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Standing on the open terrace in the Milton Road end. Gale force winds, rain, hailstones the size of golf balls. Players were even taken off for about a quarter of an hour in the second half while 500-600 of us just stood there being battered by the elements.
The break did us good on the pitch though. We went off 2-1 down and turned round the deficit to win 3-2. Cue limbs before the phrase was coined. A very wet me got even wetter as in the celebrations, landed on the ground among a sea of bodies.
Trying to warm up in that coach on the way back was futile and I'm amazed I didn't catch pneumonia.
Edit. It wasn't the Milton end. We stood in the opposite end. The Milton end was the one that our very own Milton seemed to enjoy scoring at.
I wouldn't say the conditions per se were horrendous but the fog for that Wigan 2 - 1 where we we went top under Royle is as thick a fog as I have ever seen at Portman Road
It featured the best goal I have seen live
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Alcohol is the answer but I can't remember the question!
Worst ever weather conditions you have watched a game in? on 14:31 - Dec 7 by gainsboroughblue
A few years later, we played there first game of the Prem season in the sunshine and won 3-0 with Ian Marshall scoring for us rather than, as usually was the case, against us.
Suffice to say I wasn't at that one. I obviously preferred going up there in freezing February while we are languishing in mid-table in Division Two.
Sub-zero temperatures with an arctic wind whipping drizzle across the ground combined with no shelter whatsoever away at Ely City with AFC Sudbury circa 2002.
I'm one of the people who was blamed for getting Paul Cook sacked. PM for the full post.
Worst ever weather conditions you have watched a game in? on 14:35 - Dec 7 by bluelagos
That was the game when I went back to the pub (at half time) and the landlady felt so sorry for me she sent her husband to get me a jumper.
She wouldn't let me leave without it - and I went back the next season to return it :-)
Twtd indeed
That’s a great story. My northern landlady story is sadder.
Went to Prenton Park about 1982 or 83. John Lyons, the Colchester forward, had committed suicide just a couple of days earlier. (Not relevant to the story but Tranmere, I think with Bryan Hamilton as manager, looked like they were going out of business within a few days.) In the pub before the game Hal Mason, long-time reporter for the Evening Gazette, asked the landlady if she knew a shop where he could get black ribbon. She said she had some, … and she went upstairs and sewed the black armbands that the Colchester players wore that evening.
Worst ever weather conditions you have watched a game in? on 15:19 - Dec 7 by PhilTWTD
Which one? Had a couple off at Maine Road, Manchester living up to its reputation.
I remember a Linighan back pass holding up in the water on the pitch, leading to a goal. Think that would've been 93-94. The re-arranged game marked Franny Lee's first game as chairman.
Pretty sure a League Cup tie was abandoned as well. 2000-01.
Worst ever weather conditions you have watched a game in? on 16:41 - Dec 7 by Sharkey
That’s a great story. My northern landlady story is sadder.
Went to Prenton Park about 1982 or 83. John Lyons, the Colchester forward, had committed suicide just a couple of days earlier. (Not relevant to the story but Tranmere, I think with Bryan Hamilton as manager, looked like they were going out of business within a few days.) In the pub before the game Hal Mason, long-time reporter for the Evening Gazette, asked the landlady if she knew a shop where he could get black ribbon. She said she had some, … and she went upstairs and sewed the black armbands that the Colchester players wore that evening.
Dear old Hal Mason. That's a name I've not heard in a long time. He was the go to reporter for Colchester games when I listened to Radio Orwell in the 80s'. It was always Barraclough/Slater/Knights for Ipswich, Julian Smith at Norwich and Hal for Colchester.
That open end in the snow at Bristol Rovers 1978 was mighty cold!
On a personal note, Town 3 WBA 0 FA Cup 1971, played in torrential rain - as a 13 year old I hitch-hiked from near Debenham (as I did until I got a car 4 years later!), got absolutely soaked, eventually someone kindly gave me a lift and I saw the end of the first half, drenched!
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Worst ever weather conditions you have watched a game in? on 13:56 - Dec 7 by homer_123
Was it Oxford a couple of three seasons back with horizontal rain?
Bolton - brass fecking monkeys as well.
That said the coldest I have ever watched a game was at Layer Road, can't quite remember when but it was baltic and half way through the first half, the wind picked up massively and it was just awful.
I don't know how that game didn't get called off. I distinctly remember one of our players getting fouled and Klinsmanning for about 10 yards.
There was also the foggy Oxford game too.
All Oxford away games are rubbish weather lol.
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Worst ever weather conditions you have watched a game in? on 17:04 - Dec 7 by RobTheMonk
I don't know how that game didn't get called off. I distinctly remember one of our players getting fouled and Klinsmanning for about 10 yards.
There was also the foggy Oxford game too.
All Oxford away games are rubbish weather lol.
The Oxford game in a storm featured some classic League One refereeing, whereby having allowed James Norwood to get away with a foul on an Oxford defender as he was chasing a through ball, the referee then didn’t give a penalty when Norwood was rugby tackled to the ground in the area.
I wasn’t at that game, though I was at the Gillingham game mentioned above - McKenna’s second game as manager. I drove down from Oxfordshire in monsoon rain all the way. Luckily, given we were in that crappy open temporary stand, the rain stopped at kick off, before returning with a vengeance around the 75 minute mark. However, we were 4-0 up by then, so it didn’t affect the mood.
