OhSitDown
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They don’t play them like this anymore (although Chesterfield away was grim!)
Was thinking of Brentford for being wet, but winning aet in the Cup at Newport in a ground no better than Stanley Park takes the biscuit. I was still wet when I got home 5 hours later. Think it was Brett's last game before he went to Southampton.That Chesterfield match only eclipsed by being on an open terrace at Brentford when we lost 5-0. Think Keith Southern made his debut that day...
Yes I was going to choose this one. But what a fantastic night. It was like playing on the deck of Noah's Ark and it wasn't much drier on the terraces and stands, but when we got a point at Leicester we knew we were nearly there and only had some insignificant other team to send down a division while we returned to Division One. As well as the rain my abiding memory is John McPhee belting the ball over the stands at every opportunity. Never has a 0-0 draw been so satisfying.Leicester v Pool 1970 in the run up to promotion. A cloudburst flooded the pitch shortly before ko and with over 30,000 in the ground , virtually all who'd paid at the gate , they postponed the game and told everyone to wait to see how money could be refunded . They realised that giving everyone their money back was impossible and so they decided the game would be played . It wasn't waterlogged, it was a lake . Absolutely farcical. 0- 0 draw .
I think I went to that but fortunately had the presence of mind to sit in the seats.Chesterfield new years day miserable wet. Remember fans chanting at the ref to abandon the game as we were losing
Suited Pool in the end as a point at Leicester was very important in helping to secure promotion that season.Leicester v Pool 1970 in the run up to promotion. A cloudburst flooded the pitch shortly before ko and with over 30,000 in the ground , virtually all who'd paid at the gate , they postponed the game and told everyone to wait to see how money could be refunded . They realised that giving everyone their money back was impossible and so they decided the game would be played . It wasn't waterlogged, it was a lake . Absolutely farcical. 0- 0 draw .
I was at this... the colour ran out of my navy coat and dyed my hands it rained that badBristol Rovers midweek in the 90’s - Old Twerton Park.
Couldn’t see past the penalty area ,from behind the goal, the rain was so “thick” at times.
Recall doing the Congo in the away end when we thought the ref had abandoned the game !
I was in the stand to the left of the goal...lucky me except for the resultChesterfield away was awful and my lad cried for the whole journey back to Macclesfield after!
My vote for this game. Spent the second half in the gents loo with about 50 others, only place with a roofLincoln away in 1985.
Open end and it lashed it down for the entire game.
I was too soft and went in the stands. Felt sorry for the drenched Pool fans.
At least we won 1-0
This was my wettest. I had 2 coats on and the one underneath was soaked right through too!Lincoln away , in the cup I think in the eighties, I had a new leather jacket on, it pissed down all day and the dye soaked through to my skin . I was rather grey for a while .
That grassy..no shale...no god knows what ...away end at Springfield Park was just effing awful...worst thing was the tiny covered area at the very top. WTF was that all about.Wigan away sometime in the 70s at Springfield Park....we lost 5-1 if memory serves. People were sliding down the grassy embankment. Some took refuge in the supporters coaches at the side of the away end.
Yes - PWT - my 2 boys, my mum and I were all down at the front - absolutely soaked to the skin - so wet the car windows were steaming up on the way home .... was worth it thoughPreston away when Wes scored the pen, I remember that being a very wet day.
We actually played them twice away after that game , won 0-1 with Charlie scoring the winner , then a 0-0 drawThe worst one I can remember was the last time we played nobbers away in the league, I was sat with my non end boss in the home section, very wet and foopin freezing, the hoolahan pen warmed me up inside
I remember that game differently. It only started raining about 30 minutes before kick off - but it certainly hammered it down. Ref deemed the pitch unplayable minutes before scheduled kick off time - there was standing water all over the pitch. Then within minutes the sun was out again.The League Cup game against Norwich - where Nigel Worthington had gone as assistant after leaving Pool before becoming, eventually, Manager.
It had lashed down all day and continued into the evening - it was a night match - game got called off at Half Time as I recall and the pitch which was already poor, became absolutely unplayable. Nigel Worthington was leading the Norwich players on their warm down as we queued to get out of the Scratching Shed, even with a small attendance it still took 15 minutes to get out of that stand!
Took a soaking going and then going home and didn’t even get a full game!
Watched it on a streamBlackpool youth v Liverpool youth. Pool lost on pens. I'm sure Jordan Ibe played, cos the freezing cold made him run a bit.
You must have been sat near me, I was right behind the goal on row A, it was so wet and cold I couldn’t feel my knees by the end of the game, and then they kept us locked in to let the Knobbers disperseI was front row of the 1-0 Wes Pen at Deepdale. Nearly drowned