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Former Labour leader
15-02-22, 16:28
Have only occasionally been to away games, so cant match the stories of horrendous weather up North but I recall one Boxind Day game v Swindon. Feck me it was so cold the piss was freezing before it hit the ground in the old NP urinals.
Had many a soaking, but fairly recently v Southampton it was terrible, got the flu and struggled for weeks after.
Jacks at home in that Autowindscreens game.
MK Dons away in the ice rink, can’t imagine it being any worse than that. A load of people left and went to the pub. Thankfully we won 1-0.
Crewe away in the FA Cup, played in the Arctic Circle
Cleve van Leef
15-02-22, 16:48
Millwall game 65/66 season absolutely chucking it down game abandoned at half time
Former Labour leader
15-02-22, 16:51
Millwall game 65/66 season absolutely chucking it down game abandoned at half time
Was that home? Dont remember that one.
valleys caveman
15-02-22, 16:53
Have only occasionally been to away games, so cant match the stories of horrendous weather up North but I recall one Boxind Day game v Swindon. Feck me it was so cold the piss was freezing before it hit the ground in the old NP urinals.
Had many a soaking, but fairly recently v Southampton it was terrible, got the flu and struggled for weeks after.
That Southampton game, the last season at Ninian Park was the wettest I've ever been to. I was stood on the Bob drenched and the game hadn't even kicked off :hehe:
Got back to my car, stripped off to my boxers (not a pretty sight) and drove home like it.
Come on now…the answer is always Chesterfield away. In the dungeon days.
Former Labour leader
15-02-22, 17:03
That Southampton game, the last season at Ninian Park was the wettest I've ever been to. I was stood on the Bob drenched and the game hadn't even kicked off :hehe:
Got back to my car, stripped off to my boxers (not a pretty sight) and drove home like it.
😀
Former Labour leader
15-02-22, 17:04
Come on now…the answer is always Chesterfield away. In the dungeon days.
Like I said rarely an away traveller.
What was it like that day?
Butterwick Blue
15-02-22, 17:13
Blackpool away. 2008/9 ish. Open temporary stand and lashed it down.
ninian opinian
15-02-22, 17:20
Tonight :biggrin:
Moodybluebird
15-02-22, 17:23
City v Hull 2001 on a Friday night, which we won 2-0 after Hull had a player sent off. It was Baltic with the temperature dropping to -4. Got back into town still frozen, only to see girls with barely anything on queuing outside some pub/club. Made me feel quite wimpish.
Former Labour leader
15-02-22, 17:29
City v Hull 2001 on a Friday night, which we won 2-0 after Hull had a player sent off. It was Baltic with the temperature dropping to -4. Got back into town still frozen, only to see girls with barely anything on queuing outside some pub/club. Made me feel quite wimpish.
A bit OT but I was up in the North of Scotland a few year back. It was snowing, yet there were people wandering about the town in their shirt sleeves.
splott parker
15-02-22, 17:34
Millwall game 65/66 season absolutely chucking it down game abandoned at half time
That was a shocker, stands out in my memory.
Swindon away, was it in the cup? a few years back, open end with those silly little bucket seats. Could have caught the rain in those buckets.
cyril evans awaydays
15-02-22, 17:40
More bad equipment than bad weather for me. Went to school and at lunchtime my mate said fancy going to Sheff Utd away tonight. We bunked off school. I dumped my school blazer and tie with my mother at work and jumped on Supporters Coach in a thin white shirt. It was early March and fine in Caerphilly at 1pm but absolutely bitter on the Bramall Lane terrace in the evening. Lost 3-0 to boot!
Bluebirdman Of Alcathays
15-02-22, 17:43
Against Oldham in the cup there was a hail storm and the ref blew up early for half time.
Aldershot in about 1990 was the coldest I can remember. Was a Friday night and lost 3-1. Had a seat in the grandstand and it took a while to straighten up again afterwards.
Eric the Half a Bee
15-02-22, 17:43
Barry Vs Aberdeen in 96 springs to mind. One of the coldest was our 1-0 over Bristol City at home when we were last promoted.
not sure the worst but the coldest
plymouth away on boxing day around 2000
It was 2000
LFW scored in 2 1 win
Ice on terraces
JamesWales
15-02-22, 18:12
I wouldn't say it was the worst ever, as it probably had been a nice summers evening but I remember a pre-season friendly against Ajax and there was a pretty epic downpour and everyone ran from the Bob bank lower up into the seats, which hadn't been opened that night.
Burton away under Trollope was pretty bad as I recall
The weather matching the occasion
Cleve van Leef
15-02-22, 18:35
Was that home? Dont remember that one.
Yes. I’m sure it was 65/66 but may have been 67. No earlier and no later. Got a bloody soaking afterwards.
FA Cup game Cardiff City v Oldham third round game. There was a huge hailstone storm at half time.
J R Hartley
15-02-22, 19:08
That Southampton game, the last season at Ninian Park was the wettest I've ever been to. I was stood on the Bob drenched and the game hadn't even kicked off :hehe:
Got back to my car, stripped off to my boxers (not a pretty sight) and drove home like it.
