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Viking Chat => Viking Chat => Topic started by: POD on November 04, 2013, 03:28:47 pm
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Did anyone else get absolutely soaked on Saturday?
I left home to walk from Bessacarr at 1.50pm and it was cloudy, but not raining. As I approached the lakeside, the heavens opened and I got a real soaking. The shower only lasted about ten minutes and by the time I reached the ground, it was blue sky all round and those that live on the North side of town will have missed it altogether.
With the cold wind blowing into the West Stand during the game my wet clothes and feet made it absolutely freezing and I can't remember being as cold at a match for a long time.
Does anyone else have memories of particularly cold and wet matches in the past?
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Yes, Plymouth Nov 81, open away end, got soaked, lost 4-2 followed by 7 hour coach journey back home.
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Scunny at home boxing day at BV.
Couldnt undo my zip for a half time tiddle my fingers were that cold!
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Wettest was maybe Mansfield away in the cup (95?96?). Torrential downpour on an open terrace for 80 minutes when my mates dad said we were leaving at 4-0 so we even missed our consolation goals.
Coldest I would say a game at home to Lincoln (under John Beck at the time so mid/late 90's again). Think it was a 1-1 draw. Despite having at least two of everything on I was utterly freezing. Genuinely think the weather said it hit -8 that so no idea how the game was even on.
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That Pre-Season Friendly at Belle Vue against Real Sociedad was very very wet - but perhaps not too bad as it was quite warm too.
I also remember an amazing Coca-Cola Cup Game (I think but may have been Leyland DAF or somesuch) against Blackpool round about 1992 ish - was absolutely horrendous, we were given red raffle tickets on the way in just in case it got called off before half-time, I remember saying to my sister that they'd get through to half time and call it off a minute into the second half so no-one would be refunded.
I seem to recall there were less than 1000 in the ground (but gain I may be wrong) but as it happens it was an amazing game that night despite the wet so again it wasn't so bad.
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Coldest I've ever been at a match has to be that Boro game in 2010, 2-1. Absolutely mental conditions to get a game on in.
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God knows when it was, But a game against SWANSEA, many years ago at BV. Heavens opened, there was a tidal wave (Small, but a wave non the less ), ran from Rossington end down to town end, outside perimeter wall. That's the wettest ive known. But wasn't cold, think it was early October time.
Of course I stand to be corrected on any point.
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Sociedad was ridiculous. The scenes of everybody slowly moving backwards further under the sstands to avoid the rain will live in the memory for a long time. IIRC, Sociedad cancelled the rest of their pre-season tour the day after!
The coldest I've been was a Tuesday night away at Burnley a couple of years ago. Absolutely brutal.
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Grimsby away in the JPT was awful! It was raining sideways towards us in the away end, as we were on row C we opted to move to the corner stood at the back to stay sheltered :cold: the performance wasn't much better either!
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Southport away in the Conference has to be up there with Sociedad for the wettest.
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Scunny away last season was quite cold. Mind you I was on the bottom row and was ankle deep in snow
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Southport away in the Conference has to be up there with Sociedad for the wettest.
More hail than rain. Pretty wet though.
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Charlton away this season was pretty wet!
I also remember one away fixture at Huddersfield (Leeds Rd) in the early 80's. We had already decided to sit in the stand, but the weather was so bad that the stewards shunted all the Rovers fans, who were standing in the open terracing, into the stand under cover.
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I was playing for the R'Sonists at WorldNet in Leeds the day of the Sociedad friendly and remember us all piling into a tiny tent to try and escape the rain!
I don't really remember ever getting that wet while watching football, opening day in the Conference against Forest Green when Duerden scored a hat trick I remember it hammering it down and those on the Rosso End trying to find cover, but I was on the Pop Side so didn't affect me!
Coldest I've ever been was Burnley away, think it was in November 2008 but could have been 2009, never been so cold watching football. Helped slightly by the fact I went to Lanzarote the next day! It was also pretty chilly the night Ipswich hammered us 6-0 at the Keepmoat, a great birthday present for me that was, and a fantastic reward for renewing my season ticket the day before!
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Coventry away this good Friday was freezing had 2 coats with me and being optimistic put the slightly lighter one on mistake
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Fulham away in a 2nd leg league cup match about 1982 ish. The floodlights were crocked and the kick off was put back until around 8.30 maybe even 9pm. It was cold and my memory says one of those nights when a ground frost was forming early, however, being young and daft I didn't wear a coat and relied only on my Rovers shirt to keep warm. Looking back, I don't think we did so well in the league cup that it would have been later than October so maybe it wasnt that cold.
