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For me it was a game at Kenilworth Road, this time of year (possibly in 1977 not sure.) Their open concrete terracing was frigid and there was a half a gale blowing across it. My mate and and kept switching places so we could shield each other from the wind in shifts. I swear if I'd had to stand there another ten minutes I'd have gone to emergency with frostbite in my toes.
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The coldest/wettest you've ever been at a match on 09:51 - Jan 2 by AustrianHoop
I may have been at that game too... l remember a game in Nottingham when we lost heavily and I got soaked. Certainly in the eighties. I was absolutly freezing. Was it an early season game, maybe August/September?
I had to look it up, was December 1987.
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The coldest/wettest you've ever been at a match on 00:58 - Jan 3 with 1001 views
Elm Park on that concrete terracing around 97/98 ish . I think we won or drew but I can’t remember due to the bloody frostbite . All my mate Jim (rip) wanted to do was just keep drinking cold beer. Since that day I struggle to drink beer at all when I’m cold .
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The coldest/wettest you've ever been at a match on 17:23 - Jan 2 by connell10
Arsenal FA Cup replay night at Loftus Road it was biblical, but we won with Kenny Sansom scoring for us against his old team . I was in the East paddock with my dad and we got soaked , but Rangers won so we were happy.
Could have been stood next to you Connell. Was there with friend and it was brilliant night and then got home, watched on sportsnight with my dad. No phones then or Internet. He didn't know the result when watching.
The two scorers that night, how differently their lives went after...
Sinton and Sansom.
But the phrase, "the heavens opened"" comes to mind.
The coldest/wettest you've ever been at a match on 01:10 - Jan 3 by numptydumpty
Could have been stood next to you Connell. Was there with friend and it was brilliant night and then got home, watched on sportsnight with my dad. No phones then or Internet. He didn't know the result when watching.
The two scorers that night, how differently their lives went after...
Sinton and Sansom.
But the phrase, "the heavens opened"" comes to mind.
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An epic night for sure. We took a large following to Highbury for the 0-0 there before this replay.
I'd recently started seeing a girl who didn't like football. A mate I had a ticket for said he couldn't make it and I offered it to her as a joke. To my surprise she accepted and absolutely loved the experience despite getting drenched in the Loft.
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The coldest/wettest you've ever been at a match on 10:09 - Jan 2 by londonscottish
I was at that game and it was f*****g baltic. Our seats were on the edge of the crowd and we were like penguins trying to get inside the huddle to get away from the wind.
Same. Was near the front on the left and it whipped through the gap in the stands off the river. Terrible.
The coldest/wettest you've ever been at a match on 18:05 - Jan 2 by loftboy
I bought a coffee at half time and it slipped through my hand as I couldn’t grip!
I had a pie which was cooked to around 1000 degrees celcius & burnt my mouth . If memory serves me it was only -4/-5 degrees that day but the wind probably added another -10 c to that .
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The coldest/wettest you've ever been at a match on 19:42 - Jan 2 by Norfolk43
Another for this one too, me and an ex girlfriend were on that terrace and it was literally the coldest I’ve ever been, stood in a group of about 20 we cheered an 86th minute corner as though we’d just won the league, just to try and get warm. How the hell I managed to drive back home to Norfolk with frost bite I’ll never know.
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I came from Norfolk too that day , think i got a train from Bury st edmunds & met some R's on there from Felixstowe/Ipswich who i still see from time to time at Rangers.
burnley at home approx 82, trevor steven played a blinder for them 2-0 down, soaked in west paddock and we drew 2-2 another was blackpool ten yrs back, 3-0 win my parka weighed a ton with the sodden rain in that open gene kelly stand cos you always sing in the rain!
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The coldest/wettest you've ever been at a match on 20:20 - Jan 2 by dandaqpr
I went to that game against Birmingham City on NYD 1980 and I can confirm it was the coldest match I have ever been to. So cold , I remember that I couldn’t clap, it was too painful. Another odd thing I remember about that game is that there were two Wolverhampton Wanderers fans in our section supporting us because they hated Birmingham City so much.
