Whot happend when the lights went out?

[CHEMICO FC]

Very strange afair that was today Southend where flying before the lights went out.We had a great show in the East stand where all these fans camera lights opposite in the west stand come slowly on it was a great light show.It will be in the papers tommorow i recon.

Was this a first time at Southend utd flood lights failed ?

Well done to the Sparky.

 

[Chairman Trigg]

good pic on the clubs site of the Wests light show

 

[Cockle43]

Was this a first time at Southend utd flood lights failed ?

Well, I've been attending matches at Roots Hall for nearly 48 years and I've never seen a complete pylon or two of floodlights go out before, the odd lamp or two, yes, but never like today.

 

[OldBlueLady]

Well, I've been attending matches at Roots Hall for nearly 48 years and I've never seen a complete pylon or two of floodlights go out before, the odd lamp or two, yes, but never like today.

Yes, same here, 40 odd years coming to matches and I've never seen a whole floodlight pylon go........presumably the others were taken off to allow the problem to be solved safely.

 

[davewebbsbrain]

Yes, same here, 400 odd years coming to matches and I've never seen a whole floodlight pylon go........presumably the others were taken off to allow the problem to be solved safely.

Edited for accuracy :smile:

 

[ms brush]

We wondered if uncle Ron had forgotten to pay the electric bill...

 

[OldBlueLady]

We wondered if uncle Ron had forgotten to pay the electric bill...

Would it have just been the floodlights if that were the case...?

 

[ms brush]

Good point! The other theory was that the Millwall lot sabotaged them cos they were losing...

 

[Big Bad Barry Corr]

I heard from one of the stewards that another steward had accidentally (in the company of a director) hit a wrong switch but Dave Jobson had taken responsibility for this and it had been covered up.

 

[BryanDogg]

Good couple of lines here:
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jan/04/saturday-sundae-macclesfield-cup-southend

 

[Suffolk Shrimper In Dorset]

We wondered if uncle Ron had forgotten to pay the electric bill...

That comment was made around us too but then someone quickly remarked that he doesn't pay any bills

 

[ozzie]

if i remember ,back in the early 70s,the lights went out at a home game, when we had a generator running, coz of then ,power cuts/strikes!!!! one "cad" run onto the pitch,from the north bank with a lighter!! can anybody remember that???

 

[RobM]

It has happened before, 1968 or so. I was there but don't remember details.

 

[A Century United]

This was arranged by ITV so their cameraman had more time to get over from Southampton.

From the "highlights" he clearly didn't make it.

 

[Pak Power]

It got darker! :winking:

 

[South Bank Hank]

I'd love to have been a fly on the wall behind the scenes. Even if it is about applying hindsight, our players and manager seemed to want it more: we were out before Millwall; we were warming up; we were training; we were there to do a job - and we did just that. Just one more tick in the box on an epic day for our club.

 

[bazzashrimper]

I was half expecting that the power on the turnstiles also had a failure. "Today's attendance is 1265 of which 2312 were from millwall, how much VAT is there on 1265 junior tickets?"

 

[Barry.C]

BBC sport says we signed Gomis . He said to end of season and with an option for next year. But he coudnt see in the dark that the contract rushed under his hooter included wages of £97.50 p.w.

 

[jaffa1]

Was wondering if we would not be so smug/resentful about Aldershot at one point.....

 

[Murkey_Mouse]

What I don't like about floodlight failure that we would start the reply at 0-0 instead of carry on same score and minutes left of the match like Spanish league (designed to stop clubs from cheating by cutting their floodlight long time ago when they was losing in their vital match!).