| Coldest football Match you have ever been to?? 17:51 - Oct 28 with 20257 views | TRUE_BLUE123 |
With Winter fast approaching, I was just wondering what the coldest football game you have ever been to is and how you dealt with it?
I want to give a shoutout to someone back in 2015 vs Wolves at home who was doing laps of the concourse at half time to "warm his feet up". True story. |  |
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| Coldest football Match you have ever been to?? on 19:19 - Oct 28 with 5116 views | NBVJohn |
Strange timing, given that I was only talking about this with my Dad the other day! Circa 1976 in the very stand housing Town fans on Saturday at Roots Hall, my Dad and I stood watching Southend beat Halifax Town 5 - 0. I was used to a pretty full PR, and a crowd to keep me warm, but in the sparsely populated stand in was bloody freezing.
I recall Southend had an on loan John Burridge in goal, and despite his clean sheet he had the demeanour of a man who clearly considered the lower (can’t remember if it was 3rd or 4th division) to be very much beneath him.
I suppose I was about 10 at the time. We were staying at my Nan’s in Leigh and we stopped at at the Smack Inn in so my Dad, who wasn’t much of a drinker could have a Double Scotch to warm up.
Roots Hall was my first memory of a football ground, probably around 1970 ish as my Dad played Trombone in the band that played on the pitch during half time. I used to go along with him from time to time, and despite the very happy memories I don’t ever recall being warm. |  | | |
| Coldest football Match you have ever been to?? on 19:23 - Oct 28 with 5110 views | NBVJohn |
| Coldest football Match you have ever been to?? on 19:02 - Oct 28 by longtimefan |
England v Cameroon at Wembley 1991, it was absolutely freezing. Travelled in a friend’s car , via Cambridge to pick up his mate on route, and stayed there overnight. Next morning got up early to travel back to work, to be met with snow. We only got as far as Stow-cum-Quy before his car stopped. The idiot didn’t have anti freeze in the engine and it had frozen, making it over heat. Waited 4 hours for breakdown services that never arrived before abandoning the car and hitch hiking home. Finally got back to Ipswich at 7pm, 12 hours after leaving Cambridge and having missed a days work! |
I was there too. Got tickets from a tout outside. He was cutting his losses as we got them at face value. Pretty damn chilly as I recall and thick snow the next day. | | | |
| Coldest football Match you have ever been to?? on 19:38 - Oct 28 with 5082 views | Illinoisblue |
Plymouth at home feb or march 1992. In the shadow of the West Stand with an icy wind blowing through. Hungover and wearing just a light jacket. Thought I was going to die. |  |
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| Coldest football Match you have ever been to?? on 19:43 - Oct 28 with 5066 views | BlueBadger |
A trip to Ely City in February. With a gale blowing across the fens and NO covered stands. And no clubhouse. |  |
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| Coldest football Match you have ever been to?? on 19:44 - Oct 28 with 5069 views | WickhamsLeftBoot |
Wigan at home, Christmas 2004, changed to an unbearably cold Tuesday night for Sky, fog rolled in at some point. [Post edited 25 Apr 2020 0:40]
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| Coldest football Match you have ever been to?? on 19:46 - Oct 28 with 5062 views | stonojnr |
Bristol Rovers away in the FA cup 98, 3rd Jan, it had snowed, the wind was blowing a gale and it hailed as well, people were literally using the portacabin toilets to shelter in.
coldest at home I think was either a reserve game or youth cup game, couldnt feel my feet or hands at the end of it, though Sheff Utd at home in the prem league was pretty parky too | | | |
| Coldest football Match you have ever been to?? on 19:53 - Oct 28 with 5041 views | Tractorgirlforever |
2 games come to mind, 1 at birmingham on a midweek evening in the 90s and stoke away a few years ago, a bitter cold wind blowing right through the stand. |  | | |
| Coldest football Match you have ever been to?? on 20:03 - Oct 28 with 5028 views | hammo56 |
Austria v England in Vienna November 2007.
