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Plenty of stories about the coldest and the wettest over the years but what's one you've been to either in the UK or abroad where you felt genuinely like you were going to pass out and wondered how the players found in possible to run around?
Mine - Birmingham City at home, opening game of the season 2000/01. So hot, some poor kid rejected his lunch the row in-front of us on the lower loft. The stench, oh God the stench. There was no escaping it. The match was terrible too.
Hottest Football Match you've been to? on 15:51 - Jul 11 by Metallica_Hoop
Home V's Blackpool front of the Lower loft first game of the season.
Toasty.
(no pun intended)
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Yep, I was about to say the same match v Blackpool. 5-0 Ainsworth's debut, first match after losing the playoff final in Cardiff.
The other one that comes to mind was last game of the season 1999-2000 away at Pompey. We won 3-0 or possibly 3-1. Langley scored a long range screamer at the far end. Gallen came on as sub and scored a great goal as well (his last game before he left for Huddersfield)
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Hottest Football Match you've been to? on 16:05 - Jul 11 with 5228 views
Ipswich first game of the 97/98 season. Took my misses to her first ever game, very excited hyping up how great a forward like of Spencer, Sheron, Sinclair and Gallen was going to be. We drew 0-0 and she passed out through heat stroke. Not a great start really.
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Hottest Football Match you've been to? on 16:09 - Jul 11 with 5195 views
The Lower Loft is a total heat trap - I used to sit in there when my son was younger, and the first home game of the season often took place in heatwave conditions that would see loads of little kids (and occasionally their parents) complaining of splitting headaches and feeling sick. (Insert joke about the actual football here.)
Seen more than one spectacular vomiting, with the poor lad in the Jude costume (who must already have been half dead) backing away in horror.
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Hottest Football Match you've been to? on 16:17 - Jul 11 with 5157 views
Hottest Football Match you've been to? on 15:51 - Jul 11 by Metallica_Hoop
Home V's Blackpool front of the Lower loft first game of the season.
Toasty.
(no pun intended)
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Definitely this. I believe that was the hottest ever day in the UK that day. Heathrow was something like 37.8c!! I was with E17 Hoop and we stopped hugging each other when we scored as we had shared far too many bodily fluids after the first goal.
They actually ran out of bottles of water in the Loft that day. I think that is the only game I have ever been to where the ref got a round of applause for stopping the game so the players could have drinks.
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Hottest Football Match you've been to? on 16:18 - Jul 11 with 5150 views
Oh I do remember playing Spurs in the last home game of the season mid 90s, Les scored twice just before he left, and it was so hot the back legs of the white plastic chair my rather large grandfather was sitting on outside The Goldhawk melted and tipped him out towards the bus lane.
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Hottest Football Match you've been to? on 16:21 - Jul 11 with 5138 views
For Rangers would be Blackpool at home - trains back were delayed due to melted tracks. Celtic at home was warm as well.
Hottest match would be Macedonia v Scotland in 2008 I think. Mid afternoon kick-off, 35 degrees, uncovered terrace, not refreshments available and we lost 1-0 🤣
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Hottest Football Match you've been to? on 16:47 - Jul 11 with 5039 views
Blackpool at home probably the hottest, but as I was in ER stand, didn't seem too bad, MK Dons the other afternoon though I was definitely hotter then as we were in full sun all match, so personally that gets my vote.
Other notables for me Chepstow Racing - Coldest, Towcester Racing - Windiest, Newbury Racing - Wettest - abandoned after 5 races because the ambulance track was flooded! Hotter than both Blackpool and MK Dons was Hockey at the Olympic Hockey Arena - not for the Olympics, but that WAS hot that day!
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Hottest Football Match you've been to? on 18:02 - Jul 11 with 4942 views
The Blackpool game, although Atletico Madrid v Sevilla in May with no shade was hard work too.
Also managed to do a late kick off Atletico game which finished close to midnight, may have been first game of the season, due to being summer. That was different!
Hottest Football Match you've been to? on 16:05 - Jul 11 by TheChef
Portsmouth game last day of the season (Gallen's 'last' game) in the uncovered away end was pretty damn warm.
By all accounts though that Blackpool home game was a furnace.
Was at both, would say Blackpool. Pompey away, open end sat on those wooden benches, Langley screamer, great day out and nothing on the game. Night out in Southsea to finish it off!
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Hottest Football Match you've been to? on 20:32 - Jul 11 with 4703 views
Cant remember the game but I think it was the promotion season 2011, was so hot in the west Paddock I went to the kiosk and bought myself and the kids a couple of bottles of water each, ( I never leave my seat during a game) by half time there wasn’t any left to be bought.
favourite cheese mature Cheddar. FFS there is no such thing as the EPL
Blackpool has to be the hottest, but honorable mentions to
Portsmouth away 97/98 The Chelsea "freindly" when Leroy Griffiths scored Arsenal away first game of the season 91 And also the Palace 6-0 game was bloody hot if memory serves
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