Hottest United game you have been to.

[Guesty]

Not an original answer but definitely the Huddersfield play-off final. I think it was around 40C pitch side.

Those twatrackets who frequently bang on about how our fans were terrible and made no noise all game should have felt what it was like in that suntrap. I wasn't in the shade until the second half of Extra Time.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

There was a man from Huddersfield
Who had a cow that wouldn't yield
The reason why it wouldn't yield?...
It didn't like its udders feeled!

 

[raul]

Mention must go to Burnley away at start of 04/05. Think there was some temp traffic signals at Todmordern which backed the traffic back to just outside Halifax. Carriageway strewn with overheated cars all the way across. Giddy Blade, are you still out there?

 

[Darren]

Not an original answer but definitely the Huddersfield play-off final. I think it was around 40C pitch side.

Those twatrackets who frequently bang on about how our fans were terrible and made no noise all game should have felt what it was like in that suntrap. I wasn't in the shade until the second half of Extra Time.

Which reminds me... can anyone link to that very funny HTFC World carton re that game...

 

[Deadly_D'Jaffo]

I recall a first game of the season against Portsmouth at home? I think Nicolas Weber (who?) and Georges Santos made their debut and we won 2-1.

I was in the bottom half of the kop and had a thumping migraine sat in the exposed heat. I went home after a lovely shade of saffron. Ouch.

 

[Balham]

Definitely Gillingham 2003/4. I think it was 33 degrees in Sheffield, and i'm sure that was the day we had the all-time record of around 38 degrees further south ?

Edit: Yep - all time UK record 38.5 degrees in Kent.

Let's be glad that it wasn't Gillingham away then. Imagine the Meccano away end in near 40c - carnage.

 

[Mustela Putorius Furo]

Definitely Gillingham 2003/4. I think it was 33 degrees in Sheffield, and i'm sure that was the day we had the all-time record of around 38 degrees further south ?

Edit: Yep - all time UK record 38.5 degrees in Kent.

yep definitely that game... first time I ever noticed the catering giving out water as routine - nay, stewards even encouraging people to go and get a drink - free of course) - and they ran out of cups at the back of the kop!

I got badly burned that day but didn't notice till waking up at 3:00 in the morning with my arms searing like a juicy steak!

 

[Silent Blade]

I recall a first game of the season against Portsmouth at home? I think Nicolas Weber (who?) and Georges Santos made their debut and we won 2-1.

I was in the bottom half of the kop and had a thumping migraine sat in the exposed heat. I went home after a lovely shade of saffron. Ouch.

2000. It was 2-0. Devlin got our first with a penalty and the second was an own goal by Primus

 

[torridon]

The Norwich game without the roof left me with a very red bonce, Portsmouth away sometime in the 90's with the sun beating down from the side leaving me with a half burnt face, but the worst was definitely the Huddersfield play off final, I went prepared with sun cream and hat but to sit in that heat was torture.

 

[grafikhaus]

Forgot about that one, a scorcher and a much, much bigger crowd than reported.

Agreed. They published a crowd of ca. 21k but there was probably that many on the kop that day.

The 2009 Burnley play-off final was hot so, for the 2012 Huddersfield game, I insisted on a seat in the shade. The ticket office weren't pleased as they're under instructions to sell the seats most visible on the telly (i.e. sunny side) first.

I've always thought Wembley have got this wrong. The cameras should be on the tunnel side so the 'visible' crowd are in the shade and we're spared the sight of the fat, corporate fuckers drifting back halfway through the second half.

In Spanish bullfighting, the seats in the sun (sol) are the cheapest. Those in the shade (sombre) the most expensive and half & half (as the sun moves round - sol y sombre) are medium-priced. Makes sense but since when did the FA give a fuck about the fans?

 

[Grecian2000]

All depends where you are in the stadium really doesn't it. A bit of shade and all's good.

Worst one for me was at Molineaux when Paul McGrath played and we were facing into the sun at the side of the pitch. Fucking horrendous. Any other time when we'd been behind the goal would've been fine but not that day. Went under the stand at half time and couldn't get it in it was that full of sheltering Blades.

