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Title: Its raining/bone chilling cold outside, Villa must be at home!
Post by: andyaston on January 30, 2011, 08:27:37 PM
From the winter of last season onwards the games in a season and half have been awful weather wise. I think the Blackburn home prem game and the West Ham game were the only ones that it didnt feel cold. Its either been pissing it down or bloody freezing.

Before the Stoke game last december I was virtually skating to Villa Park.
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Post by: pauliewalnuts on January 30, 2011, 08:29:05 PM
Yesterday was hideously cold.
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Post by: luke25 on January 30, 2011, 08:31:11 PM
2 pissing Bovrils I had yesterday, i aint even keen on it, cold is an under statement
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Post by: villajk on January 30, 2011, 08:32:12 PM
Before we played West Ham away last season (September/October ish?) I bought a new pair of thermal gloves and I think I've had to wear them at every game since.

Yesterday was bitterly cold.  Not quite as bad as Liverpool away this season, mind.
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Post by: dave.woodhall on January 30, 2011, 08:33:48 PM
It pissed down before, during and shortly after the West Ham game this season as well.
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Post by: rutski on January 30, 2011, 08:34:05 PM
Before we played West Ham away last season (September/October ish?) I bought a new pair of thermal gloves and I think I've had to wear them at every game since.

Yesterday was bitterly cold.  Not quite as bad as Liverpool away this season, mind.
liverpool away was damn cold, not much to keep us warm either1
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Post by: andyaston on January 30, 2011, 08:40:02 PM
It pissed down before, during and shortly after the West Ham game this season as well.

Yes, I remember that storm at the start of the second half, the sky went black. Least it wasn't too cold, wonder what the forecast is for next Saturday?
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Post by: eric woolban woolban on January 30, 2011, 09:28:20 PM
Last season was freezing too.
Title: Cold
Post by: cdbearsfan on January 30, 2011, 10:01:48 PM
I think last season was worse. And the Britannia Stadium is the coldest place on Earth.
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Post by: The Left Side on January 30, 2011, 10:05:30 PM
I live in Canada and I went to yesterday's game and I have not been so cold for months, although I did see a bald bloke walking down trinity road with just his Villa shirt on!
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Post by: villajk on January 30, 2011, 10:14:46 PM
I think last season was worse. And the Britannia Stadium is the coldest place on Earth.

Last season was the coldest whole season I have ever known.
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Post by: Chris Jameson on January 30, 2011, 10:21:36 PM
The last 2 weekends watching my son playing for his Under 8's team it's been bloody freezing yet not one of the boys has worn tights, gloves or bloody snoods. If 7 year olds can cope with the cold why can't professional footballers?
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Post by: The Situation on January 30, 2011, 10:23:16 PM
Records were set for a freezing cold December... January has been very mild and humid (a nice change after a horrible December), got a bit chilly last few days though.

Can't stay out in really cold weather for too long cos' I got a weak immune system but I'll make exceptions for the Villa!
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Post by: vilan461 on January 30, 2011, 10:54:35 PM
The coldest ive been this season was Spurs at home,,just could not get warm even at home 50 mins after the game finished--mind its been cold almost every home game----Chelsea for some reason was bitter and yestreday dam cold,
  last season Liverpool  at home i thought i was going to have a seizure,
  would,nt it be nice to get a game with just a wee bit of sunshine?
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Post by: Rich6by7 on January 30, 2011, 11:20:56 PM
I was in shirt sleeves for the Blackburn Carling Cup match!

Otherwise, yes, cold and/or wet all round.
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Post by: DrGonzo on January 31, 2011, 12:08:43 AM
ffs what is the issue with players wearing clothes to keep themselves warm? you are starting to sound like alan fucking green, welcome to the enlightened age.
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Post by: davevillan on January 31, 2011, 12:13:30 AM
Yesterday was a bit nippy.
I thought Baggies at home 2 yrs ago was colder tho, that was freezing!!
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Post by: dave.woodhall on January 31, 2011, 12:33:40 AM
Arsenal this season was even colder.
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Post by: Toronto Villa on January 31, 2011, 12:59:23 AM
cold indeed...we don't wear trousers here unless it gets to -15C.




Kidding off course. The worst I've been in here was -52C (with the wind chill) in Ottawa in 2002. So cold that your nose hairs would stick together as soon as you walked outside. But there's something about the English cold that just gets into your bones. It's the dampness that does it. Something I don't really miss.
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Post by: Rip Van We Go Again on January 31, 2011, 07:34:40 AM
Been a terrible winter.
My gas bill made me billious.
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Post by: Dave Cooper please on January 31, 2011, 09:30:33 AM
It pissed down before, during and shortly after the West Ham game this season as well.

