Snowed off?

[snootyfenooty]

They were all right for goalies, though. Most people couldn't kick them very hard, and they went in a straight line, no dipping and swerving. There was no getting it up and over a wall from a free-kick. It was a bugger taking a goal-kick on a muddy pitch, mind.

The only way I could kick one of those more than 10 yards on a muddy pitch was to toe end the fucker.

 

[Camden Blade]

Yes but it says from 4pm onwards tomorrow. Game will have started and be over before it gets really bad. See here:

It says an amber warning for snow on the met office site

 

[snootyfenooty]

I expect we'll wake up to a few inches and council will be round the lane with a clipboard.

A council worker in on a Saturday? You're having a laugh! That's why they postpone them a day or two before.

 

[Harrisblade]

They were all right for goalies, though. Most people couldn't kick them very hard, and they went in a straight line, no dipping and swerving. There was no getting it up and over a wall from a free-kick. It was a bugger taking a goal-kick on a muddy pitch, mind.

Actually (at school games) it was a bugger taking a goal-kick at any time.
Scored many a goal by just standing at the edge of the penalty area and just waiting for the goal-kick to trickle out of it - but then, we were the "remnants" (not good enough to be picked for the proper teams )

 

[SherburnBlade]

I have worked for Royal Mail for nearly 39 years but have never been a postman. I am a CSA working in HR

Can you sort out my overtime? haven't been paid any for the last 3 weeks!

 

[Cerberus Blade]

If snow falls tomorrow then it will be soft and not too slippy. It is more dangerous on the pavements when there is a few days of snow and then it turns into hard snow/ice

It’s dangerous even if it’s just raining at the railway station. I’ve heard the announcements.

 

[Dkc]

It used to be all about how the playing surface was. It you could play football on it, the game went ahead.

In this fucking stupid risk-averse culture, they will cancel a football game on a whim. Yet gigs at the Arena go ahead (the Brook fight went ahead after our last cancelled game, and that was at night), Town centre shops remain open, the theatres and cinemas don't close, Meadowhall doesn't close. Why is holding a professional football match deemed too dangerous when it snows, but no other activity is?

 

[Bartleby]

Yes but it says from 4pm onwards tomorrow. Game will have started and be over before it gets really bad. See here:

Amber one is for 4PM but the detailed forecast for S2 is showing heavy snow overnight tonight, and temps bat or below zero, so if that materialises the pitch may need a bit of clearing for it to go ahead.

 

[Carlton Blade]

Get the orange ball out. We'll be fine

 

[Camden Blade]

Amber one is for 4PM but the detailed forecast for S2 is showing heavy snow overnight tonight, and temps bat or below zero, so if that materialises the pitch may need a bit of clearing for it to go ahead.

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Thanks. I will decide tomorrow morning whether to set off. I'm training it from London and will just have to take the £60 train fare hit. Could be worse.

 

[Yellarbellyblade]

I'm old enough to have played with those balls. First time I headed one I thought I was going to die.

My grandad gave me one as a kid. First time I kicked it I nearly gave up football on the spot

 

[Torrix1889]

Thanks. I will decide tomorrow morning whether to set off. I'm training it from London and will just have to take the £60 train fare hit. Could be worse.

We are training from Leicestershire....it's getting up there, watching the game then getting back to the station to find they have cancelled all the trains that concerns me!

 

[Camden Blade]

We are training from Leicestershire....it's getting up there, watching the game then getting back to the station to find they have cancelled all the trains that concerns me!

Yeah that too. East Midland told me they plan running a full service tomorrow and that they will do everything they can to ensure customers reach their destinations in the event of disruption. Forecasts are often wrong.

 

[SB_90]

expect we'll wake up to a few inches
.

Speak for yourself.

 

[Snowman]

Just started snowing in Fulwood. No worries. It's big sloppy wet flakes. Crap calling game off snow.

 

[SB_90]

The game will be on. I can imagine it being league cup semi v spurs were it came down during 2nd half

 

[scottyblade70]

Nothing so far in Birley.

 

[ChipButtyBlade]

I'm in S2 and Billy Murphy says its fuckin snowing.

 

[zablade]

The game will be on. I can imagine it being league cup semi v spurs were it came down during 2nd half

That were a fuckin cold night!

 

[SB_90]

That were a fuckin cold night!

Yeah freezing & in hindsight glad eriksen got the winner. Because another 30/45mins & i was walking home

 

[SB_90]

I might have to put another layer on. Instead of shirt & coat. Going to feel like between - 7 to - 12. Toasty

 

[Lane Ender]

12.00 no snow In Ridgeway

 

[JohnDenver]

That were a fuckin cold night!

After Louis Reed has his Tommy Mooney moment and crushed my cup final hopes for the Xth time, I trudged home in the blizzard up Chezzie Road, and a bus plunged through a massive puddle outside the White Lion, spraying me from head to foot in ice-cold filthy water.

The footballing gods were presumably falling about laughing by this point...

 

[Lane Ender]

Absolute bollocks.

I have praised The Manager, Sharp, Duffy, Brooks throughout the season to name but four.

The board and owners are another matter, they have blown a golden chance of promotion with a lack of investment.

Yea I’m a moaning cunt got to be an age thing

 

[Davalon]

Snowing heavy here in S5 but no sign of settling at all so far.

The forecast has worsened for tomorrow (today now) tbf so may get interesting. Used to love playing in a bit of snow with the orange ball when such things weren't life threatening like they are now.

 

[Lane Ender]

Reporting from Ridgeway little bit of snow nowt serious 1,00 am

 

[Bartleby]

Snowing heavy here in S5 but no sign of settling at all so far.

The forecast has worsened for tomorrow (today now) tbf so may get interesting. Used to love playing in a bit of snow with the orange ball when such things weren't life threatening like they are now.

Forecast where I am in west Yorks been saying Heavy Snow all night, starting 22:00 last night. Hardly owt so far just a bit of light snow that fizzled out.

Not a right deal on here either so far http://uksnowmap.com/

 

[torridon]

Car windscreens white over here in Bradwell but nothing sticking on the grass yet.

 

[Snowman]

Snow update Fulwood. Light flurries. Not settling on roads. Pathetic attempt.

 

[SwissBlade]

Basra update - No snow here, thunderstorms last night though.Wet Sand