Barnsley on Tuesday evening - Weather watch
- Thread starter Ox4Eva
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Ox4Eva
Level: John Aldridge
(141 Apps, 90 Gls)
Yes and it's a long trek for their fans
sideshowrob
Level: Callum O'Dowda
(106 Apps, 14 Gls)
- Year of First Game
- 1968
Heavy snowfall is predicted in Oxford from 8.00pm to 11.00pm. This could be fun! When was the last time we had a home game abandoned? I can't remember any.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2640729
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2640729
windmill
Level: John Aldridge
(141 Apps, 90 Gls)
Went there in the early eighties and match was postponed 2.00pm. Let them travel and say sweet FA.
makv
Level: Dave Roberts
(176 Apps, 8 Gls)
Harsh!
Does Bradford in the Checkatrade the year before last 5 mins before kick off count?
probably not the last time a home game was called off, nonetheless very very annoying was a boxingday home match a few seasons ago which was called off by the match official around 1.45pm , due a sliver of the pitch near the dugouts being apparently frozen
there had been a big build up n hype in the run in to the game, high sales of advance tickets ..... from a personal perspective, a lot of family members/ exiled U's fans were back in the motherland for that one...only to find, on a decent December afternoon, the matchday referee called it off 1.15 hr before kick off
mariokempes
Level: Chris Maguire
(79 Apps, 22 Gls)
Rushden and Diamonds
The away game a few days later was called off as well
The away game a few days later was called off as well
Apparently 10 fans coaches coming from Barnsley
The away game was a bloody nightmare. Got there at 1. Was sat in a pub three pints in and at 2pm it got called off!
Not as good as Gateshead in the cup...up there in a blizzard, arrived, wound down window to be told it had just been called off.
PQ
Level: Jamie Brooks
(53 Apps, 13 Gls)
Concretebob..1st Jan 2010? Yes very disappointing. Managed to get to the Chavenage game v Cambridge..where Yemi opened the scoring for the hosts who also had Jon Ashton in their side and Eddie Anaclet on the bench. Anthony Tonkin was playing for Cambridge (last game before coming to us?)..as was Courtney Pitt. 4-1 to the Chavs with 3406 watching.
- Year of First Game
- 1980
Woking in the conference wasn't it? Was in the bar with dad when it was called off, nothing else for it, we ordered another pitcher...
- Year of First Game
- 1980
There were 2 fog games that should have been called off that I remember at The Manor, first v Wimbledon, 83/4ish, then another against Bristol City in the early 90s. Couldn't see the halfway line in either of those games.
sideshowrob
Level: Callum O'Dowda
(106 Apps, 14 Gls)
- Year of First Game
- 1968
There have been plenty of games that have been postponed on the day (another that wasn't mention was Forest away in the FA Cup) but my question was - have we ever played a game at home that was abandoned? I have watching the U's since the late 60's but can't recall this ever happening. Away from Oxford, I remember watching us playing on a lake in Cambridge and in a snowstorm at Goodison Park but both games were concluded. I think there was a game that was abandoned at half time at Mansfield but I don't recall this ever happening in a home game.
Bury (a) having stayed there on the previous night and Eastbourne (a) - played the morning match vs their fans on both occasions unlike the fancy dans who didn't fancy it in the afternoon ?. We did have to crack the ice on the puddles on the pitch with our studs in Bury mind.........
Foley
Level: Colin Harrington
(260 Apps, 30 Gls)
Bristol Rivers away was abandoned back in the early 80's just at the start of thecsecind half due to a waterlogged pitch.
Like you I can't remember any home games abandoned.
duckyellow
Level: Mateo Corbo
(13 Apps, 8 Yellows, 1 Red)
Lincoln City home....around 1982... Abandoned at Manor...early second half due to Fog.
Foley
Level: Colin Harrington
(260 Apps, 30 Gls)
Yes good one.
I missed that game but you are right.
- Year of First Game
- 1974
That's the one I was thinking of. David's got a lot to answer for (gets coat!).
carefreeoufc
Level: Callum O'Dowda
(106 Apps, 14 Gls)
We had a Boxing Day game cancelled just before kick off a few seasons ago if I remember correctly. Feel like it was against Burton or someone like that.
What a day that was, my now ex Mrs phoned me 56 times to tell me how much of an a*****e I was, oh happy days.
Bradford at home, cloud burst at about 2 pm, someone came in the supporters club and said the game was off but we didn’t believe it, then we went outside, rivers of water of biblical proportions flowing down the London road, all that was missing was Moses.
MJB
Level: Les Phillips
(224 Apps, 15 Gls)
Think it might have been Wimbledon. Slightly ruined my Christmas Day that (sadly enough!)
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