Worst Pitch you have seen a Game Played On ?

[perseus]

Worst Pitch you have seen a Game Played On ?

Aldershot v Albion FA Cup late sixties, by far.

 

[Jack Straw]

Before reading this thread, that's exactly the match I would have chosen.
If I remember correctly, the only player who came off of the pitch at the end of the game who didn't look like a chocolate soldier was Kit Napier, who didn't have a speckle of mud on him.
So how about v Southend at Withdean?

 

[element]

I remember waiting outside The Goldstone for a night game in the pissing rain, while they cleared the pitch with a 'Whale' (?) water removal machine borrowed from SCCC. The game went ahead, but the pitch was only just passable. Early/mid nineties IIRC...

 

[T soprano]

Brighton v Palace
Stamford bridge
76/77
FA cup 2nd replay

 

[perseus]

Aldershot was like the Adur mud flats. Unplayable. Not a hint of grass anywhere. An Albion supporter waded on to the pitch before KO and it took him over ten minutes to change ends. The Police did not fancy interfering either.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Peterborough v Brighton FA cup. Thick snow.

 

[Cantona's Flying Dropkick]

Peterborough 1986 FAC Away 2-2
Rochdale at home L 4-3

 

[upthealbion1970]

Sovereign saints tournament my under 10s played in this summer

 

[Seagulls over Lewes]

Away to Bournemouth about 20 years ago won 3-0.

 

[Tory Boy]

I remember a game against Portsmouth, early 80s, that was a wet as wet can be.

Thankfully the North had a roof at that time.

TB

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

That Southend games at Withdean, David Lee netted in a 2-0 defeat

 

[LowKarate]

Home to Bristol rovers on Boxing Day in early 90s. Lost to an early goal and never looked like equalising as pitch was unplayable.
Also got totally drowned at Barnet around 2000, but the pitch was at least ok.

 

[perseus]

Wettest was Albion 0 Walsall 0 at half-time, late seventies at the Goldstone.

 

[perseus]

 

[Spearritt of the Albion]

Stamford Bridge in 76 was pretty bad. We were playing Palace in an FA Cup 2nd Replay (the famous Mullery one!!!). The match had been postponed twice and really had to go ahead. What a game!

 

[queens park pete]

Home to Bristol rovers on Boxing Day in early 90s. Lost to an early goal and never looked like equalising as pitch was unplayable.
Also got totally drowned at Barnet around 2000, but the pitch was at least ok.

Agreed, total farce. Thank God we had a roof!

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

I remember a game against Portsmouth, early 80s, that was a wet as wet can be.

Thankfully the North had a roof at that time.

TB

Didn't we score a very late winner in that game? And they were all over us?

 

[Guinness Boy]

Oldham away on the plastic pitch. Bounce like a trampoline, every layer of skin taken off your legs in the first challenge. I played on it against their fans one year and I also played Sunday games in mud bogs. Give me mud bogs any day.

 

[Leekbrookgull]

Thats the old great ground,Gay Meadow. Shrewsbury Town.

 

[Kuipers Supporters Club]

Southend at Withdean.To quote Des Lynam "Fit for hippopotamus's not footballers"