Footy in the Fog

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Footy in the Fog

Post by Colburn_Claret » Tue Dec 29, 2020 9:39 pm

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.

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Re: Footy in the Fog

Post by superdimitri » Wed Dec 30, 2020 5:26 am

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

Post by Woodleyclaret » Wed Dec 30, 2020 7:32 am

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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Re: Footy in the Fog

Post by huw.Y.WattfromWare » Wed Dec 30, 2020 8:55 am

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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Re: Footy in the Fog

Post by evensteadiereddie » Wed Dec 30, 2020 8:57 am

Derby away. Fabulous.

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Re: Footy in the Fog

Post by Longsider » Wed Dec 30, 2020 9:17 am

evensteadiereddie wrote:
Wed Dec 30, 2020 8:57 am
Derby away. Fabulous.
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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Re: Footy in the Fog

Post by CharlieinNewMexico » Wed Dec 30, 2020 9:33 am

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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Re: Footy in the Fog

Post by Leisure » Wed Dec 30, 2020 9:33 am

Longsider wrote:
Wed Dec 30, 2020 9:17 am
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.
We want more fog, we want more fog, repeat repeat.

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Re: Footy in the Fog

Post by Steve1956 » Wed Dec 30, 2020 9:38 am

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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Post by fzr162 » Wed Dec 30, 2020 11:25 am

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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Re: Footy in the Fog

Post by StuffyClaret » Wed Dec 30, 2020 1:16 pm

Leisure wrote:
Wed Dec 30, 2020 9:33 am
We want more fog, we want more fog, repeat repeat.
I think it was actually: Who ate all the fog? Who ate all the fog? You fat ba5tard, You fat ba5tard, You ate all the fog!..... To the rather rotund gentleman in the home end with the wooden rattle :D

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Re: Footy in the Fog

Post by Martinc265 » Wed Dec 30, 2020 2:00 pm

Woodleyclaret wrote:
Wed Dec 30, 2020 7:32 am
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 .
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.

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Post by LordBob » Wed Dec 30, 2020 3:27 pm

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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Re: Footy in the Fog

Post by claretburns » Wed Dec 30, 2020 3:41 pm

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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Post by Stanbill05 » Wed Dec 30, 2020 7:56 pm

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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Re: Footy in the Fog

Post by RingoMcCartney » Wed Dec 30, 2020 8:23 pm

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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Post by RingoMcCartney » Wed Dec 30, 2020 8:24 pm

CharlieinNewMexico wrote:
Wed Dec 30, 2020 9:33 am
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”
Was there that night. Got postponed in the end didn't it?

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Re: Footy in the Fog

Post by ClaretTony » Wed Dec 30, 2020 9:49 pm

CharlieinNewMexico wrote:
Wed Dec 30, 2020 9:33 am
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”
Was 1986/87. Ashley Hoskin came down to tell us we’d scored.

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Re: Footy in the Fog

Post by huw.Y.WattfromWare » Thu Dec 31, 2020 1:00 am

RingoMcCartney wrote:
Wed Dec 30, 2020 8:23 pm
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.
I 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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Re: Footy in the Fog

Post by RingoMcCartney » Fri Jan 01, 2021 12:36 pm

huw.Y.WattfromWare wrote:
Thu Dec 31, 2020 1:00 am
I remember that as being bitterly cold but not foggy. Went on there so often them years I could be on the wrong game.
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.

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Re: Footy in the Fog

Post by IanMcL » Fri Jan 01, 2021 5:07 pm

superdimitri wrote:
Wed Dec 30, 2020 5:26 am
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.
Yes. That was a blessing, at the Withdean. Without the fog you don't see anything at all at the far end!

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Re: Footy in the Fog

Post by Culmclaret » Fri Jan 01, 2021 6:15 pm

Torquay (A) Feb 86. Couldn’t see much at all which was just as well

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