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General Category => Altrincham FC First Team => Topic started by: TheCultOfIanTunnacliffe on December 12, 2021, 04:01:59 PM
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On this day 40 years ago.
Does anyone recollect anything about this nondescript 0-0 draw other than the freezing conditions?
I'm still astounded that this match ever took place:
(https://i.ibb.co/D7Vp3SY/York-City-v-Altrincham-Saturday-12th-December-1981.jpg)
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My coldest would have to have been Buxton away when we were at the (then) open end throwing snowballs at the legendary Ted Burgin who turned round to say "I don't mind a bit of fun but mind mi knees lads!"
Think it was late 60s or very early 70s.
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Coldest for me was the cup game at Wolves in January 1966,the pitch was an ice rink.
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To be honest, I was absolutely frozen the other week V Southend. Even though I wrapped up warm, the cold weather that day still got through and buggered up my immune system. I finished up with a very heavy cold afterwards, which after 9 days has only recently left me. Definitely brass monkey weather!
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Tow Law. I froze my pods off that day. 05/02/1983.
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There have been many down through the years but Tow Law in the FA Trophy is definitely the one that sticks in the memory.
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A Cheshire Senior Cup tie in (I think) 1991/92 away at General Chemicals. Only Alty game I've left early because of weather conditions, my feet were so cold and painful I just couldn't stand any longer. Regarding the York game, I remember the heating on the coach going there didn't work and the driver got lost!
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Portsmouth a couple of years ago was absolutely taters.
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Grantham away in the FA Cup was another. I remember having to stand at a slight crouch to stop my knee caps going up and down!
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Tow Law by several degrees of chilliness
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My coldest would have to have been Buxton away when we were at the (then) open end throwing snowballs at the legendary Ted Burgin who turned round to say "I don't mind a bit of fun but mind mi knees lads!"
Think it was late 60s or very early 70s.
Buxton was the town where Clive Lloyd went with his Lancs CCC team to play Derbyshire to find the ground covered in snow and said Mr Lloyd wondering why he left the Caribbean!
Every time I have been to Buxton it has rained....except the times it snowed!
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I went to the York 2nd Round game but I have to agree, Tow Law in 1983 with the snow piled around the pitch probably clinches it.
I did go to Wakefield (Emley) some years ago. rather naively, as it was quite balmy in London, I went in a T-shirt and thin zip up jacket. It was about 10C colder on arrival and I had to buy a cheap jumper off the market.
That Wakefield game was also the occasion where I had by a distance, the worst pie/food of any sort ever at a game.
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It would be the York game for me, (I think only four FA Cup matches beat the weather that day) although I didn't go to that Tow Law match in the early eighties. I did attend our game there a few years later when it was merely staged in a gale and pouring with rain but not freezing.
The coldest I have ever been at a game was probably at Buxton against Colwyn Bay when our game at Macclesfield was a late call off in the mid nineties. More or less for a joke, I phoned Buxton from a phonebox - "I assume the game is off," "No, it's still on." - so we set off over the Cat and Fiddle to Silverlands for a game which, even if it should have started, should not have finished. Mark Dempsey, I think before he joined us, played in this match, but was substituted suffering from mild hypothermia.
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To be honest, I was absolutely frozen the other week V Southend. Even though I wrapped up warm, the cold weather that day still got through and buggered up my immune system. I finished up with a very heavy cold afterwards, which after 9 days has only recently left me. Definitely brass monkey weather!
Likewise re. Southend, although I was coming down with Covid at the time just to compound the misery.
Previous coldest I recall was an away game at Macc in the early 90s. Bob Lord / Drinkwise Trophy or similar, sure we equalised very late on to bring about a very unwelcome period of extra time.
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Those of us who also made the trek to Ryhope CA also felt the strength of the wind off the North Sea blowing up the rows of terraced streets.
That was chilly too, even if not at the level of Tow Law
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Those of us who also made the trek to Ryhope CA also felt the strength of the wind off the North Sea blowing up the rows of terraced streets.
That was chilly too, even if not at the level of Tow Law
I went to Ryhope and yeah that was bitter bitterly cold.
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I didn't make it to Tow Law Town, but I certainly recall the York game. I only had a t-shirt on (above the waist that day) and was subjected to a lengthy conversation with Yorkshire constabulary about whether i was under the influence of drugs (I wasn't) or alcohol (possibly).
I didn't find Ryhope that cold, but I am surprised no-one has mentioned our first visit to Cammell Laird which was a bit chilly
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I didn't make it to Tow Law Town, but I certainly recall the York game. I only had a t-shirt on (above the waist that day) and was subjected to a lengthy conversation with Yorkshire constabulary about whether i was under the influence of drugs (I wasn't) or alcohol (possibly).
I didn't find Ryhope that cold, but I am surprised no-one has mentioned our first visit to Cammell Laird which was a bit chilly
Always suspected you were raised by polar bears Bill ;D
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Blyth in the FA Cup on a bitterly cold January day a few years back. We travelled up to ML from Shrewsbury and got on the fans coach. Bloody freezing afternoon.
Closely followed by Southend a couple of weeks ago. I was still shivering and I was in Bowdon before I started to warm up
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Remember a game at Morecambe's old ground some years ago (may have been a cup game?) with a bitterly cold wind blowing in sleet in from the north. Honestly thought I was almost hypothermic and have never been more relieved to hear the full-time whistle even though (from my abysmal memory) I think we lost.
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Witton away CSC in the 90's as it went close to extra time and we didn't care who scored, just desperate to get in the car for heat.
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Leek away in the cup I think. It was about 25-30 years ago and I think we won but it was so cold I can't really remember.
My dad's car froze and we had to wait for ages to get away.
