The hottest and coldest game

[Guesty]

It was amazing Guesty ,I loved it and am hooked. Hope the patriots win it now ,Tom Brady is something else.

Glad you enjoyed it! Brady was excellent at Wembley this year, tore apart a usually competitive Rams team. I'm a Redskins fan myself (and I'm not the only Blade who is, I saw a 'Skins coat on the Kop the other week) but typically I've never seen them win anything.

 

[mattbianco1]

Coldest - Bristol a couple if years ago

0-0 when we played in Black on a Tuesday night???? If so, yeah that was absolutely Baltic!

 

[sitwell]

Bills are worse but complete new backroom and 7 months to get it right ,hope lies eternal. I sound like a Blade

 

[SwissBlade]

Hottest - play off final 97
Coldest - never been cold at a game

 

[Northern Rivers Blade]

Hottest: April 1984, Rotherham away. So hot (and packed in the away end) that I passed out. I woke up down the front in time to see Bob Atkins turn and volley a last-minute winner from the edge of the box. A strange day all round.

 

[Samantha]

Hottest - Wembley last May (and I wasn't even sat in the sun)
Coldest - Derby away as previously mentioned, Crewe at home on Friday night on Sky (that game should never have gone ahead& to this day I believe it only did because of Sky). I think we did Wrexham or Shrewsbury away one night in a cup game... I'm leaning towards Shrewsbury. That was bloody cold too.

 

[Blade58]

Don't know about hottest, but the coldest for me was late 80's (I think) Mansfield away night match. Stood on open away end and it was f'kin belting down with snow

 

[super_pig]

last game of the season with no roof on the kop (Norwich?) was a hot one

 

[Greenwich Blade]

That Charlton 5-2 away game was the coldest match I've ever stood on the pavement outside a ground for, having had a disagreement with a steward on entry and was soon on my way out with an arm up my back (Chaingate, and I'm still grumpy about it today).

Other than that, that Derby game was indeed a chilly one, and in time-honoured fashion I had my hitchhiking boots on. I was at Leicester Forest with snow piled up everywhere on the way back, and there was a truck parked on the slip road. The driver wandered over and said he was on his break, but if I was still there an hour later he'd give me a lift all the way to the M25. Sure enough, one hour later and I was in!

We sped down the M1 because by now it was well past midnight, the road was clear(ish) of snow, and the hard-shoulder was pretty much nose-to-tail with abandoned vehicles. The traffic only got bad once we hit the M25. I eventually got dropped off at the Enfield turn-off and had the interesting experience of waiting for a night bus at 4am in the snow.

The hottest was undoubtedly that Gillingham game, although Wembley last year was a scorcher, along with that promotion thriller at Leicester in 1990.

 

[super_pig]

yeah leicester 90 was a hot day
none of them can top Crematoria at Wembley though

 

[Sothall_Blade]

Hottest - in the blazing sun at Wembley last time.

Coldest - Southampton away the other year, Bristol a couple if years ago (following a snow plow for miles with Ballinpigpubs13 ), Charlton away 5-2, Derby away and most visits to Preston.

 

[raul]

Selly - for absolutely 0 points, which mutual of ours sat three places to my left kept his hoodie on all day long?

 

[kingston RAWW]

Oldhams ground has to be the coldest ground in the country.

 

[Silent Blade]

I have often seen Shred wearing only a T-shirt at matches when the weather was cold. He laughed at me for wearing wooly gloves in the FA Cup replay at Notts County in 1999!

 

[Ballinpigpubs13]

Ah yes the Bristol game is definately up there, must have been minus 2 or 3

 

[fishpie]

I've been at several of the above matches, but I don't recall it being that hot/cold! Not saying they weren't, but I've never seen it literally
look as hot as at our last play off disappointment..Thankfully we were in the shade, but it was still painfully hot and at the time I really felt for those in the sun. The stand out "climate" moment for me though remains the torrential downpour coming out of Coventry a few seasons ago. Some serious shrieking, and too many stories about people having to take their jeans off to continue their journey! home! ..BDTBL is the place to be!, maybe

 

[SE1Blade]