I also think the 5 or 6 pints of well-chilled lager from the kiosk at the back of the terrace didn't help with the temperature as well as I'd hoped. If I remember correctly we lost 3-0 making it 6-1 in aggregate over both legs.
Because of the extremely late kick-off, there was no transport home from town when the coach finally got back into Donny at around 2am so a long coatless walk followed.
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scunny away about 8 years ago, some reason only had my rovers shirt on, i nearly died..... :cold:
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Southport away. It wasn't physically possible to be any wetter than that. Didn't dry out till I took my kecks off and held them under the hand driers in the bogs at Hartshead services.
Coldest ever for me was on the away end at Hartlepool one February Tuesday night. Sleet blown in on a 50mph gale that felt like it had come from a deep freeze. On Pluto. Only colder. Al tell thi how cold it were. Uncle Jack Ashurst were on the away end at kick off. He lasted 10 minutes before he buggered off to the main stand.
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Another contender for wettest was a Boxing Day match at Saltergate, when Stevie Adams slipped in a puddle in the box in the last minute to gain the winning penalty.
Have been looking at taking my kids to his football training sessions in Sheffield. Looking on his website, it seems like the old lad's a bit poorly.
http://www.trickywingers.co.uk/
Steve is currently fighting a long battle with Kidney (Renal) Cancer.
Best of luck to a proper entertainer.
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Southport and Chesterfield away for wettest
Coldest - Hartlepool the night Billy Tight Shirt got sent off for missing ball, also Northampton (old ground) even heater in car wouldn't work
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Yes, Plymouth Nov 81, open away end, got soaked, lost 4-2 followed by 7 hour coach journey back home.
Was that the tuesday nite game ?if so i went down to said game on the Supporters coach from waterdale.
There was 3 Of us but we sat in the seats i recall.if rovers had Won 0-6 it would have never Made that coach journey back home any better.
Sure it was only time i went via Supporters branch
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Coldest - York City away on Boxing Day, probably about 1988. Started snowing on the open terrace. Consolation was we won 1-0.
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Rochdale away over christmas/new year in the early 80's was a proper quagmire. I think the game finished 3-3 but there was at least one time when the ball was rolling goalwards but got stuck in the mud before the line, and was hacked clear. And we thought our pitch last season was bad!
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Yeovil away, the year we came up through the playoffs.
It was probably my shittiest experience as a travelling rover. Catching the coach with a monstrous hangover and no sleep at stupid o'clock. Then it pisses down with rain, we play terribly and lose. Freezing, and miserable on the way home, I will never go there again!
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Another contender for wettest was a Boxing Day match at Saltergate, when Stevie Adams slipped in a puddle in the box in the last minute to gain the winning penalty.
Have been looking at taking my kids to his football training sessions in Sheffield. Looking on his website, it seems like the old lad's a bit poorly.
http://www.trickywingers.co.uk/
Steve is currently fighting a long battle with Kidney (Renal) Cancer.
Best of luck to a proper entertainer.
Remember this one Billy.
Absolutely sheeting it down on that big open terrace and me and a couple of mates huddling in a corner.
My brother, on the other hand, was stood taking the full brunt of it wearing just a Rovers shirt (and a pair of jeans before any smart arses suggest otherwise) and at one point his arms did start to have a bluish tinge to them!
Sad news about Steve Adams. Wish you all the best fella.
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Rochdale away over christmas/new year in the early 80's was a proper quagmire. I think the game finished 3-3 but there was at least one time when the ball was rolling goalwards but got stuck in the mud before the line, and was hacked clear. And we thought our pitch last season was bad!
Remember it well. Old school footy!
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I remember the Carling Cup 3rd round tie against Gillingham at Belle Vue during our cup run of 2005. I stood on the old main stand terrace with no cover for the whole game. I dug out my programme recently and it wasn't in a very good state. My Real Sociedad programme is even worse though!!
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Wettest the Real Sociedad game, coldest a few years ago up at Hartlepool, wind coming in off the sea it was effing freezing. As for the cloud bust on Saturday, missed it by about 5 mins, the only thing that went right on Saturday!
COYR
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Real Sociedad wettest by some margin. Never known rain like it at football, and like probably everyone else there that day, was very surprised to see the game run to the end with the lightning so close!
Was anyone else in ASDA after the game? I don't know where it struck, but the lightning took out their power and there was total darkness in there for a few seconds!
Coldest? Hmmm... Lots of them, but struggling to remember specifics apart from Villa at BV, and the game a winter or two ago where the announcer (very temporarily) called the game off at half time due the frozen pitch even though the ref hadn't! :lol:
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Wigan away, Leyland dad quarrel final, rained all day and night. Slidding down the grass bank when Bruno scored, drove bk home in just my boxers, now that was a wet day out
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Yeovil away, the year we came up through the playoffs.