My first live game seeing Ipswich in the flesh was vs Plymouth at Home Park on Tuesday 21 October 1986. My parents and I were sat in the main stand, under a roof. I looked over at the 100 or so Town fans stood on the old open terrace, and wished I could be with them, even though it was chucking it down with rain, the wind was blowing all four corner flags in different directions and we lost 2-0.
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Worst ever weather conditions you have watched a game in? on 14:04 - Dec 7 by ParisBlue
Coldest was Charlton New Years Day 1997. One of the few games not to be postponed (unfortunately), half-time shortened. Ref blew up bang on 90 mins, not a second more. Freezing...
I was at that game. I remember zilch about it beyond being as cold as hell and beyond caring when the whistle blew. Looking it up the score was 1-1. The previous season we’d won there 2-0 and Marshall banged in a great volley. It was not the warmest that day, but it was virtually budgie smuggler weather compared to 97 NYD.
Highfield Rd Coventry. I went there loads of times and it was always as cold as hell. The worst was a game I went to with Mrs C one December or Jan. At half time I decided the only solution was Bovril. Two steaming plastic cups of lava-ril kept hands warm for a good 20 mins into the second half. Worked a treat. Tasted good too.
The oddest was Liverpool at home in 92 in the FA Cup. Aside from Wark nearly breaking the bar with a header the wind won. It blew an absolute gale.
I wasn’t at Bristol Rovers away in 78 but I was there in about 84 when we won I think 2-1 at Eastville. The ground had burnt down and it was snowy and very cold. The portaloo sh£thouse was being rocked up and down and the sea of fluids inside was rolling up and down like a wave machine. Yellow steam was coming out of it like each end of the brick horror place of worship behind Churchmans.
And the heater on my Vauxhall Nova 1.0 saloon (brown with beige interior) wasn’t working. We didn’t care. Fun day!
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Another vote for Bristol Rovers away in the cup in 1998. Rained, then hailed all match. Richard Wright took a goalkick which got to the half-way line, turned back and went out for a corner. Mark Venus broke his toe and didn’t realise until he was halfway home on the team bus.
Other contenders would be Charlton away on NYD 1997 for a 1-1 draw, the 3-0 in the snow at home to Leicester - and one that the likes of Gainsborough and Illy I thought would mention is Port Vale away on NYD 1990. Lost 0-5 and it threw it down all day. We managed to get in the seats at the other end… they were turning later arrivals away and sending them to the open terrace. My first away game. Thought it can’t get any worse so I stuck at it all these years.
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P 1162, W 506, D 298, L 358, F 1749, A 1435
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Worst ever weather conditions you have watched a game in? on 17:50 - Dec 7 by Mullet
Yep I hid behind a fat bloke and pied my head round him to see.
Also Wigan away with that fog where we couldn’t see the other end
A friend of ours had underdressed somewhat for the occasion and she decided to take refuge in the ladies, which she discovered was already packed with those who had had the same idea.
The fog game I remember best was the Veil Park 3-1 win with all the goals at the other end to the Town support and none of which were visible. We only knew Town had scored when Danny Sonner emerged from the mist with his arm raised.
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Worst ever weather conditions you have watched a game in? on 16:47 - Dec 7 by gainsboroughblue
I remember a Linighan back pass holding up in the water on the pitch, leading to a goal. Think that would've been 93-94. The re-arranged game marked Franny Lee's first game as chairman.
Pretty sure a League Cup tie was abandoned as well. 2000-01.
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The 2000/01 game seemed in no danger whatsoever until a biblical downpour about abour an hour before kick-off. If I remember rightly, we took the lead through Marcus Stewart and the ref diplomatically waited until City levelled before abandoning it.
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Worst ever weather conditions you have watched a game in? on 13:56 - Dec 7 by homer_123
Was it Oxford a couple of three seasons back with horizontal rain?
Bolton - brass fecking monkeys as well.
That said the coldest I have ever watched a game was at Layer Road, can't quite remember when but it was baltic and half way through the first half, the wind picked up massively and it was just awful.
Yeah rain one season, freezing fog the next. Couldn't see a thing in that fog. Ridiculous that they continued. The rainy match I cycled, (not from Suffolk!)but had complete wet weather gear so wasn't too bad.
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The abandoned game against Middlesbrough was one of the coldest at home I remember. Only time the pitch froze after the cover had been removed, if I remember rightly.
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Worst ever weather conditions you have watched a game in? on 17:36 - Dec 7 by ITFC_Forever
Another vote for Bristol Rovers away in the cup in 1998. Rained, then hailed all match. Richard Wright took a goalkick which got to the half-way line, turned back and went out for a corner. Mark Venus broke his toe and didn’t realise until he was halfway home on the team bus.
Other contenders would be Charlton away on NYD 1997 for a 1-1 draw, the 3-0 in the snow at home to Leicester - and one that the likes of Gainsborough and Illy I thought would mention is Port Vale away on NYD 1990. Lost 0-5 and it threw it down all day. We managed to get in the seats at the other end… they were turning later arrivals away and sending them to the open terrace. My first away game. Thought it can’t get any worse so I stuck at it all these years.
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Port Vale NYD 1990. Yep, that was another one. I had the mother of hangovers as well, as it turned out, as did half our team. Took an absolute age to get home as well as the M6 had lane closures.
Those burgers at Vale Park were bloody lovely though. The one redeeming thing about the day.
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