Hottest definately Gillingham at home (first game of season). Only time me, my dad and brother have all watched a game topless.
I remember standing up at Elm Park first game of the season under Kendall (lost 1-0) and getting sunburnt, that was a hot one.
Coldest was that Derby away match in the snow (6 hour drive there, four and a half back), but the 1-0 defeat at Selhurst Park against Wimbledon on a Monday night (game before Arsenal semi in 03) was bloody cold, even though it was April. Caught the flu sitting at that one.
However I remember a game at The Lane in 85 v Oldham (re-arranged game from the bomb find) and it was minus 16 in Sheffield that night. Was high up at the back of the south stand. Bloody freezing. Won 2-0 (Edwards and an owl goal).

 

[scouseblade]

For me home game was League Cup vs Watford - bloody cold and boring. Close second Bury in FA Cup - drew 1-1 snow swirling around the Lane. My dad says the away game at Derby - he could see the pitch freezing!

Hottest game - Blades away at Wolves - must have been around 1997 (spackman manager and mcgrath playing) finished 0-0 not surprised must have been 30+ degrees easily. Remember one and only time I had worn shorts to the United game.

 

[Geordie Blade]

Both have already been mentioned, but mine are:

Hottest - place-off final in 2012.
Coldest - Mansfield away (1989). 1-0 (Duffield penalty). The turning point in Bob Booker's career.

 

[davidpinder]

Hottest i'd have to say the Gillingham game 0-0, Coldest for me was a mid week match at Crystal palace just before christmas we went on a beer run to Calais (them were the days) then to the match on the way home but i have a terrible memory so all i remember is walking out singing, " jingle bells jingle bells jingle all the way oh what fun it is to see united win away" so we won i know that The worst weather day however was away at Rotherham friday night on sky i think it pissed it down before and after and there was a piss river running in and out of the ground.

 

[Hodgyman]

Hottest - I agree with several comments on here, Wembley last year was extremely hot in the sun. I even resorted to drinking water.

Coldest (for me) Two stick in the mind.

A midweek game Scunthorpe away in their old stadium abot 25 years ago. Me and my lad got through a very large flask of Bovril and then bought 3 more each for us in the ground.

The other was also a mid-week game against the old Wimbledon ( perhaps 2003/2004) when they played at Palace's ground. I was wearing more layers than an onion, hat, scarf, goves the lot and was still perished. To make matters worse we absolutely battered them and lost 1-0.

 

[Revolution]

Coldest for me was a mid week match at Crystal palace just before christmas we went on a beer run to Calais (them were the days) then to the match on the way home but i have a terrible memory so all i remember is walking out singing, " jingle bells jingle bells jingle all the way oh what fun it is to see united win away" so we won i know that .

That's the coldest game for me too. We won 1-0 just before Christmas 1996. There was horizontal sleet for most of the second half.

Hottest game for me was the Reading away game in the same season (lost 1-0) that SE1Blade mentions above. I missed the Gillingham game in 2003-4 but remember the day well - I am sure that was hotter.

However I remember a game at The Lane in 85 v Oldham (re-arranged game from the bomb find) and it was minus 16 in Sheffield that night. Was high up at the back of the south stand. Bloody freezing. Won 2-0 (Edwards and an owl goal).

Yes, it was freezing that night. The ground was bone hard, and many of the players wore trainers rather than boots.

And I have mentioned it before, but no contest for the wettest game: Oxford away, 1998-9.

 

[Eskimo]

Cold games
I agree with Grecian about Watford away when we lost 5-0.
Everyone huddled together like girls to keep warm
A winger called Callaghan??was supposed to be signing for us and was at the match but we were so poor he went and signed elsewhere.

Also Boxing Day? 78 or 80? away at Fulham was bitterly cold.

Mansfield away in a blizzard one evening on the open terrace during Bassetts time when our centre half Webster broke his leg was pretty nippy too?

 

[mattbianco1]

Coldest Game: If we went outside and played Right Now

 

[Geordie Blade]

Eskimo - that was a slightly different Mansfield game. Webster broke his leg in the cup game of that same season. We drew 1-1 (a lovely individual goal by Deano). That game wasn't too cold, but the league game later in the season was absolutely terrible weather.