Abandoned
Strange game “watched” this evening. Got to ground fifteen minutes before kick off. All fine.
Five minutes before kickoff a fog bank comes down.
Game starts and I hear the game for ten minutes but only actually saw the ball briefly twice.
Game suspended after ten minutes - formally abandoned 15 mins later. No doubt right call.
literally 100 yards from the ground completely clear with stars shining. Weird.
Think last game abandoned for me was the icy Farnborough game. That may have made second half at least ?.
Anyone “seen” a shorter game?
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My Southend supporting colleague went to Boston on Saturday (I think) only for it to be abandoned for fog after 7 mins.
Did you sing "I wouldn't want to watch that every week" for the bantz?
Notts County v Wycombe abandoned after 6 minutes in April 2001.
I watched a Godalming Town game that was abandoned due to a serious injury after about fifteen minutes.
A game against Merthyr Tydfil early on in the 89/90 season was abandoned after 16 minutes due to a biblical thunderstorm. I can remember sheltering in the bus station but the rain was pouring in there too. Sirens and alarms were going off everywhere.
Andy Kerr had put us 1-0 up but we lost the rearranged fixture 2-1. Couldn't tell you what I had for dinner yesterday though.
I once had to abandon a game 5 mins before it started. 30 mins before kick off, had a heavy hail shower that turned the pitch white. I told the groundsman to sweep the ice away from the lines as the rest would melt as we played.
However, I was standing in the tunnel and the groundman spirits over telling me to follow and I found the lines for the centre circle & penalty areas had all washed off with the ice / water!
Re-arranged for the following day.
Just after the Liverpool S/F, the cup run had left us with severe fixture congestion, so in one week we had to play Sat, Mon, Wed (Notts), Thu (re-arranged Notts), and Sat.
Happy days!
Four matches in eight days ! Wonder how much rotation we were able to do in those days. And how many points.
Don't think we had many players to rotate, that would only have been a couple of weeks after the whole Teletext striker appeal
Not as short a game, but I did once go all the way to Arbroath and only saw about 20 minutes before the game was abandoned because of strong winds. I was staying in Edinburgh and had a ticket to see Hearts play. Their game was postponed, as were a number of others in the central belt, so I decided to head north to Arbroath which took about two hours by train.
Their ground is right by the sea and the waves were quite high. The game kicked off and I felt it was playable, but the goalkeeper who was playing into the wind took no account of the conditions at all and kept launching high goalkicks which kept blowing back towards him. Eventually the referee had enough and that was that.
Those certainly were happy days. I was there for all of ‘em. So glad I was as I got to see Dave Carroll score his 99th and 100th goals for Wycombe Wanderers.
We had a home game against Macclesfield a few years back that was abandoned during the first half amidst a flurry of snow
Surprised no-one’s mentioned this one…
28 October 2008, very early in the season for snow. Remember it well.
"a few years back"
In my head, genuinely thinking about 5 or 6!! Not far off two decades ago. Deary me
This happens every day to me now.
Was teasing my partner’s daughter as she approached the age of 16 by referencing Kevin and Perry. We received a bemused response.
Kevin the teenager first appeared in November 1994. Extrapolated backwards it would be the same as someone making a cultural reference to me from 1965!
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As early as 28th October
That would never happen these days - was the season more condensed then or something? I can't work out how they didn't have room to spread the games out.
It was April and we had half a dozen games to make up.
There must have been some league postponements too? Even so, I'm sure when lower-league sides have gone deep in the FAC recently, they've not ended up playing such a ridiculous schedule. That feels incredibly old-timey!
Don’t forget about the old-timey replays.
And I feel like we used to play fewer midweek games in the winter months and more in the Spring, so some of them might have been regularly scheduled.
It was great tho. We always had a game soon.
What was the AP pitch like back then? Pre-pests, wasn't it?
That's so unfair!
Fratton Park?
I think that was my first visit to Pompey. The rain was so heavy I remember running after the home crowd outside thinking they will know the quickest route to a warm pub.
After a few yards thought 'why am I running, I can't get any wetter?'
Stayed in that pub for a couple of hours with my coat on the radiator. Still sodden by the time we left.
Yeah, barmy end to the 2000/2001 season. I remember listening to crackly commentary from Hutch of the Monday game (Bournemouth), on 1170am. It was the Cherries’ last game at the ‘old’ Dean Court before it was redeveloped and the pitch moved round. We sounded goosed and lost 2-0 but still managed to pull off enough creditable results before the season end, including relegating Bristol Rovers. Might be another fixture pile up if we go on a magic run!
That’s right. We were in a corner of the main stand because they’d already knocked down the away end.
We played 23 midweek matches that season thanks to runs in three different cup competitions (4 league cup matches, 3 (I think) in the EFL trophy and 10 in the FA Cup). Any schedule is going to struggle with that, particularly since we were losing matches from our league schedule well into April - we would have had 5 league postponements just because of the FA Cup run.