What was your coldest United match that you have been to

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Derby away about 15 years ago...I've never ever felt anything like it. Was near the front row as well and it was windy and horrendous. Bitterly cold still thawing out.
 

1993 or 94, I played junior Sunday league. One of my mates also played on a Saturday and invited me to play for their team up at Tapton school. It was already snowing when I got picked up but for some reason I left the house in football kit and a thin training top. His dad drove us to Tapton, by which point it was a blizzard. As the new guy I was sub so had to stand there for nearly the whole match. Came on for the last 5 mins but was so cold and mentally shot by that point I was useless.

I was 13 or 14 and have never been so cold in my life. I nearly openly cried in front of future team mates, which at that age is a no no. 30 years on and it still haunts me.
 
Nah den said:
1993 or 94, I played junior Sunday league. One of my mates also played on a Saturday and invited me to play for their team up at Tapton school. It was already snowing when I got picked up but for some reason I left the house in football kit and a thin training top. His dad drove us to Tapton, by which point it was a blizzard. As the new guy I was sub so had to stand there for nearly the whole match. Came on for the last 5 mins but was so cold and mentally shot by that point I was useless.

I was 13 or 14 and have never been so cold in my life. I nearly openly cried in front of future team mates, which at that age is a no no. 30 years on and it still haunts me.
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Appreciate this isn't a watching Utd story, so off topic🤦‍♂️
 
Going to be -4 during match, if we are losing at half time think I will be on my home. We must be mad
 
Derby Away in 2004 as already mentioned. 6 hours from London there, 4 hours back. It was freezing and we were crap. Lost 2-0.

Another really cold one not mentioned was Oldham at home in 1985, I think it was the re-arranged bomb find game. It was minus 15 that night. We won 2-0, Edwards and an own goal.
 
SE1Blade said:
Derby Away in 2004 as already mentioned. 6 hours from London there, 4 hours back. It was freezing and we were crap. Lost 2-0.

Another really cold one not mentioned was Oldham at home in 1985, I think it was the re-arranged bomb find game. It was minus 15 that night. We won 2-0, Edwards and an own goal.
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The pitch was frozen solid for the Oldham game. A number of the players wore trainers instead of boots as the ground was so hard.
 

Nah den said:
1993 or 94, I played junior Sunday league. One of my mates also played on a Saturday and invited me to play for their team up at Tapton school. It was already snowing when I got picked up but for some reason I left the house in football kit and a thin training top. His dad drove us to Tapton, by which point it was a blizzard. As the new guy I was sub so had to stand there for nearly the whole match. Came on for the last 5 mins but was so cold and mentally shot by that point I was useless.

I was 13 or 14 and have never been so cold in my life. I nearly openly cried in front of future team mates, which at that age is a no no. 30 years on and it still haunts me.
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I remember running out of the changing rooms up at Stocks bridge on a Sunday morning away game. It was horizontal hail. Everyone just turned round and sprinted back inside.

I remember a lad going off the pitch in tears because it was so cold. No idea of the score or anything but I do have memories of the wind being ridiculous and causing genuine pain 😂
 
United Aren't Back. said:
1996 v Watford at home.
January.
Freezing.
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I was at that match. They're was a tubby young Watford fan without a top on, fat bare belly. A copper went up to him and I assume asked him to put a top on. The Watford fans harangued the plod to delirious cheers from us all. Yep, bloody freezing that game, only high point was I was given 2 free tickets whilst queuing, so result. Won 3-0 as i recall.
 
1066blade said:
I was at that match. They're was a tubby young Watford fan without a top on, fat bare belly. A copper went up to him and I assume asked him to put a top on. The Watford fans harangued the plod to delirious cheers from us all. Yep, bloody freezing that game, only high point was I was given 2 free tickets whilst queuing, so result. Won 3-0 as i recall.
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Hertfordshire Tango!
 
Zipwire said:
Forest at home about 5 or 6 years ago with the beast from the east takes some beating.

Think there was a windchill of about -15c that day and it blew a gale too.
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I second that. I left at HT cos I was too cold! That’s a first for me
 
FinchleyBlade said:
Don't think it was promotion season? Think it was 04-05? Definitely was 0-0 though and freezing.
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It was the promotion season, Ade Akinbiyi got pulled back in the area sometime in the last 10 mins and stayed on his feet. Too honest for his own good.

It was also game 6 in a stretch of 8 games where we won 1, drew 3 and lost 4 - proper squeeky bum time
 
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Selly said:
It was the promotion season, Ade Akinbiyi got pulled back in the area sometime in the last 10 mins and stayed on his feet. Too honest for his own good.

It was also game 6 in a stretch of 8 games where we won 1, drew 3 and lost 4 - proper squeeky bum time
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It was the promotion season, March 2006.

I remember playing in the snow with my mate outside St Mary's Church before the match.

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To contextualise, this was the table the day before game 1 (against Watford) of that run:

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and this was it after game 8

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An 11 point lead whittled down to 4, and having played a game more. Thankfully Leeds had just entered their own slump in form, a sequence of 8 games without a win and lost the game in hand they had 3 days later at Home to Palace. Game 7 in that sequence was the 1-1 draw with Reading that confirmed our promotion.
 
That Crewe match in 06 shouldn't have been played It was the insistance of Sky TV why that match was played. I knew a groundskeeper at the Lane who told me a few hours prior to that game that it was like a 90% chance the match would be postponed. From the corner of the Kop/South Stand along that wing to just over the halfway line was partactually bad compared to the rest of the pitch apparently as it had all iced over. Crazy.
 
Judging by how some people were dressed last night, I can only assume there's some victims of frost bite/hypothermia from some attendees?
 

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