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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 03:18 - Jan 2 with 2670 views
St Paddy’s Day 2018 Fulham Away. My Hammers mate Dodd and I came down from MK. Used to go R’s one week Hammers the next. Freezing wind was whipping at the stand all game. 2-0 down and Mass pulled 1 back just before half time. Couldn’t move my fingers to have a smoke at HT and I swear my pint was more like a lager slushy haha Few lads let off flares under the stand with everyone singing we never win away. 2nd half Pav netted the equaliser and could of nicked a winner Everyone crowded the first pub we came across to get some warmth after the game. Sadly Dodd passed away this summer just gone but both always said we had never been so cold as we were that day.
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The coldest/wettest you've ever been at a match on 07:37 - Jan 2 with 2491 views
Chesterfield away, standing on open terrace to cheer on Richard Pacquette. FFS.
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The coldest/wettest you've ever been at a match on 08:09 - Jan 2 with 2418 views
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.
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The coldest/wettest you've ever been at a match on 09:48 - Jan 2 with 2134 views
The Man City 2-2 game with the disallowed Austin goal, I thought i was gonna drown. I had to take my sock off to wrap my phone up cos it was actually stopping working.
The worst was when we beat Brentford 3-2 (?) a few years ago. I left the house and it said 5% chance of rain, so I just wore a thin mac. I get to the Paddocks and it was a bloody monsoon. I was completely soaked through to the bone. At half time I told my dad (who was in a thick water proof puffer jacket) I was going home. Losing to those slugs, drenched, I'd had it. Dad bought me a tea and told me to calm down.
We went back out and scored 3 goals in like 8 minutes and I was completely delirious, borderline trying to take my top off, giving it to the away fans nonstop in the torrent. "Amazing what a cup of tea at half time does" he said to me
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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.
I may have been at that game too... l remember a game in Nottingham when we lost heavily and I got soaked. Certainly in the eighties. I was absolutly freezing. Was it an early season game, maybe August/September?
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The coldest/wettest you've ever been at a match on 03:18 - Jan 2 by MKQPR
St Paddy’s Day 2018 Fulham Away. My Hammers mate Dodd and I came down from MK. Used to go R’s one week Hammers the next. Freezing wind was whipping at the stand all game. 2-0 down and Mass pulled 1 back just before half time. Couldn’t move my fingers to have a smoke at HT and I swear my pint was more like a lager slushy haha Few lads let off flares under the stand with everyone singing we never win away. 2nd half Pav netted the equaliser and could of nicked a winner Everyone crowded the first pub we came across to get some warmth after the game. Sadly Dodd passed away this summer just gone but both always said we had never been so cold as we were that day.
I was at that game and it was f*****g baltic. Our seats were on the edge of the crowd and we were like penguins trying to get inside the huddle to get away from the wind.
In recent years, Wigan in the play off Semi Final was wet!! We sat front row in Lower Loft in those days right next to corner flag over the ER side. We were soaked that night!!
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The coldest/wettest you've ever been at a match on 10:24 - Jan 2 with 2036 views
Coldest - went with a mate to watch Brentford v Southend LDV semi final. Stood on what was the open terrace behind the goal, there was a freezing gale force wind that went completely through you. Absolute taters.
Wettest - Vicenza v Bologna, another open terrace, it pissed it down from start to finish, I was completely soaked through. But I got to see Baggio play and he scored a wonder goal too.
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.
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The coldest/wettest you've ever been at a match on 12:19 - Jan 2 with 1796 views
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.
One of the coldest - Newcastle away 2009, drew 1-1. Rangers fans dressed up like Scott of the Antarctic, while the Geordie blokes were in shirt-sleeves and the women in their underwear
Wettest, Port Vale away midweek many moons ago - and the 4-0 loss to Cardiff at HQ, just after we’d been dumped out the cup by Vauxhall Motors
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The coldest/wettest you've ever been at a match on 12:35 - Jan 2 with 1743 views
My memory doesn't allow me to remember anything wetter than away to Arsenal in August 1968!
The tempreture was in the 80's & it was very much shirt sleeves stood on the open air terracing of The Clock End. Then towards the end of the game a sudden downpour arrived from nowhere. The UK must have been trying to introduce The Monsoon Season!
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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.
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The coldest/wettest you've ever been at a match on 13:25 - Jan 2 with 1580 views
I was at that Doncaster away match and yes that was a cold one. Also that Oldham one that someone already mentioned.
A couple of others that stick in the mind, Pompey away on Boxing Day late 90s. Mike Sheron put us 1-0 up but then they scored 3 times. No roof, back or sides on the away stand so you just got hit by the wind coming off the Solent. Man, it was cold.
Another Boxing Day match, 3-3 away at Notts County, Gallen got a last minute equaliser.
Another cold one was home match against Coventry. They had a man sent off early on & it became one of *those* games where we were just shit and couldn't score even against 10 men. They scored (inevitably) near the end, and then Dexter Blackstock got a very late equaliser to give us an undeserved draw. A terrible game of football played that was no fun to watch and I nearly froze to death in the process. Definitely one of those games that makes you question your life choices.
Another couple that spring to mind for wettest, Blackpool away. Helguson scored a couple, we won 3-0. I think it was Wayne Routledge's first game for us. Blackpool defenders just couldn't handle him or Lee Cook or Hogan Ephraim.
Another one around Xmas time was this home game v Sunderland in the Don Howe era. I was in the Paddock getting absolutely drenched but I can still visualise that Mark Falco winner like it was yesterday.
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The coldest/wettest you've ever been at a match on 13:38 - Jan 2 with 1535 views
Not the coldest weather but the coldest I've ever been at a game, Norwich away end of 81 season. Stood in the freezing North Sea wind wearing a Hawaiian shirt and grass skirt, seemed funny in the pub but nearly froze.
Do I remember correctly a game during the plastic pitch era when we were the only game on in London due to a decent amount of snow and they bought some prisoners from the Scrubs to clear our pitch?
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