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For me it was a game at Kenilworth Road, this time of year (possibly in 1977 not sure.) Their open concrete terracing was frigid and there was a half a gale blowing across it. My mate and and kept switching places so we could shield each other from the wind in shifts. I swear if I'd had to stand there another ten minutes I'd have gone to emergency with frostbite in my toes.
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The coldest/wettest you've ever been at a match on 14:54 - Jan 2 with 1436 views
Wettest; Reading at home in the SIMOD cup, it was like being stood under a waterfall at the front of the Loft. Swindon away sat on seats on an open terrace wasn't much better. Coldest; Carlisle away with driving sleet towards the away fans all game. I followed most of the match with my back to the pitch and only turned around when there was a bit of crowd excitement. Not sure, but I think we lost 1-0 too. Honorary mention for the Forest game during the miners strike and Blackburn away {-18ºC} when we came from 3-0 down at half time and pulled 2 back in the second half. Also the first time I ever met Saffa.
The grass is always greener.
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The coldest/wettest you've ever been at a match on 15:03 - Jan 2 with 1393 views
Coldest was at Loftus Road (Feb 2006) but Iceland v Trinidad & Tobago in a friendly. Never experienced that coldness before or since, not even oop norf.
Wettest was QPR v Reading, Simod cup thingy (or similar sponsor). In the walk from White City station to the ground the heavens opened and it absolutely deluged, far more than yesterday. Got absolutely soaked. Kick off delayed and had to sit there drenched. Game eventually started and I think we lost 3-1. Got home thoroughly miserable and wet from head to toe.
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The coldest/wettest you've ever been at a match on 15:11 - Jan 2 with 1365 views
Remember a Friday night game against Cardiff in the Holloway era, they smashed us with an Earnshaw hat-trick and it was absolutely bloody freezing that night.
Got absolutely soaked in an uncovered section for the Mestalla for a Valencia v Athletic Club game. I reckon more than 50% of the crowd buggered off before a late Valencia equaliser. Never seen such a hushed atmosphere for what was actually a big goal
Coldest - Stamford Bridge January 1991. A dreadful 2-0 defeat in a red/orange kit where Michael Meaker was our best player!
Wettest - The FA Cup 2-0 win against Arsenal in January 1990. My fault for standing in the East Paddock. One of my favourite matches and the noise when Sansom scored...!!!
Suffering since 1978.
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The coldest/wettest you've ever been at a match on 09:41 - Jan 2 by SydneyRs
For me coldest was Forest away in the 80s. The game also featured a 4 minute Nigel Clough hat trick and a disallowed QPR goal in a 4-0 defeat. Also travelled there and back to London with a Forest mate. I've had better days.
Another vote for this game Forest away feb 1st 1986 crowd was 11,538 & the majority of R's were seated in the lower tier of Brian Clough stand rather than on the open terrace , it was bloody Baltic that day .
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The coldest/wettest you've ever been at a match on 15:49 - Jan 2 with 1241 views
Wettest I seem to remember was in 1967 v Millwall. It bucketed down and my mate and I took pity on the two sisters from East Acton in front of us on the SAR open terraces and sheltered them under our coats. It got very cosy and we ended up taking them home and out on a trip to the zoo the next day. Epilogue: A fun day out but my mate didn't seem keen to further the relationships, so that was it.
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The coldest/wettest you've ever been at a match on 14:54 - Jan 2 by Esox_Lucius
Wettest; Reading at home in the SIMOD cup, it was like being stood under a waterfall at the front of the Loft. Swindon away sat on seats on an open terrace wasn't much better. Coldest; Carlisle away with driving sleet towards the away fans all game. I followed most of the match with my back to the pitch and only turned around when there was a bit of crowd excitement. Not sure, but I think we lost 1-0 too. Honorary mention for the Forest game during the miners strike and Blackburn away {-18ºC} when we came from 3-0 down at half time and pulled 2 back in the second half. Also the first time I ever met Saffa.
Mike, I drove you to that Blackburn match. -18c?????? No bloody way. Was cold but at -18c you would have had to push my car home! Maybe the Newcastle away game, which was Meticulous Mark’s first game on a Sunday lunchtime? during the same season?
Wettest was Swindon away on the open terrace during a torrential downpour for ninety minutes. Can't remember the year or the result or the competition, just the squelching slog back to the station.
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The coldest/wettest you've ever been at a match on 16:58 - Jan 2 with 1089 views
Not sure about coldest but the wettest was probably on Stratton Bank at the County Ground, for Swindon v QPR, in the League Cup, in 2008. We won and I remember that Ledesma revelled in the conditions, but, there was no cover and it chucked it down for the whole match.
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The coldest/wettest you've ever been at a match on 17:13 - Jan 2 with 1052 views
Was anyone at that lower league cup thing at Yeovil in 2001? A lot of the hardy Rs in the uncovered away terrace jumped over the hoardings into the covered stand where we were sat to get out of the driving rain!
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Arsenal FA Cup replay night at Loftus Road it was biblical, but we won with Kenny Sansom scoring for us against his old team . I was in the East paddock with my dad and we got soaked , but Rangers won so we were happy.
AND WHEN I DREAM , I DREAM ABOUT YOU AND WHEN I SCREAM I SCREAM ABOUT YOU!!!!!
