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?

 

[Cappy]

 

[Silent Blade]

I was hoping for that date as we didnt have a game for between January 31st and February 9th

 

[HighfieldBlade]

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.

Dwight Yorke it was.
I was on the kop end where that pen was taken. I and many others gave a derisory laugh thinking he'd missed, then we realised he'd scored!

 

[DifferentClass]

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.

Didn't "Slobodan" get pelted wi snowballs from Kop?

 

[Selly]

Dwight Yorke it was.
I was on the kop end where that pen was taken. I and many others gave a derisory laugh thinking he'd missed, then we realised he'd scored!

Gotta say I would have sworn blind that the game was played in full daylight. Still one of the more egregious dives I've ever seen...

 

[HighfieldBlade]

Didn't "Slobodan" get pelted wi snowballs from Kop?

Yes he did!

 

[Missing Spark]

Ooh good. Four home games in February. Love it.

Tuesday, Monday, Sunday and Wednesday.

 

[More Bladier than thou]

Dwight Yorke it was.
I was on the kop end where that pen was taken. I and many others gave a derisory laugh thinking he'd missed, then we realised he'd scored!

I threw a snowball at him , i missed….also remember Nigel Kennedy the violinist getting alot of abuse on the ss, think he got chucked out for his own safety

 

[HighfieldBlade]

I threw a snowball at him , i missed….also remember Nigel Kennedy the violinist getting alot of abuse on the ss, think he got chucked out for his own safety

Yeah I'd completely forgotten Nigel Kennedy was there.

 

[Hanauer]

No, but Blades fans right next to him did. He was totally rat arsed.