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They left Preston at 11.30am this morning, they would probably have been well South of Birmingham when they found out the match might be off and by the time it was called off probably somewhere near Oxford
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Didn't a Newcastle v Plymouth game once get called off, about an hour before kick off ?
I remember an FA Cup game against Reading in the late 90's that got 'called off' because one of their fans phoned Saints to say the pitch was frozen, so the game was off. Saints somehow found out it was a hoax call and had to recall all the players in, then travel up. I think we lost 3-1, with Ostenstad getting our goal
I remember travelling to Leicester away in the mid-80's and the game being abandoned due to the pitch resembling a paddy field, it rained that much. I think it was only 10 minutes or so into the game before the ref called it off. Absolute farce.
I remember travelling to Leicester away in the mid-80's and the game being abandoned due to the pitch resembling a paddy field, it rained that much. I think it was only 10 minutes or so into the game before the ref called it off. Absolute farce.
Was there !! :-)
It was supposed to be a featured game on MOTD - remember they only showed highlights of a few pre-selected games back then.
The ball was hardly moving when they kicked it. 1 player, can't remember who or from which side, but after sliding a fair way, was making swimming gestures.
That Port Vale away FA Cup match should have been called off too !!
Going back even further, the game at Leyton Orient in 1966 was called off due to a waterlogged pitch. A few of us went up by coach (Possibly operated by Shamrock & Rambler or one of the other coach companies offering away game trips) The driver managed to find out other game options in London and we ended up on the terraces of Griffin Park to watch Brentford play Hull. Good thing was our penultimate away game that season was at Brisbane Lane and were amongst hordes of Saints fans watching the 1-1 draw which effectively secured our first ever promotion to Div 1.
Didn't a Newcastle v Plymouth game once get called off, about an hour before kick off ?
I remember an FA Cup game against Reading in the late 90's that got 'called off' because one of their fans phoned Saints to say the pitch was frozen, so the game was off. Saints somehow found out it was a hoax call and had to recall all the players in, then travel up. I think we lost 3-1, with Ostenstad getting our goal
It was a league cup game (midweek) the players, thinking they had the evening off allegedly went on the piss and had to be rounded up (pre mobile phones) The fa cup game a few seasons later was a 1-3 defeat at Elm Park, Benali got sent off and the game is etched into my mind as it was possibly the coldest I’ve ever been at a football game.
It was supposed to be a featured game on MOTD - remember they only showed highlights of a few pre-selected games back then.
The ball was hardly moving when they kicked it. 1 player, can't remember who or from which side, but after sliding a fair way, was making swimming gestures.
That Port Vale away FA Cup match should have been called off too !!
It was supposed to be a featured game on MOTD - remember they only showed highlights of a few pre-selected games back then.
The ball was hardly moving when they kicked it. 1 player, can't remember who or from which side, but after sliding a fair way, was making swimming gestures.
That Port Vale away FA Cup match should have been called off too !!
It was Steve Lynex.
I would love to see us try to play Rustyball in 1980s conditions.
I would love to see us try to play Rustyball in 1980s conditions.
Edit: while I was searching 1885 beat me to it!
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Looking back at that now is as funny as f*ck - but it wasn't on the day. Christ knows how the game was even allowed to kick off!
I went for a pee in the away end before driving home and there was a bloke stood next to me dressed in head to toe in biker gear. He'd ridden up all that way on a Yamaha and the poor sod looked like a drowned rat - absolutely drenched. At least I would dry out in my Ford Sierra 2.0 Ghia by the time I reached the A34 at Didcot!
The coldest I have ever been at a game was Nottingham away.
Luckily you weren't at the away game at Sunderland, March 1978, I was at Durham Uni at the time and hooked up with a dozen or so Saints fans who'd travelled up from the New Forest that morning. They had about two overcoats between them as the icy gales seared into Roker from the North Sea.
'It wasn't this cold in Ringwood yesterday' said the girl sitting next to me as her lips started to turn blue.
I remember travelling to Leicester away in the mid-80's and the game being abandoned due to the pitch resembling a paddy field, it rained that much. I think it was only 10 minutes or so into the game before the ref called it off. Absolute farce.
Also went to that game (on Foley’s coach).
