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My dad used to wax lyrical about that Burnley replay, reckons the traffic that night queued back into Hebden Bridge and thousands of city fans were locked out of a 50,000+ sell out gate, which at the time was roughly the same as the population of Burnley.

 

Wimbledon?

Remember a Saturday afternoon game at Odsal against Ipswich we lost 4-3, stood on that Kop and it never stopped. Absolutely drowned when I got home.

 

Showing my age but try this.
1959/60 season, F.A.Cup 4th Round at home to Bournemouth. We had beaten star studded Everton in Round 3 on a mud bath. On the morning of the Bournemouth game it snowed heavens high. At that time I lived in Shipley but my mother and a friend had a sweet shop in Wakefield Road near Lister Ave. We kept calling the ground and eventually got the trolley bus to the match.
6" of snow rolled down, lines and goalposts in blue, kicking the ball through slush, won either 3-0 or 3-1 then went onto play Burnley, winning 2-1 on a mud bath until the Ref played 10 minutes added time and blew when they equalised we were robbed, then hammered in replay.
Later remember Wrexham at home on concrete, 6 up at HT, the Welsh scared of the pitch, those were the days, probably not.

 

Try Bingley as well.

 

There were no tickets for the replay we had to run around Turf Moor ground to find an open turnstile. That was after I had been picked up in Keighley after school.
In the Valley Parade match Irish international Jimmy McIlroy claimed his boots just stuck in the mud.

 

Everytime I see field of dreams, and the end bit where cars are queuing miles to come to his homemade baseball field, it reminds me of him telling me that tale.

 

That who I thought. The joys of football. All I remember is being a drenched rat

 

Any spare seats up there give us a shout mate 4 needed

 

Thanks to covid and I follow i havent got wet or cold at a football match in around 11 months

 

I remember one midweek game at home in the snow Don Hutchins was unstoppable, sadly can't remember who it was against or if we won

 

I can remember a game at Odsal where it absolutely tipped it down. Cheers Dad. I think I was 9. No idea who it was but it was a night game

 

Similar soakings at Stockport, Exeter, Barnsley (sure their is many more). Modern day football, in the main, has eliminated these soakings.

Thankfully.

 

I take it you’ve not sat in the lower kop regularly soaked when the heavens open

 

No Steve. Top centre. Great view and I considered the inclement British weather!!!

Was it that Walsall 4 niler that the bottom of the Kop near emptied?

 

I seem to remember a game probably in the early 90s at home when fog was so dense you could only see the ball from the Kop when it came into “our half.” Big cheer every time we saw the ball come out the fog. May have been Mansfield? Not sure.

 

Yes my wife's uncle and aunt used to tell us all about that. Police reckon a few thousand were turned back. 50,000 just imagine the atmosphere. I've been to watch City at Turf Moor in front of 7,500 and the place was buzzing.
Traditionally the Craven area and generally West of Bradford was City/Burnley catchment area. East/West Bowling and South Bradford was Avenue. Lots of old Avenue photos in the Bridge Tavern, just off Manchester Road.

 

Yes the famous Jimmy Mc comment he'd never play at Valley Parade again which he did when as manager of Oldham Athletic he made one in during a reserve game, I reminded him of his famous quote to which he just winked and smiled great player and talent.

 

A very big club in the past with some great players, long before the Leeds glory days.

 

We had a home game at Odsal on a beautiful cold day very much like today (cant remember who against) when the sun was high in that bowl it was bearable but as the sun went down over the stadium the freezing cold worked it's way from your feet to your head, luckily living local I got home pretty quickly for a thaw out.