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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 was at that game and after Portsmouth had equalized from being two-nil down and looking the more likely team to score the next one, it looked like it might be a long, miserable, wet drive home. All the time we were ahead, I was half expecting the match to be abandoned (especially when the ref took the players off for 20 mins or so leaving us waiting in the pouring rain) but somehow it went the distance and we'd got the winner so getting soaked to the skin wasn't in vain. I'd spent the morning birding on Farlington Marshes but remember having to hunker down below the bank to escape from the incredibly strong, gusty wind. Happy memories,
Uppa Towen.
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Worst ever weather conditions you have watched a game in? on 11:09 - Dec 8 with 448 views
My memory is all over the place tbh. The year before (a 4 nil loss) was midweek evening game - and we then lost in the October 90 too.
Fair to say all the trips would have been cold as...
I'm crap with dates etc., but remember going to Oldham twice, quite quickly and getting stuffed 4-0 , or 4-1 both times. It was bloody freezing both trips and definitely snowing at one of them. At least one was a mid week evening kick off.
Bizarrely, I remember watching an Oldham ticket tout (God only knows why because the ground was half empty), approach the Ipswich directors outside the main stand, trying to sell them tickets.
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Worst ever weather conditions you have watched a game in? on 12:35 - Dec 8 with 407 views
1978 away 2-2 Bristol Rovers FA Cup, went by train, touch and go if game was on as concern about icy roads around ground and ice on terraces. Town fans in open end to add to miserable cold conditions. Players slipping on surface so an even game, Robin Turner saved the day with his equaliser!
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Worst ever weather conditions you have watched a game in? on 10:40 - Dec 9 with 341 views
Ipswich 0-0 Wolves on 07/03/2017. It was an absolutely freezing Tuesday night.
Zero shots on target from either team. 16 fouls. Both teams basically just passed it around the middle of the pitch for 90 minutes. Absolutely nothing from either team to distract you from the fact you weren't far away from cryotherapy.
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