You did get a voucher when you exited the ground for the replay!!! Mine never got used!!
Looking back at that now is as funny as f*ck - but it wasn't on the day. Christ knows how the game was even allowed to kick off!
I went for a pee in the away end before driving home and there was a bloke stood next to me dressed in head to toe in biker gear. He'd ridden up all that way on a Yamaha and the poor sod looked like a drowned rat - absolutely drenched. At least I would dry out in my Ford Sierra 2.0 Ghia by the time I reached the A34 at Didcot!
Honestly, I went to that abandoned Leicester game on public transport and didn’t get wet all day! Started belting down en route to Waterloo from Staines, under cover at Waterloo, tube to Kings X / St Pancras, train to Leicester, we dived across the road from the side exit of Leicester BR into a conveniently located pub. Taxi from the pub door to Filbert Street. Taxi allowed to drop us at the away turnstiles that were in a tunnel with a road running through it that was under the away end. Coming out we didn’t rush as there was a long queue for tokens so when we got on back out through the turnstiles the local police were packing up and offered a small group of us a lift back to Leicester BR in an otherwise three quarters empty police crew transit van as that was where they were going! It was still hammering it down and the funniest thing on the slow ride back in heavy traffic were dozens of soaking wet LCFC fans walking back to town all assumed we’d been nicked and were pointing at us laughing and making assorted hand gestures. Even the 4 coppers thought it was funny as the joke was on them not us, we just smiled and waved… Back to Leicester BR under the canopy, back in the pub across the road, then train back to St Pancras. By the time.we got back to London it had stopped raining.
Didn't we once have a cup tie at The Dell postponed not because of a frozen pitch but because of frozen pipes in the bogs? When the match was replayed I'm sure I recall the away fans singing "Where's your plumber gone?"
It was a Cup quarter-final which we won 2-0; what’s not to like??!!??
I drove up on the Saturday and it snowed quite a bit then. It also snowed on the drive home on the Sunday night.
One of my favourite away weekenders.
We drove up the day before too and went to Bolton v Villa, an evening kick off. Was amazed the game went ahead as plenty of snow about and had to walk through a heavy blizzard on way to the ground. Fvcking freezing it was.
It helped us acclimatise though and made the next day feel like we were in Dubai.
Didn't we once have a cup tie at The Dell postponed not because of a frozen pitch but because of frozen pipes in the bogs? When the match was replayed I'm sure I recall the away fans singing "Where's your plumber gone?"
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Crewe at home, I think.
We drew the re-arranged game and I remember going up there for the replay, where Dodd scored a screamer.
We drew the re-arranged game and I remember going up there for the replay, where Dodd scored a screamer.
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yep, I remember going to the replay. Cruising at 3-0 but nearly ended up throwing it away. I think Simon Charlton did a fantastic match-saving header in the dying seconds. Got a lift there and back with a chap who saw speed limits as a challenge rather than a warning. If Wigan was the scariest journey weatherwise, Crewe was undoubtedly the scariest from a psychopathic driver point of view.
yep, I remember going to the replay. Cruising at 3-0 but nearly ended up throwing it away. I think Simon Charlton did a fantastic match-saving header in the dying seconds. Got a lift there and back with a chap who saw speed limits as a challenge rather than a warning. If Wigan was the scariest journey weatherwise, Crewe was undoubtedly the scariest from a psychopathic driver point of view.
Having a bit of a memory for the inane, I remember being stood near Barry Venison and Neil Heaney in our away end up at Crewe that night.
I have seen some comments by Barry Venison on a Saints Facestalk site recently; he made some very complimentary comments about Saints and seems a thoroughly good egg.
Yeah saw many at the Totton game yesterday, did have a fair bit of sympathy with them for what happened, but at the same time this wasn’t exactly something either team could foresee and wasn’t the usual waterlogged pitch to which the games called off only an hour before KO etc… as they weren’t even complaining much because there was so little more that could’ve been done
Didn't we once have a cup tie at The Dell postponed not because of a frozen pitch but because of frozen pipes in the bogs? When the match was replayed I'm sure I recall the away fans singing "Where's your plumber gone?"
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I had travelled down from London for that game before finding out.
Also remember a game against West Ham in the 90's was rained off and found out about it on the on the train down with the London Saints.
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