The wettest was more recent, away to Blackpool two seasons ago, just before most fans got Ito the ground, it was biblical, and everyone came in drenched 😂
Another vote for this one,I was also severely hungover,as was my girlfriend at the time,who spent most of the coach journey throwing up into a carrier bag..
Non QPR game was at Slough Town,an evening game ,the 2nd half was played in freezing fog,I then had a 30 minute cycle home,to a cold flat with poxy heating that took hours to get even warm,I went to bed wearing my coat and boots…
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The coldest/wettest you've ever been at a match on 08:45 - Jan 3 by losethedrum
I had a pie which was cooked to around 1000 degrees celcius & burnt my mouth . If memory serves me it was only -4/-5 degrees that day but the wind probably added another -10 c to that .
It was the wind whipping the water off the Trent that was the problem if I remember correctly.
favourite cheese mature Cheddar. FFS there is no such thing as the EPL
The coldest/wettest you've ever been at a match on 09:41 - Jan 2 by SydneyRs
For me coldest was Forest away in the 80s. The game also featured a 4 minute Nigel Clough hat trick and a disallowed QPR goal in a 4-0 defeat. Also travelled there and back to London with a Forest mate. I've had better days.
I was at that game. When we 'equalised' I jumped up and down like a lunatic and all my change fell out of my pockets. All the surrounding Rangers fans gleefully picked it up. I hope it froze to your frostbitten fingers you bstards! Wasn't it a ridiculous early Sunday kick off too?
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The coldest/wettest you've ever been at a match on 23:14 - Jan 2 by EN_Ranger
Me too, it was horrific on and off the pitch
Don’t know why, but I love this thread!
Rekyvik away wore every item of clothing I packed for the three days still froze my tits off The Oldham game as mentioned by others , think we Hiscock in the lovleyroilets provided to us u til just befor koto keep out of the cold . Reading awayfew season ago sky game just for a change ,everyone was advised to stay at home due to the weather obv ewe ignore that advice , Parked the car in the hotel about §5 mins walk from the ground , was like frosty the snow man time we got to the ground .
Wettest not sure on the year but Swansea home game , was in the paddock , drinking a cuppa at half time and heard this roar of noise as the hail hit the school end the biggest hail storm I’ve ever seen hit us , soaked us within seconds the. The hail started to hurt as. It hit us hard .
The coldest/wettest you've ever been at a match on 22:36 - Jan 3 by wombat
Rekyvik away wore every item of clothing I packed for the three days still froze my tits off The Oldham game as mentioned by others , think we Hiscock in the lovleyroilets provided to us u til just befor koto keep out of the cold . Reading awayfew season ago sky game just for a change ,everyone was advised to stay at home due to the weather obv ewe ignore that advice , Parked the car in the hotel about §5 mins walk from the ground , was like frosty the snow man time we got to the ground .
Wettest not sure on the year but Swansea home game , was in the paddock , drinking a cuppa at half time and heard this roar of noise as the hail hit the school end the biggest hail storm I’ve ever seen hit us , soaked us within seconds the. The hail started to hurt as. It hit us hard .
Good friday 10th april 1998 away to Sunderland. 2 2 draw after being 2 down at half time. It was absolutely freezing I remember when the coaches turned up and rs fans got off in t shirts ( think they thought stadium of light was Portugal) Ws had been up there for a week at my wifes folks Northumberland cottage so new it was gonna be cold but j have never before or since been that cold. We met some rs fans who were staying in a caravan in Wooler who said it was warmer outside than in. After the game we sat in the car for 30 minutes with the heaters on full to get some life back in the feet and hands. We drewx22 having been 2 down Mije sharon hot a 2nd half brace. Vinny Jones and Razor Ruddock in thd back 4 . I think it was that point that kept us up and Sunderland were promoted.
