Postponed / Abandoned match nostalgia

[el punal]

On the subject of the elements, was Friday's fixture against Cardiff the first Albion home game to be called off because of fog? In over 50 years of Albion watching I think this was a first.

 

[Spearritt of the Albion]

Went to Stamford Bridge for the FA Cup second replay against Palace in 1976. Got to Victoria Station only to find out that the game had been postponed. Not sure if it was the first or second postponement but when the game was eventually played on Dec 6th it became infamous for Mr Mullery's famous 2 fingered gesture to the Palace fans after someone had thrown a hot cup of tea at him as he left the pitch. We lost 1-0 after the ref, the infamous Ron Challis (of Palace), made Nobby Horton retake a penalty after Palace players had encroached when he scored first time.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Didn't the rearranged fixture get called off as well - waterlogged pitch?

I went to one of the postponed games, I can't remember which. There had been a deluge and prior to that the egg chasers had used the pitch in the week which had cut it up extremely badly. I sat in the stand behind the goal and looked at the mess which had once been a pitch. Stayed to cheer the Albion team coach as they left the ground, along with about twenty other Brighton fans and was rewarded by a wave from Sir Bobby.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

On the subject of the elements, was Friday's fixture against Cardiff the first Albion home game to be called off because of fog? In over 50 years of Albion watching I think this was a first.

I seem to recall a match being abandoned at the Goldstone when fog came down. Anyone else remember that it is it my memory playing tricks?

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

I seem to recall a match being abandoned at the Goldstone when fog came down. Anyone else remember that it is it my memory playing tricks?

You're right but like you i can't remember the details.

 

[Colonel Angus]

I seem to recall a match being abandoned at the Goldstone when fog came down. Anyone else remember that it is it my memory playing tricks?

Not so sure. My memory of this is a bit foggy.

 

[Arkwright]

For the Macclesfield game we were heading North and realised the game was off when we saw the team bus heading South. Went to watch Derby v Saints in the FA Cup with about fifty fe!low Albion fans.

Remember going to Huddersfield away and so many games were called off that the radio only had a list of games on I think we won?

 

[m20gull]

Remember going to Huddersfield away and so many games were called off that the radio only had a list of games on I think we won?

3-1 I think. Could not believe it was still on and passed by loads of fans heading toward postponed games. The home fans did a great job clearing the pitch!

 

[Mackenzie]

Bristol Rovers, not so long ago 2008ish, was queueing at the turnstiles when the announcement was made .......quick meatballs, chips and gravy at Ikea (that'll teach 'em) then back home again.

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

1990 Boxing day *Bristol Rover* at home should have got abandoned,wettest game i ever remember,pitch was ruined for the season after that one.

 

[wallyback]

No, we actually lost the replay 2-1 (10th May 1977). But it didn't matter by then as we were pretty much promoted by then anyway. Had the original game not been abandoned and we had lost 4-0 or most probably by more the way things were going it might have affected us psychologically and derailed our promotion push. As it was it gave everyone a feeling of elation. That season could have finished very differently had that match not been abandoned.
http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/HeadToHead.asp?Team=Brighton and Hove Albion

Ah yes that's right. Thanks for the info

 

[The Wookiee]

Mansfield away late 90's, was called off as part of stadium was unsafe due to high winds ? Went to Sheff Utd v Portsmouth instead

 

[pearl]

I was probably there at the same time as you. Arrived at the Shay, with my daughter, to find the rugby posts were still in situ from the previous night's RL fixture. To rub salt in the wound I had hired a car to make the journey from Southampton ( I don't think my old banger would have made it! ), and I checked Ceefax ( remember that! ) at 8.00 to make sure that the game was still on. Grrr!

P.S. It was first of the two postponed fixtures for the Albion at Halifax that season - April 2001.

yeah, three of us went up by train for that, we ran around the pitch, got nice and muddy, then went on a pub crawl round Halifax

 

[pearl]

Wrexham away in the cup about five years ago


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when it moved to the next night? I got home at 3am and had to get up for work at 6. The Wrexham fans were great though, I almost wished they'd won that match

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Been very lucky with games being called off. Furthest I have ever got travelling to a game that was called off is the shell garage at Preston Park quite a few Boxing Days ago when our game at Dagenham & Redbridge was called off.

Was that the Withdean game where the pitch was deemed playable but the stands were deemed too dangerously slippy? Vaguely recall there was one game where that happened.

 

[Beach Hut]

Was that the Withdean game where the pitch was deemed playable but the stands were deemed too dangerously slippy? Vaguely recall there was one game where that happened.

Which bit of our game at Dagenham & Redbridge did you miss ?

 

[pasty]

Was that the Withdean game where the pitch was deemed playable but the stands were deemed too dangerously slippy? Vaguely recall there was one game where that happened.

No. I do seem to remember something like that happening, but I was referring to an away game at D&R.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Which bit of our game at Dagenham & Redbridge did you miss ?

The word 'at'

 

[Seagulls Downunder]

Worst one for me was reaching Halifax in 2001 after 5 hours driving through crappy traffic and some rain to hear it was called off close to k.o. time (largely due to the rugby game played on the same pitch 1-2 days before).



The rugby league match was on the night before, played in awful weather but there was no chance of it being called off, it was live on Sky.
I drove up in that weather the night before, 7hrs, 2hrs just to get round Birmingham because of roadworks & an accident, woke in the morning to find it was called off.

 

[lawros left foot]

Of course not weather related, but the infamous York City game'riot' 1 of only 2 abandonments that ive ever been at.
The other was the 1977 Swindon game