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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 😐
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
The match at MK Dons gets my vote too. I’ve never got that wet in a swimming pool.
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
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.
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.
MK Don's at the hockey stadium
Chesterfield
Bristol titty the turnstiles 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.