Still don’t think I’ve thawed out properly now. | | | |
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| Coldest football Match you have ever been to?? on 20:05 - Oct 28 with 5024 views | Superfrans |
Bristol Rovers vs Ipswich in January 1998. It finished 1-1 and was sleeting and blowing a gale - at one point one of our players cleared the ball, it flew to the halfway line and was blown back into our box by the wind. Brass monkeys that day. [Post edited 28 Oct 2019 20:06]
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| Coldest football Match you have ever been to?? on 20:08 - Oct 28 with 5013 views | EastTownBlue |
| Coldest football Match you have ever been to?? on 19:46 - Oct 28 by stonojnr |
Bristol Rovers away in the FA cup 98, 3rd Jan, it had snowed, the wind was blowing a gale and it hailed as well, people were literally using the portacabin toilets to shelter in.
coldest at home I think was either a reserve game or youth cup game, couldnt feel my feet or hands at the end of it, though Sheff Utd at home in the prem league was pretty parky too |
There was also a bit of thunder and lightning as I arrived at the Bristol Rovers ground while waiting for the outcome of a pitch inspection. | | | |
| Coldest football Match you have ever been to?? on 20:27 - Oct 28 with 4992 views | Churchman |
Coventry away at Highfield Rd not long before Christmas in the early 90s springs to mind. Thank goodness for the lava-bovril to warm the hands. |  | | |
| Coldest football Match you have ever been to?? on 20:39 - Oct 28 with 4977 views | Alexwaddell |
| Coldest football Match you have ever been to?? on 20:27 - Oct 28 by Churchman |
Coventry away at Highfield Rd not long before Christmas in the early 90s springs to mind. Thank goodness for the lava-bovril to warm the hands. |
Hamilton accies v Motherwell, 2 bottles of Buckfast, 3 Bovrils, 4 Scots pies and still freezing....last time I wore Kahki shorts to a game | |
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| Coldest football Match you have ever been to?? on 20:45 - Oct 28 with 4968 views | solemio |
Home v Tranmere Rovers on a Friday evening. Can't remember the year - I blame the cold for freezing my brain. | | | |
| Coldest football Match you have ever been to?? on 21:11 - Oct 28 with 4947 views | oldburian |
| Coldest football Match you have ever been to?? on 20:45 - Oct 28 by solemio |
Home v Tranmere Rovers on a Friday evening. Can't remember the year - I blame the cold for freezing my brain. |
March 11th 1972 away at Notts Forest. Because it was so cold we bought stand tickets, the sellar said he had given us front row seats. Yes the crowd was so small there were only people enough to fill the first row.
We were opposite the Main Stand and the supporters there were relentlessly chanting 'Committee Out' or '(Matt) Gillies out'.
Won 2 - 0, both goals in the first half against a gale force wind,Johnny Miller was absolutely brilliant. It basically meant that we were safe but Forest were in all sorts of problems and were eventually relegated.
Unfortunately my car at the time did not have a particularly effective heater so the two in the backseat froze all the way home - never let me forget it! | | | |
| Coldest football Match you have ever been to?? on 21:24 - Oct 28 with 4932 views | StochesStotasBlewe |
A Simod cup tie at Highfield Road in the late 80,s. A biting gale force wind blowing straight into the main stand.
We lost 2-0. |  |
| We have no village green, or a shop.
It's very, very quiet.
I can walk to the pub. |
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| Coldest football Match you have ever been to?? on 21:27 - Oct 28 with 4921 views | Ryorry |
Bolton away, can't remember date, but numerous games at theirs between Oct-April any year would qualify! It's the wind, the way it whips into & around the ground (which is one of the highest, of not the highest, in England iirc.) |  |
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| Coldest football Match you have ever been to?? on 21:34 - Oct 28 with 4909 views | Ely_Blue |
| Coldest football Match you have ever been to?? on 18:34 - Oct 28 by FPL_Tractor |
Charlton away, possibly New Year’s Day. 90s or 00s, not sure. Frozen. Anyone else remember it? |
I was just thinking the same, I remember sat at London Bridge waiting for a train on the way back to Sussex where I lived at the time for what seemed like an eternity made worse by the fact it was a bank holiday timetable, not so sure it was colder than the Boro game that got abandoned though |  |
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| Coldest football Match you have ever been to?? on 22:06 - Oct 28 with 4878 views | Melford |
Tranmere away in the FA Cup in 1993, open terrace and it was the coldest I can remember. I was 14. That was the time when people bought bits of cut up paper, and chucked them in the air as the teams came out, ticker-tape reception kind of thing. This bunch of lads behind where me and the old man were standing chucked a load which was made up of cut up porno mags and they weren't cut up very small, the way I kept warm that day was sneakily trying to pick up these pieces of grot mag when no-one was looking. |  |
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| Coldest football Match you have ever been to?? on 22:09 - Oct 28 with 4873 views | bluewein |
| Coldest football Match you have ever been to?? on 19:46 - Oct 28 by stonojnr |
Bristol Rovers away in the FA cup 98, 3rd Jan, it had snowed, the wind was blowing a gale and it hailed as well, people were literally using the portacabin toilets to shelter in.
