Hottest and coldest you've been at a match

[Uncle Buck]

Hotest non Albion one was probably England v Nigeria in the 2002 World Cup, which was played in Osaka. It was about a 330pm kick off and fairly humid. No real surprise it ended 0-0. With the Albion, the opening day of the 2003/04 season away to Oldham. Probably the only time I will be at Oldham when it is 38ish degrees.

Coldest, a couple of non Albion ones. In about 2001 we went to Utrecht at the end of November to see Holland U21's play England U21's in a European Championship play off game. It was freezing, to the point that we were using the flag as a blanket, even the local 'herbs' could not keep the cold at bay. Also when we went to Baku in 2004. The first day we were there the temperature was in the early 20's (in October) but on the day of the game it had dropped by about 10 degrees and was raining. Had taken no cold weather clothes, so that was a rather cold evening. Ending up leaving the game 20 minutes early (was in the expat's section so no police keeping us in) as it was so cold and the game was rubbish.

Coldest with Brighton, well Luton away between Christmas and New Year a couple of years ago is one, also just about every trip to Torquay.

Wetest was Rochdale at home.

 

[Tubby Mondays]

Forgot about Oldham youre right that was blimming hot! Forgot about Luton as well but then I think I only saw half an hour of the game before retiring to the funniest pub in the world - mobo carts on charge etc.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Coldest was at Barnet a few years ago on boxing day, I thought I was going to die.

 

[Dave the OAP]

Coldest - first game I ever saw.

Huddersfield Town vs Newcastle in January 1966. I can still to this day remember how cold I was and I was 8. the wind was howling off the pennines and it was sleeting and at half time I begged my father and grandad to take me home.

Wettest - Brighton vs Middlesboro.( League Cup)...I was on the east terrace and at half time the police moved us all to the North Stand I think we lost 5-1 or something like that.

warmest. When in South Africa saw Highlands park ( my team) play Durban Spurs and it was 120 degrees in the shade. we won 3-0.

 

[Arthur]

Forgot about Oldham youre right that was blimming hot! Forgot about Luton as well but then I think I only saw half an hour of the game before retiring to the funniest pub in the world - mobo carts on charge etc.

Great days!

Game was dreadful, I think we telepathically knew each would be leaving at the time of the second goal. I don't recall it being that cold but maybe my memory is clouded by the fantastic entertainment that was served up in that pub.

Jimmy and Rab C Nesbit fighting over that old girl.....priceless!

Getting back on topic, I'll agree with UB that Nigera game in Japan was mentally hot!

Coldest probably watching our reserves at Hastings one evening. Or Torquay away around about New Year. I'd spent NYE in bed with the flu, managed to drag myself off my death bed to go to the game. Oldham away a few years later also sticks out as being bloody freezing!

Wettest, has to be that day at Barnet. I couldn't have got any wetter if I had jumped in a swimming pool!

 

[Tubby Mondays]

Coldest - first game I ever saw.

Wettest - Brighton vs Middlesboro.( League Cup)...I was on the east terrace and at half time the police moved us all to the North Stand I think we lost 5-1 or something like that.

I remember that. We had lost the first leg up there 5 - 0 and I think we lost the second one 3 - 0.

 

[Scotty Mac]

Coldest: Hull away, circa 1995 - 96, 0 - 0 draw on a Tuesday night. My knees froze up, I could barely stand up at the end of the game let alone walk back to the car!

that was the coldest i have ever been in my LIFE, with the possible exception of hiking through the columbia ice field without a thick coat. it was so cold, we werent allowed on the terrace behind the goal as it had FROZEN

hottest was either southend or oldham, both opening days of the season. reaging away at the end of 93-94 was pretty warm as well. not forgetting toronto fc dallas this summer, it was played during a 'heat warning', and came away from it with wicked sunburn

 

[Falmer Flutter ©]

Coldest: Torquay away New Year's Day. Garry Nelson scored the winner for them and we looked doomed for relegation.
Hotest: Tunisia v England in Marseille, World Cup 1998
Wetest: Albion v Rochdale at Withdean. Lost 4-3. Injury time winner. Friday night and just chucked down for 90 minutes.