 

[Deleted member 875]

Mention must go to Burnley away at start of 04/05. Think there was some temp traffic signals at Todmordern which backed the traffic back to just outside Halifax. Carriageway strewn with overheated cars all the way across. Giddy Blade, are you still out there?

I went to that game with happyhippy on Shreds coach and it wasn't much fun at all as there was no air conditioning on the coach and no working lavatorial facilities either, which didn't bode particularly well after a heavy dinner time session in Hebden Bridge

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

Croydon 2, Doncaster Belles 1 - Women's FA Cup Final 2000 at Bramall Lane.

Or, vs Burnley at Wembley

 

[HighfieldBlade]

First ever game of the PL was pretty warm too as I recall.

 

[S6Blade]

Gillingham at home no question. The heat on the Kop was unbearable.

Running it close were the play off finals and Burnley away as people have mentioned. I also recall a trip to Derby around 2009/10 was particularly hot as well.

 

[Selly]

absolutely, no question about it - play off final u udders.

The sun appeared on us just at kick off - just an absolute nightmare......and come to think of it, the end result was a nightmare too - is that ball still in the stratosphere?.

UTB

Dont be silly.

It's way past Pluto by now...

 

[vorpal blade]

In Spanish bullfighting, the seats in the sun (sol) are the cheapest. Those in the shade (sombre) the most expensive and half & half (as the sun moves round - sol y sombre) are medium-priced

and why they call the cheap seats at Baseball Stadia 'the Bleachers'

 

[Deadly_D'Jaffo]

All depends where you are in the stadium really doesn't it. A bit of shade and all's good.

Worst one for me was at Molineaux when Paul McGrath played and we were facing into the sun at the side of the pitch. Fucking horrendous. Any other time when we'd been behind the goal would've been fine but not that day. Went under the stand at half time and couldn't get it in it was that full of sheltering Blades.

0-0 Dullfest. My lasting memory of that game was a fan getting clearly fed up with the lack of atmosphere standing up, turning around and yelling out "C'MON!! GET SINGING!! WE MIGHT AS WELL NOT BE HERE!!"

A group of our fans obliged by singing a repeated chorus of "we might as well not be here, we might as well not, we might as well not, we might as well not be hereeee".

 

[Ben_1982]

The only time I've ever got sunburnt, at home or abroad was the Huddersfield play off final

 

[ZoneManWilf]

Gillingham for me the overall hottest, the heat even in the shade was intense. But Hudders was probably a worse experience as was right in the sun for the entire match, and got grilled.

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

By far Burnley away, opening match of the 2004-05 season.

How some people didn't die on Shred's coach I'll never know.

 

[SB_90]

Problem with my memories of bramall lane more associate games I got soaked or absolutely frozen & losing feeling in my toes.

But I would have to say Huddersfield head & shoulders above any game I can remember in August april or May I was on the corner sunburnt & felt like id sat in an oven for 105mins til the blessed relef of shade in 2nd half of ET. Although got to say im sure I went to that match v Gillingham in either 02/03 but I cant remember a jot about heat or result

 

[boo radley]

Gills game. car was packed for a week away in Oxfordshire. the whole week was sweltering.

 

[Jehovah]

There can be no doubt it was Hudds at Wembley. It was 45c the first penalty and -2c at the end.

 

[BusheyBlade]

Huddersfield play off final was ridiculous. I was sat for half an hour before kick off followed by the best part of 3 hours during the match in the baking heat, full on sunshine. I was amazed that no water was being sold between full time and extra time on account of them not being licenced to sell, it wasn't surprising to see the tables being set up to give away water shortly after. I actually wrote to the FA and Wembley to say how disgusting it was, all I got was a bog standard response.

Special mention for Reading away in 97 too. I remember seeing Petr Kachuro come on to make his debut, he got shoved into the advertising boards after a few minutes in a typical "welcome to England" kind of tackle. It was so hot I ended up walking to Reading station toples.