bluej wrote:sandman wrote:Its a bit of snow, fucking poofs.
In Norway its minus 345 and everyones going about their business, people in Moscow would be fucking sunbathing in this.
Cocking crying tarts ruined my weds!!
The difference between those countries and ours is that they regularly suffer from this type of snowfall and have the infrastructure to deal with it - this is is a 1 in +10 year occurence so we aren't likely to have dozens of snow ploughs etc in storage. Because if we did you bet there would be people moaning about how councils were wasting the tax payers money.
I can't believe people are being critical of calling a football match off (which is a game ffs) when it would be potentially putting people's lives at risk if it was to go ahead.
Quite so fellas. Even here, there is a winter break for a reason. Although we all drive around with mandatory winter tyres, the simple fact is, the grass stops growing towards december and doesn't start again until about end of January. Of course some top stadia can keep their grass warm and hope.
Fact is the roots of the grass dont get repaired either during this time and a pitch will very quickly be ruined if you play on it during this time. The ground is also rock hard at the moment and exceptionally difficult to play football on.
Many Cities towns and villages have articficial turf and this is ok during winter for games , but apart from the one stadium on Bern all others are grass and they do need their break. So i can imagine in many other countries in europe they have the same problem.
Remember , what you've experienced today is the worst for 30 years. It happens every other week here and certainly you get very , very cold weather in Norway, Sweden , Germany, poland etc.
When I ran this morning it was on the limit for running at -10°C and i only did 10km today. I wouldn't run if it dips below this limit.