Wonderwall wrote:Personally I think it was the right decision. The journey to the stadium was shocking last night. I was drenched and the trams were suspended so we headed to the bar inside piccadilly station whilst we waited for an update on the game.
Haven't been out in rain like that, which has lasted so long since I was a kid. It wasn't nice.
I see city square is closed tonight and there will only be a few kiosks open inside too. Understandable in the circumstances.
I sat in my car for what seemed an age while the rain was belting down and forming lakes on the roads to the ground from where I was. They were saying on the radio there was concern about the match going ahead as the ref had done an inspection of the pitch and the ball wasn't moving. They expected another inspection and the feeling was that as long as it didn't carry on like a monsoon the game would be ok as the pitch drains so well. mention was made of the thunder and lightening but not that it was going to be a major part of why the game was called off.
I was to meet my wife at the ground anyway so at just after 7 I set off walking in minimal rain but I did have to do the odd detour to avoid the lakes that had formed on the pavements in places as well as the roads. My wife had set off from a pub around Piccadilly to get a tram only to find they had stopped a few minutes earlier. Crazily she walked to the ground in just about the worst rain in many a year and was the original drowned rat when she got there.
Personally i think the game should have gone ahead altough maybe I am underplaying the safety issues and indeed the problems some would have had with even getting to the ground especially if it was reliant on metrolink.
Anyway I did see a game yesterday which we won well and it's off there again shortly
