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oxford united in the cup? 1999

Shrimpsscene wrote:oxford united in the cup? 1999

Easily was that realy 9 years ago

P/T Indie wrote:

Shrimpsscene wrote:oxford united in the cup? 1999

Easily was that realy 9 years ago

wet from start to finish phil............

I agree 100% away at Oxford in the cup.

I remember us getting undressed on the minibus an wringing our clothes out of the windows.
It was as if we had been stood in the shower fully dressed!

I also remember being at Barrow for a league match and the centre circle was like a swimming pool when the players came out for the second half. We were waiting for the players to put on their flippers. Some years ago in the Unibond I think, but can't remember exactly when.

talking of bad pitches brian
remember evesham a game full of incident off the pitch!!!
the avon had burst its banks too!!!

Yes, it was like playing on a beach with the amount of sand put on the pitch after the flooding!
Do you also remember the fireworks being lit on the top railway embankment?

Brian C wrote:Yes, it was like playing on a beach with the amount of sand put on the pitch after the flooding!
Do you also remember the fireworks being lit on the top railway embankment?

yes it was tony johnsons doing
didnt half jump!!!
i remember hodgie disappearing with mushy down the railway line
i think they were sneaking off to do a bit of spottting
that was a hilarious day out
didnt some of them get booted out of wetherspoons???

That Barrow away day quagmire would be Boxing Day in the Promotion winning season of 1994/95 then. We wore those bloody hideous green shirts that day as I recall.

I recall a picture of Cainy in The Visitor of the match charging through the mud and grime !!

And who of course remembers only last January and Bury at home in the JPT ??!!!

Thunder and lightning and the rain was lashing down that much it wasn't coming down sideways it was going upwards !!!

And the sight of Big Jim running for that stray ball in The Car Wash side and giving one finger to the North Stand who were jeering him will stay with me for ages ! ! ! !

The JPT was very wet last year. But the one that sticks in the memory is away at Accy about four years ago. No roof, raining sideways, wet through (literally) and the ref was rubbish. Then got shoehorned into a car with friends after the game to come home. Four grown men gently steaming the car up, drenched. Very very wet.

Seasider9601 wrote:And who of course remembers only last January and Bury at home in the JPT ??!!!

Thunder and lightning and the rain was lashing down that much it wasn't coming down sideways it was going upwards !!!

And the sight of Big Jim running for that stray ball in The Car Wash side and giving one finger to the North Stand who were jeering him will stay with me for ages ! ! ! !

And the match at home to Darlington that got abandoned! the main stand side of the pitch was like a swimming pool.

Northwich Victoria at home in 2000/01.

Match abandoned either just before or at half time. Think we were 1-0 up through Dave McKearney if I remember rightly.

AND ... I think it was only September ! ! ! !

Got to be Emley in the f.a.cup,never stopped raining,also accrington stanley christmas or new year about 4 years ago.

Oxford for definite! Soaked to the bone in next to no time, freezing cold on the way back until I began drying out. And we should have won, which would have been a real 'giant killing' if we had. Now, if they beat us it would be a cup upset!

the 1st darlington match we had in december when it was cancelled after 23 mins lol i can remember tht as every 1 was squashed up at the top of north stand - thts the wettest game ive been to

Accy away at few seasons ago on boxing day , think it was the season before they went up.
we lost 1-0 and played awful
no roof , no hats/umbrella's or anything! horrible day!

Darlington was the wettest
Northwich became the wettest (lakes formed before our very eyes)
The wettest I've been was at Oxford (very uncomfortable coach trip home)
I remember the cup match at Chesterfield was touch and go; it lashed it down all the way there.

Accrington away last season poured it down before the match all of us trying to stay dry in that shed type thing of a stand vat least the rain passed before kick off

Accy away a few seasons ago. All I remember was the rain and my family were in the covered stand and they were perfectly dry. I have a picture somewhere on my computer.

Funniest game I've been to was Lancaster v Wukkington on a dark October night 3 seasons ago.
Dollies keeper sent off in the 1st minute.
Tony Sullivan comes off the bench and goes between the sticks.
His first touch is to pick the ball out of the net after the penalty.
15 minutes later Sullivan hoofed at a clearance, and the ball bobbled over his foot and into the net.
Two more goals followed, making it 0-4 at half-time.
Then the floodlights went off, never to come back on again.
The Wukkie travelling faithful weren't very amused

This is the wetest not the funniest.

Morecamber wrote:This is the wetest not the funniest.

Well, mon ami, if you'd been there as a Shrimp fan doing an occasional raid across Carlisle Bridge then you might have wet yer keks

DRK Robbo was there, so at at least one Shrimp Director had a laugh.

Peed it down and I was stood on open terracing for the Exeter City versus Northampton Town Fourth Division fixture, 3rd April 1960.

Chesterfield away in the fa cup, drenched and loved it