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Blyth in the FA Cup on a bitterly cold January day a few years back. We travelled up to ML from Shrewsbury and got on the fans coach. Bloody freezing afternoon.
Closely followed by Southend a couple of weeks ago. I was still shivering and I was in Bowdon before I started to warm up
I might have to rethink this, I went to a game at Blyth, the year escapes me, there was about 5" of snow in Newcastle but nothing on the coast but was it cold! In fact I remember the Alty fans behind the goal singing "It's Very Cold....Very Very Very Cold......"
I didn't think Ryhope was all that bad but the girl I took along seemed to think it was, she whinged non-stop for two hours. Never pleased are they?
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Blyth in the FA Cup on a bitterly cold January day a few years back. We travelled up to ML from Shrewsbury and got on the fans coach. Bloody freezing afternoon.
Closely followed by Southend a couple of weeks ago. I was still shivering and I was in Bowdon before I started to warm up
I might have to rethink this, I went to a game at Blyth, the year escapes me, there was about 5" of snow in Newcastle but nothing on the coast but was it cold! In fact I remember the Alty fans behind the goal singing "It's Very Cold....Very Very Very Cold......"
I didn't think Ryhope was all that bad but the girl I took along seemed to think it was, she whinged non-stop for two hours. Never pleased are they?
Oh, yes, I remember an Easter Monday game at Blyth when the conditions were so bad travelling back that I thought it was worth calling my mother to say I had got back okay, This may well have been 1998 when we drew 3-3?
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Not at the match but on the special train back from White Hart Lane in January 1979. There was no heating and it was such a slow journey back.
Brrrrr.....
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Not at the match but on the special train back from White Hart Lane in January 1979. There was no heating and it was such a slow journey back.
Brrrrr.....
Ah yes, but did we care ? I got home from the station in about 25 minutes, and it felt as if I were floating above the snow. Happy days !
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Hottest?
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Leek away in the cup I think. It was about 25-30 years ago and I think we won but it was so cold I can't really remember.
My dad's car froze and we had to wait for ages to get away.
I suspect that you are referring to our FA Trophy First Round tie at Leek Town on Saturday, 12th January 1991.
Alty won 4-0 with one of the goals being scored by Harry Wiggins, whereupon he promptly lost one of his contact lenses in the celebrations and then had to leave the pitch temporarily in order to locate a replacement.
Indeed, a chilly afternoon and a game at which I recall there being a bizarrely disproportionate police presence.
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Mossley in the Integro Cup 2017/18. Chilled to the bone. There were audible sighs when it went to extra time. And penalties.
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Re the 1991 Leek fixture there were reports that certain (Un named) players stole the clothes of the late Les Atwood whilst he was in the shower and stowed them on the Coach.
Had it not been for the consideration on Martin "Bambi" Baker, returning them he would have been forced to streak across the Car Park to regain his modesty
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I remember Newcastle Blue Star in the FA Cup as bitterly cold, too.
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I remember Newcastle Blue Star in the FA Cup as bitterly cold, too.
That was mega chedder bobs
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One afternoon at Gravesend and Northfleet comes to mind 10/15 years ago.
I also found Southend the other week freezing. Maybe sitting down didn't help.
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i remember a home game in 1978 where the rain was horizontal ,I had a fur hat on and a large coat,got a good soaking as i was the only one stood behind the goal in the chequers end.As for coldest it must have been either the Fa cup game at home to Wrexham in about 1964 or the away FA cup game at Grantham,both games lots of snow about.Wolves did not seem as bad,i remember both sets of supporters throwing snowballs at each other.
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Wrexham just before my time but I think I mentioned the foot and mouth diversions on the coach to Grantham before and, of course, the knee caps jittering once eventually there (missing kick off) above.
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Whitby Town away circa 1999. Didn't warm up properly until Monday...
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Blyth in the FA Cup on a bitterly cold January day a few years back. We travelled up to ML from Shrewsbury and got on the fans coach. Bloody freezing afternoon.
Closely followed by Southend a couple of weeks ago. I was still shivering and I was in Bowdon before I started to warm up
Yep, Blyth and also Chorley maybe three years back were both grim days for more reasons than simply the identical 1-4 reverses.
Didn't get there early enough to get in that small grandstand at Chorley, so I stood on the sideline getting battered sideways by stinging cold rain - was already on my way back down the ground towards the exit when the 4th went in.
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South Liverpool, 28/12/68 at Holly Park in the NPL. It was the only game of any status taking place within 40 miles, and was packed out - which was good because the warmth of the crowd compensated for it being sub-freezing temperature. The pitch was absolutely shocking, and the 0-0 draw was totally predictable !
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I'm surprised that no one else has already mentioned this one, but I thought that the FA Trophy game at Farsley a few years ago was the coldest I could remember for some time. I sat down in their tiny stand and my knees were knocking and my teeth were chattering until a kind lady arrived and sat in the seat next to me. She had two heavy wool blankets and a large flask of Yorkshire tea and shared the same with me. It was also the location of one of the most bizarre refereeing performances I have ever seen.
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I'm surprised that no one else has already mentioned this one, but I thought that the FA Trophy game at Farsley a few years ago was the coldest I could remember for some time. I sat down in their tiny stand and my knees were knocking and my teeth were chattering until a kind lady arrived and sat in the seat next to me. She had two heavy wool blankets and a large flask of Yorkshire tea and shared the same with me. It was also the location of one of the most bizarre refereeing performances I have ever seen.
I'd forgotten that one ! The conditions were almost as appalling as the referee.....
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General Chemicals was by far the coldest ive ever been pitch was frozen solid wide open to the elements, slap bang in the middle of that massive chemical complex near Chester absolutely brass monkeys that night.
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Whitby Town away circa 1999. Didn't warm up properly until Monday...
Was that the game where someone was despatched to get Leroy Chambers a pair of tights?