It was probably my shittiest experience as a travelling rover. Catching the coach with a monstrous hangover and no sleep at stupid o'clock. Then it pisses down with rain, we play terribly and lose. Freezing, and miserable on the way home, I will never go there again!
That day we had everything. Sun, wind, rain and snow and you are right it was bloody freezing. It was the first day of Spring if I remember rightly because I got stuck in traffic driving past Stonehenge.
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Wettest was maybe Mansfield away in the cup (95?96?). Torrential downpour on an open terrace for 80 minutes when my mates dad said we were leaving at 4-0 so we even missed our consolation goals.
Coldest I would say a game at home to Lincoln (under John Beck at the time so mid/late 90's again). Think it was a 1-1 draw. Despite having at least two of everything on I was utterly freezing. Genuinely think the weather said it hit -8 that so no idea how the game was even on.
Mansfield game was FA Cup I think. Sammy Chung wrote in next home game programme that he would never forget the fans singing as we lost in non-stop pouring rain.
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The Real Sociedad game is memorable for me because I'd been on holiday watching the cricket up at Scarborough. The game was due to finish on the Saturday, but due to the incompetence of Warwickshire's batsmen it was all over on the Friday afternoon.
As Donny is en route from Scarborough to Brum, I took the opportunity to have a pre-season look at the Rovers and take my mum for a last chance to have a look at Belle Vue. We sat in the Main Stand (we were bang in line with Nick Fenton's goal) and so we also avoided the worst of the rain. However, I still got a soaking when I dashed back to get the car from the car park and drive over to the stand entrance. At least mum stayed dry!
Coldest? I'm a poor judge these days as I feel the cold badly. I do remember freezing at Broadhall Way on Easter Saturday just before the end of the 2002-03 season- the stand we were in faced into the teeth of a biting easterly. Hartlepool always feels cold for similar reasons. I remember the night of the Villa game being cold but quite still. It's the wind-chill that always makes it feel much worse.
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Wettest was maybe Mansfield away in the cup (95?96?). Torrential downpour on an open terrace for 80 minutes when my mates dad said we were leaving at 4-0 so we even missed our consolation goals.
Coldest I would say a game at home to Lincoln (under John Beck at the time so mid/late 90's again). Think it was a 1-1 draw. Despite having at least two of everything on I was utterly freezing. Genuinely think the weather said it hit -8 that so no idea how the game was even on.
Mansfield game was FA Cup I think. Sammy Chung wrote in next home game programme that he would never forget the fans singing as we lost in non-stop pouring rain.
I was going to stand up at that game but I thought it was going to p**s it down so my mate and I paid a bit extra to sit in that small stand (reminiscent of the old Cowshed at BV, except along the side of the pitch). We stayed to the bitter end and saw Rovers get a couple of consolation goals, but you couldn't blame those standing in the open who threw in the towel at 4-0.
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A few years ago England played in Baku, Azerbaijan. The lads who were out there before the day of the match said the temperatures were in the 30's and the sun was cracking the pavements, all backed up by the BBC weather site. So, most England fans who flew out there went in T shirt and shorts to be met with constant driving rain, gale force winds and temperatures hovering just above freezing. No cover in the ground either. I have never been so cold and wet at a game. Thankfully we had our flag with us so we could use that as a very wet blanket. I have a picture somewhere!
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Real Sociedad wettest by some margin. Never known rain like it at football, and like probably everyone else there that day, was very surprised to see the game run to the end with the lightening so close!
Was anyone else in ASDA after the game? I don't know where it struck, but the lightning took out their power and there was total darkness in there for a few seconds!
Coldest? Hmmm... Lots of them, but struggling to remember specifics apart from Villa at BV, and the game a winter or two ago where the announcer (very temporarily) called the game off at half time due the frozen pitch time even though the ref hadn't! :lol:
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Real Sociedad was somat different, thunder lightning the lot The Villa game was kin cold although a certain manager was whinging like hell about the pitch being "crusty" :lol:
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Wettest was definitely Sociedad. I also remember standing on the away terrace at Ashton Gate in March 1985 getting drenched, shivering all the way home and catching pneumonia which was so bad I missed the following two Easter fixtures Bradford home and Walsall away. I was pissed off as they were the only two games I missed that season.
Coldest was choice of two. Hartlepool away losing 1-0 away in the Leyland Daf one Nov night and at Crewe losing 8-0 in same competition. Funny how it always seems colder when you lose.