That was August as well :hehe:
J R Hartley
15-02-22, 19:11
Bristol Rovers away around 94/95. Open terrace and monsoon weather. Soaked through to the boxer shorts
Think we lost 2-1 and announcement on tannoy to say there was a special train being laid on to take us back to Cardiff so we would be back in time for the rugby 😐
valleys caveman
15-02-22, 19:27
That was August as well :hehe:
The neighbours didn't look that impressed when I rocked up in a pair of steaming Calvins :hehe:
Tottenham in the cup at NP.
Sunday afternoon all huddled together on the bob Bank getting soaked through. If David Attenborough was there he would have likened it to a colony of penguins trying to shelter each other from the cold and wet.
Wigan away at their old ground (Springfield Park??)
Think it finished 3-1 with Steve Flack scoring. Open topped away end and the stewards said we could go in the covered grandstand with about 20 minutes left.
Nobody bothered because we were all soaked to the bone by then
Hot Shot Hamish.
15-02-22, 20:18
The match at MK Dons gets my vote too. I’ve never got that wet in a swimming pool.
City v Hull 2001 on a Friday night, which we won 2-0 after Hull had a player sent off. It was Baltic with the temperature dropping to -4. Got back into town still frozen, only to see girls with barely anything on queuing outside some pub/club. Made me feel quite wimpish.
Yep, I was thinking of that one too. Another was Derby away, cant remember what year.
I wouldn't say it was the worst ever, as it probably had been a nice summers evening but I remember a pre-season friendly against Ajax and there was a pretty epic downpour and everyone ran from the Bob bank lower up into the seats, which hadn't been opened that night.
I was going to post this very thing, the game which gave them Three Little Birds
kendoddsdadsdogsdead
15-02-22, 23:13
Bristol Rovers away around 94/95. Open terrace and monsoon weather. Soaked through to the boxer shorts
Think we lost 2-1 and announcement on tannoy to say there was a special train being laid on to take us back to Cardiff so we would be back in time for the rugby 😐
..was that played at Bath..
kendoddsdadsdogsdead
15-02-22, 23:18
The rain hhadn't stopped for 2 days and on the sunday morning I said to my boy...**** this, shall we go to the City?..we jumped in the car and drove to Cardiff..from Cambridge..Whitts scored a cracker to put us 1 up at halftime..then proceeded to lose 1.2..against Ipswich..it was a long drive back in the still torrential rain.I
Mario Miethig
15-02-22, 23:47
Game against the Jacks at Ninian, maybe mid 90’s. Dai Thomas was playing for them and scored and one of our fans tried to snap the crossbar. Don’t think I’ve ever been that cold at a football match in my life.
J R Hartley
16-02-22, 02:24
..was that played at Bath..
Yes that’s the one. Played them there a couple of times.
Rock_Flock_of_Five
16-02-22, 06:07
More bad equipment than bad weather for me. Went to school and at lunchtime my mate said fancy going to Sheff Utd away tonight. We bunked off school. I dumped my school blazer and tie with my mother at work and jumped on Supporters Coach in a thin white shirt. It was early March and fine in Caerphilly at 1pm but absolutely bitter on the Bramall Lane terrace in the evening. Lost 3-0 to boot!
Days like that will forever stay in your long-term memory. I can imagine how cold you must have been wearing a polyester (probably?) shirt in the evening up at Sheffield. :hehe:
Jacks at home in that Autowindscreens game.
That’s the first thing that popped into my mind.
Just arrived from Australian summer.
Absolutely drenched and the wind cutting like a knife.
It had to go to extra time as well!
Took my nephews down for their first game,
No wonder they’re both plastics now.:hehe:
splott parker
16-02-22, 06:52
..was that played at Bath..
Queuing outside Twerton Park in a monsoon!
splott parker
16-02-22, 06:54
The neighbours didn't look that impressed when I rocked up in a pair of steaming Calvins :hehe:
I’d imagine Calvin wasn’t impressed either:biggrin:
JumpersforGoalposts
16-02-22, 08:42
Wettest - MK Dons in Nov 2003 at the Hockey Stadium, the soaking that night left me with a cold for two weeks.
Coldest - Arsenal in Jan 2019, my feet were so cold it felt like I was walking on two big ice cubes at the end of my legs to the Underground after the game.
Come on now…the answer is always Chesterfield away. In the dungeon days.
:thumbup: 2-2 if i remember right
MK Don's at the hockey stadium
Chesterfield
Bristol titty the turnstiles game
Bristol Rovers away around 94/95. Open terrace and monsoon weather. Soaked through to the boxer shorts
Think we lost 2-1 and announcement on tannoy to say there was a special train being laid on to take us back to Cardiff so we would be back in time for the rugby 😐
I remember that game. I ran back to my car when the game finished to get back for the rugby. Absolutley soaking. Wettest ive been at a game.
The coldest was the midweek game at Northampton during the 90's i think. I sat in the car after the game with the heater on for about half an hour to just to thaw out.
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