coldest at home I think was either a reserve game or youth cup game, couldnt feel my feet or hands at the end of it, though Sheff Utd at home in the prem league was pretty parky too |
You may have been sheltered in the toilet. I was busy honking up in it after a dodgy pasty. The old man was supposed to be looking after me but was too busy running around celebrating after watching Stockwells goal through the window... |  |
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| Coldest football Match you have ever been to?? on 22:54 - Oct 28 with 4842 views | Ryorry |
| Coldest football Match you have ever been to?? on 22:06 - Oct 28 by Melford |
Tranmere away in the FA Cup in 1993, open terrace and it was the coldest I can remember. I was 14. That was the time when people bought bits of cut up paper, and chucked them in the air as the teams came out, ticker-tape reception kind of thing. This bunch of lads behind where me and the old man were standing chucked a load which was made up of cut up porno mags and they weren't cut up very small, the way I kept warm that day was sneakily trying to pick up these pieces of grot mag when no-one was looking. |
You've reminded me of Grimsby away, the night we lost by a hat-trick iirc & George Burley lost his job.
Another open terrace, and whilst probably not the coldest, was certainly the wettest - kept coming down in buckets throughout the 90 mins. We got a drenching, both literally & metaphorically. | |
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| Coldest football Match you have ever been to?? on 22:56 - Oct 28 with 4839 views | TrumptonBlue |
A midweek game at QPR in December 1998. Flippin' freezing, but was warmed up by two Cruyff turns from Jamie Clapham and a late equaliser from Matty Holland.
The season before we'd gone there on the opening day and it was absolutely roasting. There must have been a good 30 degree temperature difference between those two visits. |  | | |
| Coldest football Match you have ever been to?? on 23:12 - Oct 28 with 4830 views | StNeotsBlue |
| Coldest football Match you have ever been to?? on 18:44 - Oct 28 by Guthrum |
Not sure it was that cold, but the snow during (and, particularly, on the way home from) the Coventry away game in 2012 - when Chopra scored a last-minute winner - was rather memorable. Took me about three hours to do a journey which should have taken one. |
I'd arranged a lift home with my WBA supporting mate that day, the plan was I'd wander down to the M6 junction and he'd pick me up en route. My phone died and he got stuck in a car park. Was there freezing for about an hour and half.
The Bristol Rovers game with hail stones the size of beach balls raining down was a mare too, I went and stood in the bogs for about 10 minutes and for the only time ever couldn't give a monkey's about what happened on the pitch. |  | | |
| Coldest football Match you have ever been to?? on 23:19 - Oct 28 with 4824 views | textbackup |
possibly boro away, armstrongs debut and won 2-0 (or maybe 2-1)
or that WBA game 1/4 final of carling cup. about 5000 fans there |  |
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| Coldest football Match you have ever been to?? on 23:26 - Oct 28 with 4815 views | Ryorry |
| Coldest football Match you have ever been to?? on 23:19 - Oct 28 by textbackup |
possibly boro away, armstrongs debut and won 2-0 (or maybe 2-1)
or that WBA game 1/4 final of carling cup. about 5000 fans there |
Was also there for that Boro game, we might've been sitting next to each other!
Do you remember singing "thank you very much for Alun Armstrong' to the tune of 'Aintree Iron' at them? Enjoyed that! | |
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| Coldest football Match you have ever been to?? on 23:43 - Oct 28 with 4795 views | Churchman |
| Coldest football Match you have ever been to?? on 19:46 - Oct 28 by stonojnr |
Bristol Rovers away in the FA cup 98, 3rd Jan, it had snowed, the wind was blowing a gale and it hailed as well, people were literally using the portacabin toilets to shelter in.
coldest at home I think was either a reserve game or youth cup game, couldnt feel my feet or hands at the end of it, though Sheff Utd at home in the prem league was pretty parky too |
Interesting how often Bristol Rovers are cropping up on this. We went to a 3rd round game in the mid 80s at Eastville not long after it’d burnt down. There was snow at the side of the motorway as we approached and the portacabin toilet with an indoor lake with steam coming out of it. We won 2-1 when the ball ballooned off somebody’s shins. An abiding memory was after the game swearing at my brown Vauxhall’s Nova’s Mickey Mouse heater to hurry up after we clambered in utterly frozen. [Post edited 29 Oct 2019 7:32]
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