The coldest/wettest you've ever been at a match on 15:46 - Jan 2 by losethedrum
Another vote for this game Forest away feb 1st 1986 crowd was 11,538 & the majority of R's were seated in the lower tier of Brian Clough stand rather than on the open terrace , it was bloody Baltic that day .
I bought a coffee at half time and it slipped through my hand as I couldn’t grip!
favourite cheese mature Cheddar. FFS there is no such thing as the EPL
The coldest/wettest you've ever been at a match on 11:24 - Jan 2 by MrSheen
In the Omniturf era, there was one home game, there was a home game when the temperature was -8. Two pairs of tracky-bottoms and I still shivered non-stop through the game.
Home v Barnsley I think was the only surviving game in the top 2 divisions was in match of the day
The coldest/wettest you've ever been at a match on 16:58 - Jan 2 by kernowhoop
Not sure about coldest but the wettest was probably on Stratton Bank at the County Ground, for Swindon v QPR, in the League Cup, in 2008. We won and I remember that Ledesma revelled in the conditions, but, there was no cover and it chucked it down for the whole match.
Ah. I have remembered the coldest one. That was at Swindon, too, on 12 January 1963. The big freeze of 1962-63 had started at Christmas 1962 and the thaw did not arrive until early March 1963 (off at a tangent, but, how prepared are you for another winter like that?).
The pitch was covered in hard-packed, frozen snow. At the 'warm'-up, it was clear that the Rangers players could hardly stand up. Our hosts, however, had been taken by their manager Bert Head, to the 'Bata' shoe shop - to buy basketball boots - on the morning of the match. They were much better able to stand up and play.
Only a tiny handful of games were played that Saturday. This one should not have been. But it was and Swindon won 5-0.
I had recently moved to a school in Swindon. That Saturday was miserable. So was Monday morning.
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The coldest/wettest you've ever been at a match on 15:46 - Jan 2 by losethedrum
Another vote for this game Forest away feb 1st 1986 crowd was 11,538 & the majority of R's were seated in the lower tier of Brian Clough stand rather than on the open terrace , it was bloody Baltic that day .
Another for this one too, me and an ex girlfriend were on that terrace and it was literally the coldest I’ve ever been, stood in a group of about 20 we cheered an 86th minute corner as though we’d just won the league, just to try and get warm. How the hell I managed to drive back home to Norfolk with frost bite I’ll never know.
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The coldest/wettest you've ever been at a match on 15:57 - Jan 2 by DWQPR
Mike, I drove you to that Blackburn match. -18c?????? No bloody way. Was cold but at -18c you would have had to push my car home! Maybe the Newcastle away game, which was Meticulous Mark’s first game on a Sunday lunchtime? during the same season?
Driving up the A43 to your house the road was white, the verges were white and the trees were white the temp on my dashboard said -18°C by the time we reached the Golden Cup it had warmed up to -15°C and I remember an R's fan wearing just a Tigger costume drinking outside. I also remember Armand Traore coming on at half time and absolutely bossing the central midfield.
The grass is always greener.
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The coldest/wettest you've ever been at a match on 12:19 - Jan 2 by DWQPR
Birmingham away NYD 1980. Went up by supporters coach and had Radio 2 on, announcing every couple of minutes that another game had succumbed to the Arctic weather. Yet miraculously we arrived at St Andrews to a game that was still going ahead. Pitch was white with frost, Gordon Hill wearing his wife’s tights, players slipping over everywhere. We were stood in the corner of the ground, diagonally opposite to where the away support is nowadays, no roof and the wind was as bitter as I can remember. Lost 2-1 to an Archie Gemmill thunderbastard, a minute after we had equalised which was the only time we had a chance to get warm! Thawed out finally turning the corner into SAR.
A few years later on the plastic we played Leicester in the cup, won 5-2. Again it was arctic conditions and sat in the ER stand. Vowed never to sit in that stand again. Frozen. Great game though and Robbie James hit a belter.
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I went to that game against Birmingham City on NYD 1980 and I can confirm it was the coldest match I have ever been to. So cold , I remember that I couldn’t clap, it was too painful. Another odd thing I remember about that game is that there were two Wolverhampton Wanderers fans in our section supporting us because they hated Birmingham City so much.
The wettest was more recent, away to Blackpool two seasons ago, just before most fans got Ito the ground, it was biblical, and everyone came in drenched 😂
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Coldest: Britannia Stadium, Stoke January 2002. Bone chillingly cold. Won 1-0 with Gavin Peacock scoring.
Wettest: Probably the League Cup tie at LR against Barnet I think in early October 1993. Absolutely pissed it down all day and didn't stop during the match. Stood in the West Paddock and we won 4-0 with Bradley Allen getting a hat-trick.
Coldest I've been was up at Newcastle for the start of the Mark Hughes era back in Jan 2012. We made a bit of a weekend of it, going out the Saturday night before the early kick off the next day. Remember nearly falling arse over tit on the frozen pavement near St James' Park, just to watch an abject performance, us hit the woodwork twice, then the only goal of the game scored by ex-R's striker Leon Best. Great view of the city from the top of the Leazes Stand, but the temperature just kept dropping.
As for the wettest, remember arriving at Loftus Road for a midweek game against Palace in 2009, only to be turned away after it was postponed due to a waterlogged pitch!
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