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For me the coldest is between the Middlesbrough home game in 2010 when we won 2-1 (late on as well) and the Derby away game a week before Christmas in 2009, absolutely frozen!
The wettest may have been Sheff United in 2009, I was getting on Train at Hatfield and Stainforth and it lashed it down and then to make it worse I dropped a can on the train before opening it which sprayed it all in my face so I rolled up to Bramall Lane soaked in rain and lager...
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I remember being stupidly cold at Oldham away in our promotion season from league 1 the first time round. Was either the league game or the fa cup game where we equalised late on
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Another contender for wettest was a Boxing Day match at Saltergate, when Stevie Adams slipped in a puddle in the box in the last minute to gain the winning penalty.
That gets my vote, the only game I've ever had to watch looking back over my shoulder as the rain (with some sleet and hail mixed in too I believe) was just driving straight at the uncovered away end for just about the whole match...
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Can't believe neither of my first 2 have come up yet as at the time of number 1 I remember praying, yes saying a genuine prayer that it would stop raining!
1. Blackpool away about 6/7 seasons ago on the old open temporary golf stand! I spent the last ten minutes of the first half with my hands in a sink full of steaming water just so I could feel my fingers again, the water was so hot though I still have scars to this day on my hand, silly! Oh we got beat too, comfortably!
2. Brighton away roughly same time, again open roofed away end, it never stopped raining from us getting there too leaving, the Brighton stewards were handing out Brighton rain ponchos to us for free it was that bad! Said I would never go back to either but I have been back to Blackpool since and I would like to try the Amex out!
3. Yeovil away (April?) 2008, as above, frigging horrible day out! Said I'd never go back, don't intend too! If I never go back to huish park to the day I die it'll still be too soon!
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The Middlesbrough 2010 one was freezing and the Carling cup game at Belle vue was the next Ice Age,the Sally Army were playing they're trumpets,it's a wonder there wasn't an Eskimo blocking the pipes up!! :laugh:
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Southport away.
And a match against Barnet at Belle Vue which I think was in the 97-98 season. The crowd on the Mainstand/Town End sides was exactly the number that could cram under the roof of the Main Stand itself...and me. Couldn't squeeze in anywhere and in the end decided I might as well go and be a lone figure behind the Town End goal.
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Can't believe neither of my first 2 have come up yet as at the time of number 1 I remember praying, yes saying a genuine prayer that it would stop raining!
1. Blackpool away about 6/7 seasons ago on the old open temporary golf stand! I spent the last ten minutes of the first half with my hands in a sink full of steaming water just so I could feel my fingers again, the water was so hot though I still have scars to this day on my hand, silly! Oh we got beat too, comfortably!
2. Brighton away roughly same time, again open roofed away end, it never stopped raining from us getting there too leaving, the Brighton stewards were handing out Brighton rain ponchos to us for free it was that bad! Said I would never go back to either but I have been back to Blackpool since and I would like to try the Amex out!
3. Yeovil away (April?) 2008, as above, frigging horrible day out! Said I'd never go back, don't intend too! If I never go back to huish park to the day I die it'll still be too soon!
I was at all those three games - I have some very fetching pictures of me in a Brighton poncho, although by the time they had handed them out we were piss wet through anyway and did nothing much to salvage the best of a damp situation.
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Gillingham at home in league cup during our cup run or Brighton away a few seasons ago.
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Did not spot anyone mentioning Carlisle away first Season back in Tier4 - when Leo scored in about 89th Minute
It was blowing a Gale and raining and I have never been to a match where the rain was that bad .... but I have been to games that were halted through snow (Owls) and Fog - a Rovers home game at some stage
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I can't remember much colder than that night match v Boro 3 years ago.
As for wettest nothing really stands out though I've had my fair share of open away terraces.
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I can't remember who we played but it was at belle vue. It started to rain and most people huddled under the main stand. We thought it would just be a shower by the time we realised it was a torrential downpour there was no point in moving. I walked home like id shat myself.
I was also at the sociedad game.
And at the JPT game at Grimsby I was sat near the front with my dad and the rain poured off the roof right onto us!
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Another contender for wettest was a Boxing Day match at Saltergate, when Stevie Adams slipped in a puddle in the box in the last minute to gain the winning penalty.
