What Was The Coldest Match You Have Ever Attended?

[BlueinBosnia]

I froze my balls off last Xmas at Molyneux.....I'm sure that Uwe's Duvet, BiB, MHiggi and FrozenFlapsFu can attest to the chill factor

I was fine. Wuss.

[mcfcshoz]

1st of jan 94 against newcastle i still thawin out now . was stood in the gallowgate end it was that cold i had to oour cups of coffee over my feet and we got beat 2 nil grrr

[BobbyJ1956]

There was a big freeze through the winter of 1962-63 when all football & rugby games were postponed for weeks and so were most of our school's matches. We only got a couple of games in. One was a Saturday morning in January at Stand Grammar School up near Bury. The pitch was bone hard and there was a wind that cut you in two. The teacher in charge was an Irish bloke who taught Geography but helped out with the football, he stood on the touchline yelling run around and you'll not be cold, don't be so soft. Our wingers never saw the ball and came off frozen and shaking.

[MHiggi]

I froze my balls off last Xmas at Molyneux.....I'm sure that Uwe's Duvet, BiB, MHiggi and FrozenFlapsFu can attest to the chill factor

I was fine. Wuss.

Same. Come back to the real world Ant.

[Chinners]

There was a big freeze through the winter of 1962-63 when all football & rugby games were postponed for weeks and so were most of our school's matches. We only got a couple of games in. One was a Saturday morning in January at Stand Grammar School up near Bury. The pitch was bone hard and there was a wind that cut you in two. The teacher in charge was an Irish bloke who taught Geography but helped out with the football, he stood on the touchline yelling run around and you'll not be cold, don't be so soft. Our wingers never saw the ball and came off frozen and shaking.

Pah, thats nothing you young whippersnapper .......

.... John68 remembers the original ballet on ice, when the crowds we in their 70k+ mark. Rattles hadn't been bought into the game then so he had to be content with a couple of lumps of coal that he's salvaged from his night job. Wibble. January 1905 was a tough year. Manchester was covered with a thick frost, some say as deep as half an inch, and the chill was a cool -8 but could quite easily reach -27 with a prevailing wind. City had won the FA cup some 9 months earlier and were now holding their own in the First Division (for the younger posters on here like me, this was apparently the original Top Division in English football back then. Dribble .. er .. He recalls it being sunny because his mam had her hair in a bun. It was always sunny when she did that ... um ... He'll also recall that he was wearing his best grey shorts that day. These had been passed down through 4 generations of his family altho at 17 years of age they were a tad tight now. Anyway the pitch was like an ice rink. John's legs were red raw from his chimney tunneling escapades and the icy wind was cutting through his Grandad vest ... no really, it was his grandad's vest, and all the while he was getting lumps of coal raining down on him from above. All the other 17 year olds in grey shorts were tossing their two lumps of coal up into the air . . . and at half time they had run out of grule

John would probably tell it better mind.

[BobbyJ1956]

Rattles hadn't been bought into the game then so he had to be content with a couple of lumps of coal that he's salvaged from his night job

Nay, Chinners lad, get tha facts straight. Folk had rattles then. Mine was given me by a neighbour who'd used it when he was an air-raid warden in the war. And tha should know that people hadn't been allowed to bring coal to a match since the great coal-throwing riot of 1928 when twenty U****d fans had to be dug out of a slag heap on Claremont Road.

[Goataldo]

There was a big freeze through the winter of 1962-63 when all football & rugby games were postponed for weeks and so were most of our school's matches. We only got a couple of games in. One was a Saturday morning in January at Stand Grammar School up near Bury. The pitch was bone hard and there was a wind that cut you in two. The teacher in charge was an Irish bloke who taught Geography but helped out with the football, he stood on the touchline yelling run around and you'll not be cold, don't be so soft. Our wingers never saw the ball and came off frozen and shaking.

Pah, thats nothing you young whippersnapper .......

