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Author Topic: Something about snow, and cold, and Presses  (Read 3301 times)

Offline Clark W Griswold

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Re: Something about snow, and cold, and Presses
« Reply #15 on: March 19, 2018, 10:50:30 AM »
Oldham away certainly ranks as one of the coldest. Went a couple of times. Villa park briefly turning into the Antarctic vs Man City during half time about 20 years ago sticks in the memory also.

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Re: Something about snow, and cold, and Presses
« Reply #16 on: March 19, 2018, 10:52:25 AM »
That Notts County away game was unbelievably cold. I was living in Nottingham at the time and went out in a thin t-shirt. Surprised I survived. And we missed a penalty!

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Re: Something about snow, and cold, and Presses
« Reply #17 on: March 20, 2018, 09:17:26 PM »
Actually, it was saved.:)

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Re: Something about snow, and cold, and Presses
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Re: Something about snow, and cold, and Presses
« Reply #19 on: March 29, 2018, 03:16:32 PM »
Done. Sorry it's late.

What is it that is 'done' every week?

Sorry for the late reply. As well as what the boss has put earlier, it simply means that I have put the link on our FB Page.

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Re: Something about snow, and cold, and Presses
« Reply #20 on: March 29, 2018, 07:09:20 PM »
You did mention Oldham but I was expecting a comparison with temperatures at Boundary Park in 1990.


When it comes to football my memories of extreme conditions are instant.

Wettest - Huddersfield away 1987
Coldest - Notts County away 1992
Frosty/Icy playing conditions - Liverpool at home 1984, Ian Rush hat-trick.

For some reason I have no recollections of particularly hot ones,although if my memory of being at the game as an eleven year old is right I seem to recall Rotterdam was very humid.

On my (four I think) visits to Oldham I do recall it was never quite a tropical paradise. In fact it made Blackpool seem like the Bahamas.

Im going to volunteer another candidate for wettest. Wimbledon away on a weekday night in around Oct or November 1992, I think. I think it was League Cup. Their open end, full of us lot , open to a total downpour, 90 minutes 0-0 then they score after 119 minutes. One of the best atmospheres I remember because it was so terrible.

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Re: Something about snow, and cold, and Presses
« Reply #21 on: March 29, 2018, 09:05:21 PM »
You did mention Oldham but I was expecting a comparison with temperatures at Boundary Park in 1990.


When it comes to football my memories of extreme conditions are instant.

Wettest - Huddersfield away 1987
Coldest - Notts County away 1992
Frosty/Icy playing conditions - Liverpool at home 1984, Ian Rush hat-trick.

For some reason I have no recollections of particularly hot ones,although if my memory of being at the game as an eleven year old is right I seem to recall Rotterdam was very humid.

On my (four I think) visits to Oldham I do recall it was never quite a tropical paradise. In fact it made Blackpool seem like the Bahamas.

Im going to volunteer another candidate for wettest. Wimbledon away on a weekday night in around Oct or November 1992, I think. I think it was League Cup. Their open end, full of us lot , open to a total downpour, 90 minutes 0-0 then they score after 119 minutes. One of the best atmospheres I remember because it was so terrible.

I'm pretty sure that was an FA Cup 3rd replay. Alan bastard Cork. It was so wet I could wring my trenchcoat out before getting in the car for the long drive home.

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Re: Something about snow, and cold, and Presses
« Reply #22 on: March 30, 2018, 12:18:20 AM »
I remember us playing in the sixties ,at Villa Park with touch lines painted blue on a snowy pitch. I think it was Blackburn or QPR .

 


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