There was a Biblical proportion thunder storm half-way through.
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Post by: Simon Ward on January 31, 2011, 11:16:28 AM
Saturday wasn't that cold was it? Certainly first half when the goals went in kept everyone warm I thought. My youngest did complain of the cold when walking back to the car however!
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Post by: Legion on January 31, 2011, 11:44:44 AM
Yes it was.
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Post by: Chris Jameson on January 31, 2011, 11:53:28 AM
The coldest i've ever been at a match was on a sunny day at Boundary Park in the early 90's. Bloody freezing it was.
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Post by: Astral Weeks on January 31, 2011, 12:30:12 PM
Saturday wasn't that cold was it? Certainly first half when the goals went in kept everyone warm I thought. My youngest did complain of the cold when walking back to the car however!

As cold as I can ever remember being at a match. I lost contact with my feet about half an hour into the game. I think it was the wind-chill that did it. There was a bloke next to me with his young daughter, and the poor kid was shivering uncontrollably for most of the second half.
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Post by: London Villan on January 31, 2011, 12:44:27 PM
Liverpool last Christmas with the horizontal snow. I've even bought myself a thick waterproof jacket because I am sick of being cold and wet and at the Villa.
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Post by: Astral Weeks on January 31, 2011, 01:05:38 PM
Liverpool last Christmas with the horizontal snow. I've even bought myself a thick waterproof jacket because I am sick of being cold and wet and the Villa.

I should have been at that game with my daughter, but had to cry off, what with having the swine flu. I reckon the weather would have finished me off that night.
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Post by: cheltenhamlion on January 31, 2011, 01:18:39 PM
It seems every time I have walked out of Villa Park for about a year or so now the weather has been dreadful.
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Post by: CJ on January 31, 2011, 02:06:57 PM
And the Met Office forecast for the weekend is......*drum roll*........unsettled, wet and windy with spells of heavy rain  >:(
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Post by: Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air on January 31, 2011, 02:44:26 PM
Never seemed this cold when Doug was still in charge.

The Board Must Go !
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Post by: Simon Ward on January 31, 2011, 02:59:58 PM
Never seemed this cold when Doug was still in charge.

The Board Must Go !

The hot air coming from the directors box kept us all warm!
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Post by: amfy on January 31, 2011, 06:35:36 PM
Liverpool last Christmas with the horizontal snow. I've even bought myself a thick waterproof jacket because I am sick of being cold and wet and at the Villa.

Now theres a revolutionary idea - wearing appropriate clothing for the weather! I'm rarely cold at Villa because I wear thermal layers, a warm coat, and shoes with thick soles...................................and drink  as much as possible before kick off!
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Post by: CJ on January 31, 2011, 06:42:25 PM
Obviously the inclement weather this season is a direct result of MON leaving - after all. according to some posters, the sun really did shine out of his arse
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Post by: villajk on January 31, 2011, 06:56:09 PM
Liverpool last Christmas with the horizontal snow. I've even bought myself a thick waterproof jacket because I am sick of being cold and wet and at the Villa.

Now theres a revolutionary idea - wearing appropriate clothing for the weather! I'm rarely cold at Villa because I wear thermal layers, a warm coat, and shoes with thick soles...................................and drink  as much as possible before kick off!

I wear layers upon layers.  Scarves, hats, hoods, thermal gloves, thick socks, fur lined boots, I'm like the Michellin man.  I also have lots of hand warmers.

I'm going to try your second suggestion tomorrow night, Amfy.  Plenty of alcohol.
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Post by: curiousorange on January 31, 2011, 07:48:07 PM
I actually put together a list of all the weather conditions for home games this season from memory that I never managed to post. But to cut a long story short, since August it's been fucking freezing.
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Post by: PeterWithe on January 31, 2011, 07:54:37 PM
Liverpool last Christmas with the horizontal snow. I've even bought myself a thick waterproof jacket because I am sick of being cold and wet and at the Villa.

Now theres a revolutionary idea - wearing appropriate clothing for the weather! I'm rarely cold at Villa because I wear thermal layers, a warm coat, and shoes with thick soles...................................and drink  as much as possible before kick off!

All well and good but the huge coat I bought for Villa games seemed to cause us to lose at SHA & Sunderland so must be unlucky and can never be worn in B6 again.
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Post by: London Villan on January 31, 2011, 09:37:03 PM
I know last season that it rained at all but two games...
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