Wettest Game you’ve ever watched?

Brighton away -a midweek game around 1983 and it lashed down on the old away end at the Goldstone Ground.
Won 1-0 when we were really struggling at the time but worth the trip, and made sure we stopped for a beer in the Avesco minibus on the way back.
Home in the early hours for work at 8 but what a great night.

If you're a ManUre fan then you won't understand this, indeed there's nothing better when coming back from one of these games to see the Gold Coast appearing in the dawn light with 3 points in the bank.

Edit:it was 04 September 1985. Wow!
 
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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 .
 
Chesterfield away was awful and my lad cried for the whole journey back to Macclesfield after!
 
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...
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.
 
Some good ones mentioned. More recently the game at home to West Brom in the Prem sticks out to me. Remember the rain blowing in the floodlights.

Game was just as crazy as the weather. They had 2 men sent off in the first half, we went 2-0 up and they still dominated most of the second half. Good times
 
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 .
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.
 
West Brom at home in the prem,got so wet walking back ,didn't bother going to the pub ,even after a win.
I was with my Chinese mate Piss Wet Thru !!
 
Wimbledon Southend at Plough Lane when I lived in London. Cup game with extra time, ended about 6-4 back in the 80s. Monsoon throughout. One coach load of Southend fans doing a conga on the open terrace at one end. Absurd but highly entertaining game of football.
 
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 .
Suited Pool in the end as a point at Leicester was very important in helping to secure promotion that season.
 
Away at Huddersfield at Leeds road. So wet they took pity on us and let us in to the main stand at half time.
 
The 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
 
Another for the 5-0 Brentford game. By the far the wettest I've ever been. I had a full on Henri Lloyd yachting jacket and was still soacked to the skin. We bailed at 3-0, heard the 4th on the way out and the 5th on R5L.
 
Bristol 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 at this... the colour ran out of my navy coat and dyed my hands it rained that bad
 
Exeter away early eighties i think, glorious sunshine before the game whilst having a couple of beers so left coat on coach but started persisting it down as soon as we got in the ground and never stopped all game. Open end so got soaking and we got beat 1-0
 
Blackpool away at Huddersfield in the final game of the 1967/68 season, it poured down all day and throughout the match, there was no cover at Huddersfield’s ground, we were soaked to the skin but we didn’t care. Pool won 3-1 and secured promotion to Div 1, we were all on the pitch celebrating and caked in mud when the news came through that QPR had scored in injury time, via an own goal from a Villa player, and Pool lost out on promotion by goal difference. QPR certainly rained on our parade that day.
 
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 .
 
Chesterfield away was awful and my lad cried for the whole journey back to Macclesfield after!
I was in the stand to the left of the goal...lucky me except for the result😳

but as someone has already posted the Huddersfield game when we literally seconds away from promotion..i was like a drown rat along with many others...we actually switched ends at half time....this is what being a true Blackpool fan means...there are some on here who do nothing but criticise who have absolutely no idea about that.
 
Exeter away mid 80's Wednesday night.
Only a few Pool there that night got moved from behind goal into the stand we were that wet.
Drew 1-1 Kevin Stonehouse scoring for Pool
 
Lincoln 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
My vote for this game. Spent the second half in the gents loo with about 50 others, only place with a roof
 
Yes the two night matches mentioned above for me, Wigan and Hartlepool. You couldn't see the grass that night at Wigan, water polo would have been more suited. I think we lost 4-1 just to make matters worse. Bobby Campbell shook Colin Methven round all nightlike a rag doll and Craig Madden got our consolation.

Even that doesn't compare with Hartlepool, if we'd gone down with the Titanic we couldn't have been wetter. I think we lost 1-0 as well just to rub it in.
 
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 .
This was my wettest. I had 2 coats on and the one underneath was soaked right through too!
 
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.
 
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.
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.
...and that Main Stand what a joke...and not forgetting the cup tie when they were lobbing bricks, etc from outside of the ground..
...maybe because we had a bad record there I hated the place and for that matter Wigan F.C.
 
Can't remember the year but it was at Deepdung playing the Mighty and the rain lashed in all day. I was completely soaked and it was a very miserable journey home (We lost too)...
 
What about the Burnley game at Bloomfield a few years ago when nobody could take a dead ball kick without the ball blowing away. A player had to hold the ball for goal kicks. Rain horizontal towards the north stand. Never seen anything as bad as that night.
 
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Huddersfield away in the FA cup, think Wes may have scored a penalty that day, think we wore the maroon kit.

It was absolutely hammering it down and some poor stewards were sat right in the corner uncovered and how the stands arch down they were getting soaked in bucket loads 🤦🏻‍♂️
 
The 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
We actually played them twice away after that game , won 0-1 with Charlie scoring the winner , then a 0-0 draw
 
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!
 
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!
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.
Norwich came out to warm up / warm down (Worthington got a few verbals) & the pitch looked playable as the water had gone.
It was a late August Tuesday night fixture & most had come in t shirts n shorts as it was warm. Most got wet coming to & into the ground. Was a quick dash from the tyldesley club (pre match boozer at the time).
 
I was front row of the 1-0 Wes Pen at Deepdale. Nearly drowned
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 disperse 🥶
 
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