Game off

[Rodders]

We first had undersoil heating before 1995, cant remember when exactly but definitely after 1991 as I remember thinking that our home game against Villa in December 1991 would be called off because frost was forecasted and we didnt have undersoil heating at the time. When I got up on that Saturday I thought the chances for the Villa match going ahead would be very slim because there was very thick fog in Dronfield. I kept checking Ceefax expecting postponement but then decided to go by bus. Still very foggy in Dronfield until the bus reached the Bowshaw roundabout and then there was no fog at all! Very clear all the way to the City Centre. We won 2-0 but when I caught the bus back and as soon as it reached Bowshaw we entered the thick fog in Dronfield. Strange!

The undersoil heating helped the FA Cup match against Villa in January 1996 to go ahead.

Are you sure it wasn't Teletext?

 

[sitwell]

Pathetic, the lot of you, and not least for the long list of misogyny in this thread: vaginas, sand up the vag, washer women, hysterical teenage girls etc. Yet you’re all presumably males, can you see the irony?

On the irony board love

 

[Ndiayewillalwaysloveyou]

Part of this is wrong. I was sat in the Bankers at 10am with 2 srewards from the lane . Btw they were all paid for the full shift.

Near the coffee machine? We was on the next table near bar planning our day out

 

[Bladesman]

 

[Grey Blade]

Couldn 't they have given us that info earlier in the week - on Monday surely?

 

[Darnall Siam Blade]

Yes, the Villa game in 1996 was an F.A cup tie 3rd round in January. I flew over from Turkey ,especially for the game. When I landed in UK it was several inches deep in Snow. On the Friday night I arrived in Dronfield but on the Saturday of the match the surrounds of the Lane were still covered in snow. Maybe we had the Undersoil heating then or the staff had done a good job of clearing the snow as it was piled up around the sides. Don't think it would have been played today because of the surrounding roads being a danger but the match being televised must have played a part,
As for the match itself we lost 1-0 to a penalty which Missalotovitch (as Villa fans called him) dived for a penalty which Cole ( I think) scored with the first dinked down the middle ,I ever saw.

 

[Silent Blade]

Yes, the Villa game in 1996 was an F.A cup tie 3rd round in January. I flew over from Turkey ,especially for the game. When I landed in UK it was several inches deep in Snow. On the Friday night I arrived in Dronfield but on the Saturday of the match the surrounds of the Lane were still covered in snow. Maybe we had the Undersoil heating then or the staff had done a good job of clearing the snow as it was piled up around the sides. Don't think it would have been played today because of the surrounding roads being a danger but the match being televised must have played a part,
As for the match itself we lost 1-0 to a penalty which Missalotovitch (as Villa fans called him) dived for a penalty which Cole ( I think) scored with the first dinked down the middle ,I ever saw.

Yorke scored

 

[DifferentClass]

Why couldn't today have been called off?