 

[The Large One]

Hottest: Southend away 2000.
Coldest: Barnet away, same season.
Wettest: Rochdale at home, 1999.

 

[Dave the OAP]

anyone remember the Bristol Rovers game at the Goldstone - may have been a boxing day when it was so wet, the pitch became a lake

Also Portsmouth at home one evening, we won 1-0 I think Crumplin scored and it pissed down from start to finish

man City at home ( goldstone) won 4-1 and it hammered down for about 30 minutes

Play off semi final vs swindon.....I was stood outside the sportsman for 15 minutes trying to get in and was drowning!!!!

 

[Icy Gull]

anyone remember the Bristol Rovers game at the Goldstone - may have been a boxing day when it was so wet, the pitch became a lake

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Was that when the steamroller type thing from Sussex cricket club was used to suck up the water? Or was that in a game against whoever Marcus Stewart played for and he set a club record for goals in most consecutive matches, we lost of course

 

[Herne Hill Seagull]

Hottest was deffo that Southend game - I'd just come back from a holiday in the Balearics the night before, but it was hotter here than it had been there. Typical.

As well as that legendarily wet Barnet game where Ifejiagwa scored, the coldest game I've been to was also at Barnet. Boxing Day 2000, 1-0 win, Hart scored - a bitter wind blew right into our faces for the entire game, it was absolutely bleeding perishing. I seem to recall the pub being absolutely rammed afterwards with people who'd gone in there to get warm as much as to get a pint...

 

[CHAPPERS]

anyone remember the Bristol Rovers game at the Goldstone - may have been a boxing day when it was so wet, the pitch became a lake

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Was that when the steamroller type thing from Sussex cricket club was used to suck up the water? Or was that in a game against whoever Marcus Stewart played for and he set a club record for goals in most consecutive matches, we lost of course

Was that called the Whale?

Remember we used it once in an evening game, forget the opponents, didn't work though.

 

[Dirty Dave]

Coldest was at Barnet a few years ago on boxing day, I thought I was going to die.

For me, that was the coldest. Was about Christmas time I think. Beleive we won 1-0 after Paul Watson had missed an earlier penalty.

But, bloody feezing!

 

[Storer68]

Hottest

Argentina v Czecholsovakia at Florence in the 1990 Worlc Cup (the one when maradonna missed in the penalty shootout.

IT WAS ROASTING AND NO ROOF AND WE HAD NO DRINKS NO SHADE NO BREEZE AND WERE JAMMED IN . The gents was awash at half time and we drank about three litres of chilled water straight down after the game.....

Coldest
FA CUp 3rd round at Oldham in 1990 (?) Then they had a plastic pitch which I managed to pitchside onto cos I had a photo pass. My ass froze to the pitch by halftime!

and the Test match at Melbourne last year was fekin cold.....................

although the Sydney test had a stupendously hot day when it went off the scale (thats's 55 degrees to you squire)

 

[Storer68]

Was that called the Whale?

Remember we used it once in an evening game, forget the opponents, didn't work though.

cardiff city

evening game and it never started and was called off around 9.40

 

[Icy Gull]

cardiff city

evening game and it never started and was called off around 9.40

Pretty sure it was used just before a game that I was at and I have never been at a game that was called off once I was in the ground.

I could of course be wrong and have seen it ( the whale) on tv report about the Albion, memory is not what it was.

 

[Scotty Mac]

Was that called the Whale?

Remember we used it once in an evening game, forget the opponents, didn't work though.

it was definently the whale - the water it soaked up they wee attempting to discharge on the perimetre track by the east terrace, which soon became a lake and flooded back onto the pitch

 

[saltash seagull]

coldest - torquay new years days

hottest - oldham away 3-1 leon's debut,coppells tatics got us the points

wettest - barnet - emika and got caught in traffic got there at half time and was soaked

 

[Gully]

Hottest, possibly the Swindon game in the play offs, fortunately I was sat in the shade in their main stand.

Coldest, non-albion, a Belgian cup game where the temperature was well below freezing when the game kicked off at 8pm, it went to extra time and penalties and finished at about a quarter to eleven...by which time I reckon the temperature must have been about -10C.

Wettest, a game at Pompey one Easter in the early 90's, it rained all through the game and I was absolutely soaked to the bone.