That gets my vote, the only game I've ever had to watch looking back over my shoulder as the rain (with some sleet and hail mixed in too I believe) was just driving straight at the uncovered away end for just about the whole match...
that and the wigan leyland daf must be the wettest, Hartlepool ( any really its never warm) the coldest
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There's some truly desperate places to watch footy. Hartlepool, Darlo......although I never remember rain at Darlo if you were on the open terrace at Feethams. Scunny was freezing last year was it? Oldham even before they knocked the main stand down will always be grim. Bury I always seem to remember rain. Perhaps it's just a Pennines thing. Keeps all the shite weather in the north west. Belle Vue was never the greatest. Always felt embarrassed if my mates from opposing team came and had to stand on the open away end. Not only did they have to contend with the weather but they had to wade through several inches of piss as the bogs were always blocked! My personal wettest was Grimsby in the JPT. The rain was sideways and Smithy didnt have a prayer kicking into that wind. Coldest, Scunny but the win warmed mi cockles!
There's always something nice about the cold though. I have this rose tinted view that a game isn't complete without a beer or two before the game and your Dad saying time for a little warmer, usually a tot of whisky before tramping off to see a game. There was a pub at one end of the Halifax ground best met that idyll. Ah, the nostalgia!
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I'm with Swinton - Sociedad and Burnley respectively.
I went to that Sociedad game in t-shirt and shorts as it was so warm in the morning. I got absolutely drenched to the bone. My mobile phone (a fancy Nokia 6680, the best you could get back in the day) was in my pocket and bluetooth never worked again after that day.
As we all came out of OBV, lightning hit the conductor on the top of the racecourse stand and everyone sh!t themselves!
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Nowhere is colder than Oldham surely, isn't it the highest ground in the league or something? I had icicles dripping off mi doo dar in the bogs at half time.
The Sociedad game ruined my waterproof to 100 metres watch, but it was worth it to hear Viva Espana being played when the teams came out.
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Nowhere is colder than Oldham surely, isn't it the highest ground in the league or something? I had icicles dripping off mi doo dar in the bogs at half time.
The Sociedad game ruined my waterproof to 100 metres watch, but it was worth it to hear Viva Espana being played when the teams came out.
Believe it or not VD, the highest English ground above sea level is reputed to be West Brom.
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Wigan away, Leyland dad quarrel final, rained all day and night. Slidding down the grass bank when Bruno scored, drove bk home in just my boxers, now that was a wet day out
Yes I was there for that. Roling down that bank when Bruno scored!!! a never to be forgotten moment.
Ditto driving home in boxer shorts.
Regards
Ray
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Forever ingrained in Rovers history that match at Wiga.
Anybody know how many actually went that night ?
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Andysly
From memory, I'd guess that there were about 500 there. Mind, to judge by the claims to have been there on this site, you'd think there were 5,000 of us.
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BST - my thoughts exactly.
I was there with my Dad strange to think I'm almost as old as he was then. Just remember him going nuts when Bruno won the game. Very similar when we won against QPR.
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Andysly
From memory, I'd guess that there were about 500 there. Mind, to judge by the claims to have been there on this site, you'd think there were 5,000 of us.
True that Billy, mind reading through this thread, with the exception of Sociadad, I would say I have been at most of these games. We took about 500 to Wigan. I had a decent view of our fans. I was in the Wigan end as I was a student in Manchester and there with some mates from University- nearly missed the game as we were drinking in Wigan and then managed to get in as Under 16's. Remember thinking why do all the Rovers fans keep disappearing down that bank.
I went a few times to Springfield Park and it was one of the few grounds that, even at its most dilapidated, Belle Vue put to shame.
Was at the Chesterfield, Steve Adams diving for the penalty, game too- was around the same time, New Years Day 1990 I think and that was wet.
Coldest for me though was the Penrith at home cup tie December 81- remember next day there was a meeting for the Junior Rovers, Q and A with the Snodin brothers at the bar/golf club place and we came out to a few flakes of snow, My Dad came out with the old, "Its too cold to snow" line, An hour and half later, we just made it back to Rotherham and the snow lasted lasted for about 6 weeks.
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The Swansea game before the Arsenal cup game at Belle vue,wasn't wet but absolutely freezing,i was shaking,then that Martin Toal was trying to get people to join in with Nessen Dorma,it didn't quite work out :facepalm:
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Andysly
From memory, I'd guess that there were about 500 there. Mind, to judge by the claims to have been there on this site, you'd think there were 5,000 of us.
Can you remember who the tannoy man was that night? ;0)
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Can't remember which match it was, but it was at Belle Vue, and it was Lockwood's debut match. The rain came down in sheets and we took shelter under the boxes next to the food stalls. I can remember the water just sitting on the pitch but the match carried on to the end. We were soaked to the skin by the time we got back to the car, across the road from BV, and when we were driving back up Bennetthorpe to town picked up Lockwood's uncle and nephew who were making for the train station, and equally soaked. The guy was worried about wetting the seats in the car, but we just said the front seats are soaked so it won't hurt the back ones to get wet too. Never been so wet from rain before or since.