre season match with Wolves in 2002 when what had been a nice summer's day was transformed into an evening monsoon in no time at all and most of the crowd were dressed entirely inappropriately for it - I remember the club gave out those free plastic "coats" to everyone.
Coldest, a game against Blackpool in 1969 I think it was.
won 3-0, all goals past a weak goalie. Think a better than expected crowd of 13,000
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Chelsea away early 80's and Chesterfield away early 00's
remember Chelsea away 1976. Torrential rain for 140 miles, 90 minutes in ground, and 140 miles back. Went into shed end by mistake so kept dry - didn't have any trouble either..
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Organ Morgan.
Think it was a Bristol City home game eons ago. It tipped down all day but suddenly became Biblical along Ninian Park Road post game as we took refuge in a long gone pub called The Craddock. It had a roaring open fire which we took turns standing as close to it front and back without being singed. I can still recall the steam appearing in my mind's eye.
the favourite watering hole of City players in the 1920's apparently..
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Coldest - Reading away midweek in the cup in the mid 90s at the old Elm Park.
Open terracing behind the goal.
And we won! (pens I think)
(Without sounding like and old man though....the older you are the more that you feel the cold though - deffo)
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Bobby Dandruff
Coldest - Reading away midweek in the cup in the mid 90s at the old Elm Park.
Open terracing behind the goal.
And we won! (pens I think)
(Without sounding like and old man though....the older you are the more that you feel the cold though - deffo)
Memory playing tricks with you. We lost on penalties after a 1-1 draw
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Coldest for me the FA Cup replay at Crewe, January 2001. Way below freezing, the game was played on an ice-covered pitch, players falling over, a pitch invasion, and we lost...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...up/1120926.stm
Great days!
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That was indeed bloody cold. But for me the coldest was away at wigan at their old ground roughly 1996 I think. We lost and stood in almost horizontal gale force sleet. Luckily I only had to go back to macclesfield but pity people stuck on a long trek back to Cardiff.
Wettest was away at Chesterfield. Can't remember the year but we were 2 up after a thunder shot and drew 2-2. I had a mate who worked there and he let me in the covered home end. When we scored about 10 other Cardiff fans cheered. Cue a parting of the crowd to reveal who were city fans.
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Wettest - the Birmingham game a few weeks ago.
Coldest - an obscure one this, but it was a midweek Welsh Cup tie at Ebbw Vale in the mid-Nineties. City won a terrible game 1-0 with a very late Darren Adams goal (or at least I think it was a Darren Adams goal). By that time, it was so cold that me and my mate had just about lost the feeling in our feet. We had to stagger out of the ground holding each other up and sit in the car for ages afterwards before he was able to drive. It was insanely cold.
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Wettest - this question comes up every now and again. The correct answer is the same as always.
Chesterfield away.
this
one year, about 1999 or 2000, it was raining upwards it was so bad. I couldn't have been wetter if I was swimming in the sea.
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Can't remember the wettest...but the coldest HAS to be Cardiff City v Offenbach Kickers February 1962 to mark the installation of floodlights. About 2,500 there if I remember....bloody freezing on the bob bank....
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I'll second the mk Dons away game probably 2003. I remember ot was the day England won the bloody rugby world cup and we got soaked in one of those temporary golf stands in that shitty hockey stadium
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The dump that was Bloomfield rd 1989 ish, half derelict, no bouncers would let us into any pubs after either....
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Watford kast year was pretty bad....or am I just getting old!?
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Wales v Netherlands at the CC Stadium as that chump commentator called it on the weekend.
My boy forgot his coat so I gave him mine. I could have strangled him.
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Went to a game in France a good few years ago, the scoreboard was showing a temperature of -11. The game was so poor that the biggest cheer of the game was when it clicked onto -12
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I can't remember. Everything's been surpassed by memories of NFL games. Over 3 hours in the stadium. The misery is compounded exponentially.