.... John68 remembers the original ballet on ice, when the crowds we in their 70k+ mark. Rattles hadn't been bought into the game then so he had to be content with a couple of lumps of coal that he's salvaged from his night job. Wibble. January 1905 was a tough year. Manchester was covered with a thick frost, some say as deep as half an inch, and the chill was a cool -8 but could quite easily reach -27 with a prevailing wind. City had won the FA cup some 9 months earlier and were now holding their own in the First Division (for the younger posters on here like me, this was apparently the original Top Division in English football back then. Dribble .. er .. He recalls it being sunny because his mam had her hair in a bun. It was always sunny when she did that ... um ... He'll also recall that he was wearing his best grey shorts that day. These had been passed down through 4 generations of his family altho at 17 years of age they were a tad tight now. Anyway the pitch was like an ice rink. John's legs were red raw from his chimney tunneling escapades and the icy wind was cutting through his Grandad vest ... no really, it was his grandad's vest, and all the while he was getting lumps of coal raining down on him from above. All the other 17 year olds in grey shorts were tossing their two lumps of coal up into the air . . . and at half time they had run out of grule

John would probably tell it better mind.

And you tell the youth of today that, and they don't believe you!

[lets all have a disco]

Easily that Blackburn game a while back at Ewood on Boxing day,it was so cold that day.

Really fucking cold.

[Sheikhermaker]

Rattles hadn't been bought into the game then so he had to be content with a couple of lumps of coal that he's salvaged from his night job

Nay, Chinners lad, get tha facts straight. Folk had rattles then. Mine was given me by a neighbour who'd used it when he was an air-raid warden in the war. And tha should know that people hadn't been allowed to bring coal to a match since the great coal-throwing riot of 1928 when twenty U****d fans had to be dug out of a slag heap on Claremont Road.

As a resident of said Claremont road and witness to said slag heap, I must say it is a great shame that coal is banned from grounds these days.

[OhDannyBoy]

West Brom a few years back when it snowed the whole game. Bloody freezing! and also Lokeren at home in the uefa cup was pretty cold (might of been groclin, cant remember)

[ant london]

I froze my balls off last Xmas at Molyneux.....I'm sure that Uwe's Duvet, BiB, MHiggi and FrozenFlapsFu can attest to the chill factor

I was fine. Wuss.

Same. Come back to the real world Ant.

I was perishing cold myself

Fuckstains

[superkev8705]

Grimsby away was cold. Cant remember the year. 2000 maybe under Keegan. We won 2-0 anyway. Goater and Huckerby scored.

Im at Newcastle away on Sunday so we may have another contender in the making seems as we will literally be sat in the clouds.

[Blue Man Dan.]

Oldham away in the cup about 4 years ago ish? fucking hell that was cold, i still haven't warmed up.

[Moonchesteri]

Copenhagen in the waffa cup a couple of years ago, that was ferking freezing, mind you it didnt help that I brought innappropiate clothing.

It was pretty cold yeah.

I thought it wasn't so cold that day.. Defo not as cold as in Middlesbrough last January. That was freezing, especially imo inside the stadium, the wind went straight to my bones!

[Florida Blue]

1979 Minnesota Vikings at Chicago Bears -35F wind chill factor. (Hey it still is a football match)

[mcfc1632]

....whilst I am sure that it is not the coldest - just one I remember 'cos it is recent - is Spurs away last year - and the performance of our team did fuck all to warm us up!!

[Fidel Castro]

Chelsea at home about 4 or 5 years ago. Think we lost 1-0, Joe Cole scoring the winner. Thought I was going to die that night

[Craig B]

New Years Day 2002 - Sheff U Vs City

I'm sure there's been colder but I was on the front row and absolutely shivering my arse off - still was warmed by how good we were at the time ie. Keegan's table toppers! ;-)

[harry]

i think mine was luton in the old league cup back in 1978ish,i finished work early an set st8 off,when we got there they took my boots off me because they were steel toe capped,it was fckin freezing stood there on cold concrete so i took my donkey jacket off an stood on that,cunts the lot of em

[blootoof]

Oldham by a mile. Piss wet through and windy.

Chelsea at Maine rd, late midweek kickoff, late nineties was cold