1) Coldest and 2) Wettest you have ever been at a SUFC game?

[Reg Martin]

The new mk dons stadium coldest for me when we played there between christmas and new year - 8/9 season I think. My hands were shaking holding the hot drink I was drinking to try to warm up. The wind whipping through the stand at Mansfield last season was unpleasant but not quite as cold.
The wettest game for me was Plymouth away in the Sturrock era, though strictly speaking it was after the game I got soaked walking back to my b&b - which added to my joyful mood as we gave away a two goal lead in the last couple of minutes.

 

[ozzie]

coldest..maybe 69, v Aldershot,..just over 2,000 fans at Roots Hall, those days !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wettest..(England) 2 years ago in Poland,the c&&ts did not close the roof,paid for a black market ticket ,return train ticket,over night in a "hostel", 14 to a room,had to leave to go back about 10 hours before the game was played, the day after.. all for nowt..And Hodgson blamed it on( Englands poor performance),that they stayed another day in a luxury hotel!!

 

[Bobby dazzler]

We lost 3-2 I think with David Martin as captain and Keegan as their manager.

It is important to note that there was no roof over the away fans and so we were rained on all game - I swear that it started to rain just before the game and it stopped raining when we crossed the Tyne coming home. I remember seeing someone with a blue Southend United cap that ran blue dye all over his head and neck. :sad:

I was there that rainy day. No roof. No cover. Just torrential rain. That's the north for you !

Those of a certain age have been to many grounds that were simply awful. Too many to name but adventures all the same.

My memory is poor but was it Halifax that had the Away End that was just an Earth mound ? I seem to remember a particular mid week game open to the elements there.

 

[Bobby dazzler]

I also remember Scarbrough away in their first game against us and a young Micky Staines impaling his hand on the fence and spending the rest of the game at A&E

 

[Bolton Shrimper]

Coldest : FAC3 Jan 79 Home v Liverpool was bad. So was Huddersfield Away Dec 2005 and of course MK Dons was bad twice.
Wettest : More a question for the Ladies I think :winking:

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

MK Dons away - cold wind and lost

Oxford away - chucked down, no roof and lost 5-0

 

[Massimo Giovanni]

Wettest... Newcastle United away, first game of the 1992/3 season. It absolutely lashed it down. It didn't help that it was not forecast and most of us were in t shirts given the balmy August temperature. I've never seen so much rain at a football game.

Coldest... the coldest I've ever been at a FL game was actually Accrington v Bury Xmas 2009... wasn't helped that I didn't have a coat and it was snowing. For Southend, I'd say MK Dons, but at their new stadium when we played them over new year a few seasons back.

You are not wrong about Newcastle; sodden through and through: & to make the agony longer we got kept in by plod as the geordie boys wanted to do unspeakable nastiness to us after the game!

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

2 coldest were both at MK Dons, old and new stadium. One of the wettest was at Gillingham in 1972. But we stayed dry, as we filled their covered 'end'!.

 

[Jam_Man]

Was that the game we drew 1-1? Both teams were doing well at the top of the division (3 or 4 - I'm not sure). We were winning 1-0 when a back pass (from Spencer?) got stuck in the mud and their striker latched onto it to score. It was both very cold and very wet on that miserable day.

Yep that was the very game.

Boy did I curse Prior for that one!

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Wettest... Newcastle United away, first game of the 1992/3 season. It absolutely lashed it down. It didn't help that it was not forecast and most of us were in t shirts given the balmy August temperature. I've never seen so much rain at a football game.

Coldest... the coldest I've ever been at a FL game was actually Accrington v Bury Xmas 2009... wasn't helped that I didn't have a coat and it was snowing. For Southend, I'd say MK Dons, but at their new stadium when we played them over new year a few seasons back.

Certainly agree with that.And I'd moved into the open,away end after first being in the Newcasle enclosure (under cover,on the half-way line) just before the game had started.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

You are not wrong about Newcastle; sodden through and through: & to make the agony longer we got kept in by plod as the geordie boys wanted to do unspeakable nastiness to us after the game!

Yup.And I simply had to get the last 17.15 train back to Nottingham (where I was staying at my brother's).

Remember a WPC told me to FO before I showed my BR ticket to a more friendly plod at the back of the stand,who let me out early, "at your own risk."

 

[sufcwatcha1]

Yup.And I simply had to get the last 17.15 train back to Nottingham (where I was staying at my brother's).

Remember a WPC told me to FO before I showed my BR ticket to a more friendly plod at the back of the stand,who let me out early, "at your own risk."

We got chased down the hill by the geordie nut heads and received a few slaps at the train station .

 

[Bearded Shrimper]

i think my coldest was not that long ago. I think it was Crewe at home and Billy Jones, left back rather than right, scored the only goal from a free kick. it took hours for me to feel my feet again, hours. Hate losing 1-0 at home.

Daggers away last season was pretty wet, but we were in the nice new covered stand, thanks lads!

 

[Bearded Shrimper]

Coldest : FAC3 Jan 79 Home v Liverpool was bad. So was Huddersfield Away Dec 2005 and of course MK Dons was bad twice.
Wettest : More a question for the Ladies I think :winking:

at the risk of sounding young my mum was there, but i think too traumatised by it to mention the snow i see on the 'highlights'. she said she feared for her life coz they packed so many in. probably for the body heat

 

[wally4pm]

Coldest was a Tranmere away game on a Friday night some years ago. It was so cold my mate had no gloves and I let him have one of mine so that we could at least keep one hand warm. I think we got a late equaliser and drew. The next day we went to watch Stockport play somebody as it was a ground we hadn't visited before and it was glorious sunshine!
Wettest was Walsall away at their old ground in mid week for a Naff Daff trophy or whatever it was called then and the guttering gave away above the away supporters and we were soaked to the skin and I drove all the way home absolutely drenched. I think we got well stuffed about 3-0 or some thing like that. I had to visit the doctor the next day to have my sanity checked out as to why I was there in the first place!

 

[SouthUpperShrimper]

Barnet away in 2010/11 was pretty cold

 

[Big Bad Barry Corr]

Coldest: Definitely the FA Cup replay at Roots Hall against Bury a few years back. I've never wished a match to finish in 90 minutes so badly - however the match went to extra time and penalties (of which Dan Bentley saved 3 of Bury's and sent us through).

That was the one I thought of too. Jeez, it was utterly freezing that night. I want to the game wearing a pair of pyjama trousers under my jeans as I remember, a jumper, fleece, one of those padded Southend coats and I was still shaking from the cold.

 

[Massimo Giovanni]

SORRY, nightmare alert! DUCKS..............Wettest in soul and body.

 

[LennySUFC]

Cold was MK dons at the hockey stadium!

 

[Kevin Hogg]

Coldest? Home to Rotherham United Feb 10th 2012. Lost 0-2. Just got home from living overseas. Bleak night, appalling performance and I couldn't believe the cold. I kept thinking "is this what i have been craving for"?

Wettest? Both already been mentioned. Away to Newcastle United and away to Palace.