What was your coldest United match that you have been to

[SouthEssexBlade]

No, I'm Baltic

Baltic was baltic, in Watford.

 

[71Blade]

Derby away January 2004

I remember walking round the stadium was like an ice rink how that game was not called off I'll never know

Aye. I went with my dad. We left with about 5 to go as he was so cold. Remember it being like an ice rink outside and inside. It was that bad I slipped on ice my own spit.

100% agree how this game went ahead was black ice around the stadium coldest I've ever been at a game think we won 0-1 Akinbyi from memory?

 

[Fjortoft's Aeroplane]

Nothing surely is colder than Derby away in 2004, I think it was -7. Plus we were crap that day.

I decked it twice on the ice in the 20 yard walk from work to the car that day.

Honourable mention to Rushden & Diamonds away in the FA Cup, my mate decided to leave his coat on the bus and I can still picture his regret

 

[Woodthorpe blade]

Rochdale away, early 80s was bleeding cold and wet.

 

[Pollingtonblade]

Some of the wettest away days as a spin off

Blackburn away 87/88 or could have been the previous season we got pummeled 4 nowt, rather bizarrely Steve Archibald was playing for Blackburn.

 

[1973Blade]

I think tomorrow's game against Cardiff City is looking like being a candidate for coldest game ever!

 

[YorkBlade]

Derby County away 2004, a rearranged fixture due to the weather anyway! It never should have gone ahead. I remember Tudgay scored as did Izale McLeod.

It was icy everywhere, took me hours to get there (from Stoke!!) I missed most of the first half and broke my arm slipping on ice but this was in the days when I never missed a game home or away so I just held me arm and whimpered throughout the match, then sought medical attention.

 

[ilovesufc]

Another vote for Derby away 2004. So, SO COLD

 

[1973Blade]

Derby County away 2004, a rearranged fixture due to the weather anyway! It never should have gone ahead. I remember Tudgay scored as did Izale McLeod.

It was icy everywhere, took me hours to get there (from Stoke!!) I missed most of the first half and broke my arm slipping on ice but this was in the days when I never missed a game home or away so I just held me arm and whimpered throughout the match, then sought medical attention.

Sorry to disappoint you, but Norris McWhirter has contacted me from beyond the grave to confirm that because you missed most of the first half, it doesn't count that you attended every game.

 

[Large Mendonca]

Another vote for Derby away 2004. So, SO COLD

Yep. A certain Small Mendonca wanted to eat his (frozen) chicken balti pie while soaking up the atmosphere sat in our seats, which the other 20K+ were huddled in the stands pre-match.........

 

[Bladesman101]

It wa freezing in Watford

 

[Jan Age]

Southampton at home 93…. Crap match … not shots on target … frost bite

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

The Che Adams Tottenham game at Bramall Lane wasn't pleasant.

I think it even snowed a bit during the second half.

 

[Linz]

I think tomorrow's game against Cardiff City is looking like being a candidate for coldest game ever!

Just looking at the forecast. A "real feel" temperature of minus 9. Brrrr.

 

[fifty shades of blade]

Coldest in my memory were the midweek central league games at the lane in winter

 

[BalticBlade]

Port Vale away, 10th December 1892. The match took place in a blizzard and I swear I almost got frostbite. Had to abandon the horse and carriage on the way back and seek shelter for the night in a local Inn. We ran out 10-0 winners, so it was all worth it in the end. Happy days.

 

[Linz]

Coldest in my memory were the midweek central league games at the lane in winter

I think I once wore three coats to one at Saltergate. Obligatory sausage roll and Bovril at half time to try and thaw out.

 

[Sean Thornton]

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I think I once wore three coats to one at Saltergate. Obligatory sausage roll and Bovril at half time to try and thaw out.

Foxy at Saltergate. Year unknown.

 

[John Street West Terrace]

Oldham away New Years Day 87 lost 3-1 and Grimsby away 3rd Jan 2000 absulotely fucking Baltic at both those , for a home game the 0-0 draw with Forest when the UK got hit with the beast from the east , we were in the Lane Upper and the wind chill cut you in two .. went for 2 bovrils at half time & they were fkg freezing as the dozy twat catering staff decided it’d be a good idea to top up the hot water boiler with a load more cold just before half time !!!

 

[The Crab]

Port Vale away, 10th December 1892. The match took place in a blizzard and I swear I almost got frostbite. Had to abandon the horse and carriage on the way back and seek shelter for the night in a local Inn. We ran out 10-0 winners, so it was all worth it in the end. Happy days.

Port Vale would be bleak in a heatwave

 

[John Street West Terrace]

Port Vale would be bleak in a heatwave

Can’t argue with that .. it’s like Shameless in live setting there

 

[The Crab]

Can’t argue with that .. it’s like Shameless in live setting there

Comes to something when somewhere is worse than Stoke

 

[John Street West Terrace]

Comes to something when somewhere is worse than Stoke

I’ve worked in some rough places & shit holes & Burslem is right up there !!

 

[HighfieldBlade]

Some of the wettest away days as a spin off

Blackburn away 87/88 or could have been the previous season we got pummeled 4 nowt, rather bizarrely Steve Archibald was playing for Blackburn.

Absolutely! I was piss wet through. New Year's Day away game, if memory serves. Archibald was on loan from Spurs I think.

 

[Snowflake]

Derby County away 2004, a rearranged fixture due to the weather anyway! It never should have gone ahead. I remember Tudgay scored as did Izale McLeod.

It was icy everywhere, took me hours to get there (from Stoke!!) I missed most of the first half and broke my arm slipping on ice but this was in the days when I never missed a game home or away so I just held me arm and whimpered throughout the match, then sought medical attention.

My memory of that match is not just being so cold but seeing a chap slip on the ice after the match and crack the back of his head on the pavement.
There were plenty of people around him to look after him, but I will never know how badly he was hurt. An image I cannot get out of my mind whenever I go to the general Pride Park area, which I do many times a year.

 

[SGBlade]

Oxford away. Mid 90s. Lost 4-0. Horrific.

 

[Fatlad666]

Southampton away, 1-0 win Shippley scored, even the park and ride bus windows frozen inside.

 

[Greenwich Blade]

Southampton away, 1-0 win Shippley scored, even the park and ride bus windows frozen inside.

It was between Christmas and New Year, so the Biffin Bridge, the Barse, the Tint. Anyway, it was fun hitching back from that one. Wapping Blade dropped me off at the A34/M4 junction (I think), and with hardly any traffic (as is usually the case at that time of year, especially at midnight), I somehow got back to my home in Hackney for 4 in the morning. Two lifts and a bus.

 

[Anarita blade]

Portsmouth FA cup 3rd round about 1970/71, traveled by footx , lost 2-0.
The last 4 games against Pompy we had scored 17/18 goals let in 2ish ,the11 in red and white that day had never met before, that’s how they played .should have got 11 of the train we have put more effort in just to keep warm.

To make things worse the southern plebs stoned the train some carrageenan windows got smashed,

 

[Uncle mick]

Think it was forest at home 2018..
Sat in the bramall lane upper half way up and still covered in snow even flurrys in the bogs