demon_dog Posted 26 January 2014 Posted 26 January 2014 Seeing the scenes at the ground yesterday with thunder and lighting. Followed by strong swirling winds, a hailstorm and heavy rain. What is the worst weather you recall at one of city's games? Incidentally Alan Young saying on R.L. that the match was in danger of being called off due to the advertising boarding blowing onto the pitch. Must say I would have thought these would have been fixed down better.
AndWhat? Posted 26 January 2014 Posted 26 January 2014 Burnley away New Year's Day 2005? Called off after 19 minutes. And Southampton away 2006?? Got absolutely soaked through walking to the ground and the game got delayed by 30 minutes cause of the weather.
broughtonblue Posted 26 January 2014 Posted 26 January 2014 Ipswich.Got to agree, should have been abandoned, but last year against boro (again!) was the worst I've known for actually getting to a match
StanSP Posted 26 January 2014 Posted 26 January 2014 Ipswich. Portsmouth. They're 2 that come immediately to mind.
Soar Fox Posted 26 January 2014 Posted 26 January 2014 Everton at home in the 2003/04 season was due to high winds. I think an Everton fan got killed that day by debris that blew off.
Strokes Posted 26 January 2014 Posted 26 January 2014 Seeing the scenes at the ground yesterday with thunder and lighting. Followed by strong swirling winds, a hailstorm and heavy rain. What is the worst weather you recall at one of city's games? Incidentally Alan Young saying on R.L. that the match was in danger of being called off due to the advertising boarding blowing onto the pitch. Must say I would have thought these would have been fixed down better. I remember us playing Blackburn at filbo with fog so thick you couldn't even see the dugouts and I was in the carling stand. Suprisingly it ended 0-0.Pretty much everytime I have been to fratton park the weather has been awful and stood in the stand without a roof. 2
syston_fox Posted 26 January 2014 Posted 26 January 2014 I remember us playing Blackburn at filbo with fog so thick you couldn't even see the dugouts and I was in the carling stand. Suprisingly it ended 0-0. Pretty much everytime I have been to fratton park the weather has been awful and stood in the stand without a roof. Must have been really bad vision where you sat because it was actually 1-1! 1
FuriousFox46 Posted 26 January 2014 Posted 26 January 2014 Middlesbrough at home last season?I wish they'd stop bringing their weather down with them
Xen Posted 26 January 2014 Posted 26 January 2014 (edited) Got to agree, should have been abandoned, but last year against boro (again!) was the worst I've known for actually getting to a match Transport was awful and the match probably shouldn't have been played, but the match conditions were pretty darn good, all things considered! Edited 26 January 2014 by Xen
Deucalion Posted 26 January 2014 Posted 26 January 2014 I was going to say the Blackburn game. It was surreal. I was sat in the Kop and when play went over the halfway line, you couldn't even tell a football match was going on. I thought it was 1-1 too.
Vlad the Fox Posted 26 January 2014 Posted 26 January 2014 notts county in the zds cup back in the 90's. I don't think I've ever been as drenched, and stood ankle deep in water.
Foxy harry Posted 26 January 2014 Posted 26 January 2014 boro last season no rain but fan travel was awful
Ashley Posted 26 January 2014 Posted 26 January 2014 Everton at home in the 2003/04 season was due to high winds. I think an Everton fan got killed that day by debris that blew off. Leicester still send flowers every year on the anniversary of the death.
Stevie Synex Posted 26 January 2014 Posted 26 January 2014 Leicester City versus Southampton on October 15th 1983 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i8s6cHS3gc 4
Raw Dykes Posted 26 January 2014 Posted 26 January 2014 I was going to say the Blackburn game. It was surreal. I was sat in the Kop and when play went over the halfway line, you couldn't even tell a football match was going on. I thought it was 1-1 too. I was sat in the Kop for that one, as well. Behind a pillar. Not that it mattered - couldn't see a pissing thing. You're right - it was 1-1. I can remember, coz the first 4 or 5 matches I went to all ended by that scoreline. Strange that bad weather has affected the same fixture two seasons in a row, and no others, if memory serves. 1
wakeyfox01 Posted 26 January 2014 Posted 26 January 2014 Home to Stockport in the League One season. Rain was blowing into the stands and I was getting wet in row Y. Everyone had to move to the back of the stand. Can't remember the score but remember Chris O'Grady scoring a wonder goal for them.
Raj Posted 26 January 2014 Posted 26 January 2014 Bolton away. Midweek at the old ground. Mark mcghee was in charge. Torrential rain uncovered crap 0-0too
Dan0305 Posted 26 January 2014 Posted 26 January 2014 Plymouth away a few years back. Called off at half time, closest we came to a goal was a clearence from Danny tiatto 2
Filbert_Ross Posted 26 January 2014 Posted 26 January 2014 Bolton away. Midweek at the old ground. Mark mcghee was in charge. Torrential rain uncovered crap 0-0too I went that too. Drenched.
Buce Posted 26 January 2014 Posted 26 January 2014 I remember a game at Filbert St in the early 70s when the water and mud was ankle deep in places. Len Glover missed an open goal - the ball literally stuck in the swampy goalmouth.
FrankieADZ Posted 26 January 2014 Posted 26 January 2014 Think Man City away at Maine Road was another one where the weather was pretty awful
Trav Le Bleu Posted 26 January 2014 Posted 26 January 2014 Leicester City versus Southampton on October 15th 1983 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i8s6cHS3gc Steve Lynex swimming (was jst looking for this on YouTube)
ithuriel Posted 26 January 2014 Posted 26 January 2014 Promotion season under Little, beat WBA 4-2? and in the first half there was a thunderstorm with torrential rain that drowned the pitch with some amazing lightning bolts lighting up the night sky. Same season Tranmere at home and Leicester was covered in snow and ice but the club and volunteers had worked hard to shovel the snow off to the sides of the pitch which was like a mud bath and it was so bitterly cold, I have never known a colder day at any City match. Was quite funny though seeing David Oldfield take the ball past a number of Tranmere players at pace but was unable to stop, went straight off the side of the pitch and went head over heels in the snow and landed on his backside looking bemused
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