Footy in the Fog
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Footy in the Fog
Watching the highlights from Stoke, where the fog is awful, and it brought to mind a match on the Turf in the late 70s.
Midweek night match where the far side of the pitch, and one of the goals was invisible. We were relying on the shouts from CFS to give us a clue what was happening. I think the ref called it a night in the end.
I'm sure someone out there will remind me of the opposition.
Midweek night match where the far side of the pitch, and one of the goals was invisible. We were relying on the shouts from CFS to give us a clue what was happening. I think the ref called it a night in the end.
I'm sure someone out there will remind me of the opposition.
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Re: Footy in the Fog
I remember a game at Brighton in the Withdean where it was so foggy you could barely see the pitch let alone the far goal.
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Re: Footy in the Fog
I remember a home match v Liverpool where we were hammered and I mercifully missed all the goals, as from the BeeHole end you could only see about 5 m .
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Christmas match mid-60s v Stoke. Don’t remember why but I was in the Main Stand enclosure, by the corner flag, and you couldn’t see the goal at our end. Should never have been played but we won 1-0. Obviously didn't see the goal.
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Derby away. Fabulous.
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I was in the home end right up next to our lot that might when it got cancelled. The home fans were going mental and not happy at all as Burnley fans chanted for more fog. It was a good away following from memory.
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Midweek game at Burnden, think is was the Leyland DAF Trophy in the mid 80s? we scored up the other end but we had no idea until our players ran back to us celebrating and answering questions of “who scored”
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We want more fog, we want more fog, repeat repeat.
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Never been as frightened in my life before, the journey home from Derby in the fog...front seat of coach and a driver determined to get home fast....70 mph in a pea super isn't big or clever
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I seem to remember an away game at Scunthorpe at the Old show Ground being foggy including the whole of the drive back home to Keighley.
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I remember one game , think it ended 5-1 for Liverpool. I could just about see the Liverpool keeper from standing at his goal line corner flag. You only knew someone had scored at the other end when the fellas arms went up like a chorus line all along the long side.Woodleyclaret wrote: ↑Wed Dec 30, 2020 7:32 amI remember a home match v Liverpool where we were hammered and I mercifully missed all the goals, as from the BeeHole end you could only see about 5 m .
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The Baseball ground FA cup replay a really foggy night the game eventually abandoned so we all trailed down there again on the Saturday and what a day, it wasn't about winning it was about unity and with that Orient game in our minds we were saying we are Burnley and we are on our way back. Jimmy Mullens Claret and Blue Army it made the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. UTC.
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Also with Derby but the home game, in the Coyle promotion season I think, we were 3-0 up after around 20 minutes or so, and remember the Derby fans singing "Call it off".
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It will have been done to death on here LordBob but that 30 minutes or so at Derby stamping that wooden stand with my Dad and everybody else was the most incredible time. I’ll be forever grateful for the fog that enabled it.
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Was it the Anglo Scottish Cup at Oldham? A real pea souper. Vaguely remember Steve Kindon in the full yellow away kit emerging from swirling mists going full tilt . Enough to put the fear of God into any defence.
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Was there that night. Got postponed in the end didn't it?CharlieinNewMexico wrote: ↑Wed Dec 30, 2020 9:33 amMidweek game at Burnden, think is was the Leyland DAF Trophy in the mid 80s? we scored up the other end but we had no idea until our players ran back to us celebrating and answering questions of “who scored”
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Was 1986/87. Ashley Hoskin came down to tell us we’d scored.CharlieinNewMexico wrote: ↑Wed Dec 30, 2020 9:33 amMidweek game at Burnden, think is was the Leyland DAF Trophy in the mid 80s? we scored up the other end but we had no idea until our players ran back to us celebrating and answering questions of “who scored”
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I remember that as being bitterly cold but not foggy. Went on there so often them years I could be on the wrong game.RingoMcCartney wrote: ↑Wed Dec 30, 2020 8:23 pmWas it the Anglo Scottish Cup at Oldham? A real pea souper. Vaguely remember Steve Kindon in the full yellow away kit emerging from swirling mists going full tilt . Enough to put the fear of God into any defence.
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Hey I could be wrong, on the game but it was definitely foggy. My uncle drove us over Deerplay to Bacup , then onto Oldham via Rochdale and he barely got over 30 mph due to the conditions.huw.Y.WattfromWare wrote: ↑Thu Dec 31, 2020 1:00 amI remember that as being bitterly cold but not foggy. Went on there so often them years I could be on the wrong game.
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Yes. That was a blessing, at the Withdean. Without the fog you don't see anything at all at the far end!superdimitri wrote: ↑Wed Dec 30, 2020 5:26 amI remember a game at Brighton in the Withdean where it was so foggy you could barely see the pitch let alone the far goal.
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Torquay (A) Feb 86. Couldn’t see much at all which was just as well