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The wettest and most miserable I have ever been at a football match wasn't with QPR, it was Belgium v Ireland in November 1997, at a play off match for WC qualification. My bruv flew in from Kerry and we hopped on the Eurostar and over a few beers pondered the dark warnings that everyone had issued about the perils of Belgian beer, warnings which we royally ignored. Later that night and now in the company of various members of Air Force Two (taking Madeleine Albright somewhere and recovering pieces of the space shuttle that had fallen off) and a Swedish female volleyball team we were actually asked to leave a karaoke bar. We were monumentally mullered. The morning after was horrific. I have never felt as bad, nor since. Catastrophically hungover, we eventually emerged into the hotel reception where the staff were still laughing at the cctv of our attempts to use the new fangled keyless entry things they'd just had installed. We decided that the only way to get through the rest of the day was to carry on drinking. This was a really poor decision and we ended up walking towards where we though Heysel was. The heavens opened, unending sheets of rain. By the time we got to the ground (where we stood on an open terrace) we were both wet through. It absolutely hammered down througout the match. And then David Bloody Connelly got sent off and then we lost. Awful.
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The coldest I've been is at Boundary Park, Oldham. It's the second highest ground in the country, a fact I discovered the hard way. I went there twice, first for the play-off semi-final first leg in 2003, and a second time for the away league fixture in March 2004. Having frozen through in 2003, I went prepared in 2004 wearing multiple layers. It made little to no difference. By the second half, I was block of ice.
The wettest I've been is at the County Ground, Swindon in 2003. The away end had no roof so there was no escaping the weather. Despite going ahead, QPR eventually lost 3-1. It was 1-1 midway through the second half when I decided to warm myself up by buying a burger and coffee from the kiosk at the side of the away end. As I settled back into my seat, self-confessed QPR fan Sam Parkin made it 2-1 to Swindon. In my frustration, I inadvertently kicked my cup of coffee over. 4 minutes later it was 3-1 and game over. To add to my despair I looked down to see that the patty had slipped out of my burger! If memory serves me well I believe that this was the game that convinced Ian Holloway to later bring Eric Sabin to Loftus Road, despite Parkin being far more prolific and a QPR fan to boot.
Looking back it appears that 2003 and 2004 wasn't a good year for me weather wise but, boy, the football more then made up for it.
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The coldest/wettest you've ever been at a match on 13:38 - Jan 2 by OldhamR
Not the coldest weather but the coldest I've ever been at a game, Norwich away end of 81 season. Stood in the freezing North Sea wind wearing a Hawaiian shirt and grass skirt, seemed funny in the pub but nearly froze.
Do I remember correctly a game during the plastic pitch era when we were the only game on in London due to a decent amount of snow and they bought some prisoners from the Scrubs to clear our pitch?
The only London game: that was against Spurs . Bannister scored . I think Falco was playing for them. It was either a draw or we just edged it, I think the former. 1980s
There was an evening game in freezing weather at Loftus Road in the 80s when the lights failed and I think was abandoned - not sure. Freezing in the Ellerslie Road stand. .
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The coldest/wettest you've ever been at a match on 09:16 - Jan 5 by hopekillsyou
The only London game: that was against Spurs . Bannister scored . I think Falco was playing for them. It was either a draw or we just edged it, I think the former. 1980s
There was an evening game in freezing weather at Loftus Road in the 80s when the lights failed and I think was abandoned - not sure. Freezing in the Ellerslie Road stand. .
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The abandoned game was I think the league cup, v Forest I think?
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The coldest/wettest you've ever been at a match on 00:25 - Jan 6 by SydneyRs
The abandoned game was I think the league cup, v Forest I think?
I found Tony Incenzos blog on the abandoned Forest Milk Cup game game in November 85: coldest November night in London for 17 years….Yup, I recall my frozen feet, as I stamped to keep warm. https://www.888sport.com/blog/floodlight-failure-at-qpr-1985.
… and here is the link for the Jan 85 game ( “ the only game in London” - everything else snowed off) :
Jim Smiths side. I really liked that team. ( There was also a Boxing Day fixture v Spurs in 1978 which also ended 2-2).
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