The official Wigan are shit thread

[Escobarp]

25 minutes ago, Mounts Kipper said:

Nothing compares to the one over Christmas at Roker park on that open end, nearly died that day. 😂

Was that around 93/94? Boxing Day?

[leigh white]

4 minutes ago, masi 51 said:

Bolton v Everton new year day 1979. The day George wood broke Peter Reids leg.

We played in red at home. Snowed all night and all morning....Abandoned at half time.

Snowball fights all down Manchester Road with the Scousers

To be fair, it wasn't all that cold that afternoon, just the amount of snow what got dropped in one go.

[superjohnmcginlay]

1 hour ago, ZicoKelly said:

 

Leeds at during Christmas 95 was also freezing, whole Burndrn Terrace did a half time bounce along to Jonah Louie  to keep warm

 

Never forget that, I barfed up in the Terrace that night. 

[Dr. Feelgood]

v Spurs in a FA Cup replay Jan. 1978. It went to extra time and I was so cold I thought my feet would fall off. Won with a Gary Jones goal very late on.

31,000 on on a Tuesday night.

Don't recall ever being so cold.

 

 

[Traf]

Boxing Day 2001, 3-0 defeat to Robbie Fowler, bitterly cold.

[Biggish Dave]

That Leeds game was pre-internet, tickets for the cup tie at Bradford went on sale in the morning. I queued for a couple of hours in the morning, just about thawed out then went back for more at night

[Casino]

7 hours ago, Dr. Feelgood said:

v Spurs in a FA Cup replay Jan. 1978. It went to extra time and I was so cold I thought my feet would fall off. Won with a Gary Jones goal very late on.

31,000 on on a Tuesday night.

Don't recall ever being so cold.

 

 

Ritson free kick, I think?

[Zico]

6 hours ago, Traf said:

Boxing Day 2001, 3-0 defeat to Robbie Fowler, bitterly cold.

Still remember now i hadn't seen a centre back pairing as good as Woodgate and Ferdinand before, nothing was getting past them that day

Edited November 24, 2020 by ZicoKelly

[Mounts Kipper]

9 hours ago, Escobarp said:

Was that around 93/94? Boxing Day?

Sounds about right, think it was a draw, 0-0. 

[Burndens Bogs]

9 hours ago, ZicoKelly said:

Trust me, it was cold

Leeds at during Christmas 95 was also freezing, whole Burndrn Terrace did a half time bounce along to Jonah Louie  to keep warm

I think thats the game where Thomas Brolin ruined us. Up till lunchtime on the day of the match i’d been lay round a pool in Lanzarote enjoying 25deg, flew home in the afternoon & got to Burnden in time to “enjoy”  minus 7 deg and a 0-2 defeat..... beltin’

Edited November 24, 2020 by Burndens Bogs

[Rudy]

10 hours ago, Casino said:

That derby game we won in the last minute was chilly

And belgrade

Stelios last minute? Shocker of a game and it felt colder than Belgrade 

[Zico]

41 minutes ago, Burndens Bogs said:

I think thats the game where Thomas Brolin ruined us. Up till lunchtime on the day of the match i’d been lay round a pool in Lanzarote enjoying 25deg, flew home in the afternoon & got to Burnden in time to “enjoy”  minus 7 deg and a 0-2 defeat..... beltin’

Aye, that's the one, was on sky too, should've stayed in Lanzarote

[Burndens Bogs]

1 hour ago, ZicoKelly said:

Aye, that's the one, was on sky too, should've stayed in Lanzarote

Aye, maybe should have stayed there for the next 25 years 🌞

Edited November 24, 2020 by Burndens Bogs

[SatanGreavsie]

50 minutes ago, Burndens Bogs said:

I think thats the game where Thomas Brolin ruined us. Up till lunchtime on the day of the match i’d been lay round a pool in Lanzarote enjoying 25deg, flew home in the afternoon & got to Burnden in time to “enjoy”  minus 7 deg and a 0-2 defeat..... beltin’

Yeh I remember Brolin wore gloves that night - and he was born in a snowy part of Sweden, which told you summat about how cold it was

[MickyD]

10 hours ago, Mounts Kipper said:

Nothing compares to the one over Christmas at Roker park on that open end, nearly died that day. 😂

I drove up to that game with girlfriend (now wife) and we took a colleague’s daughter. She cried all game she was that cold. I even gave her my jumper. 
We got to around Leeds before she thawed out.

[radcliffe white]

1 hour ago, Mounts Kipper said:

Sounds about right, think it was a draw, 0-0. 

Think the 0-0 was season before at burnden, the Boxing Day at roker was 94 mixu scored 1-1

[Casino]

Fulham away

Sunday after a euro away

Maybe guimaraes?

[Spider]

11 hours ago, ZicoKelly said:

Trust me, it was cold

Leeds at during Christmas 95 was also freezing, whole Burndrn Terrace did a half time bounce along to Jonah Louie  to keep warm

Couple of weeks earlier had to endure a 0-0 extra time cup match v Norwich only to lose both on penalties and the feeling in my legs

Still can’t feel my toes after that.

I considered taking up smoking that night just to see if it would add any sort of warmth.

As an aside, one of many things I miss about Burnden is the sight of a thousand fags being sparked up along the paddock just after the ref would start the game.

Looked like hundreds of little steam trains had set off

[Dr. Feelgood]

2 hours ago, Casino said:

Ritson free kick, I think?

Ritson scored the first. I don't recall how, but happy to believe it was a free-kick.

Jones the extra-time winner.

[Mounts Kipper]

33 minutes ago, radcliffewhite1 said:

Think the 0-0 was season before at burnden, the Boxing Day at roker was 94 mixu scored 1-1

Think you are right, must of been 1-1 knew it was a draw, was absolutely baltic. 

[MickyD]

I seem to recall crouching to get lower than the wall over which the chill of the entire North Sea was funnelling.

[W.cramp]

Hartlepool around christmas was the worst I can remember,  fakin freezing and it started snowing towards the end if the game .    Think scott green scored with a cross,  or maybe they did.     Memory is shot.  

[Johnnyrotten]

13 hours ago, leigh white said:

A cold night at Burnden V Tranmere in a FA cup replay in 83, got back to the pub and stood in front of the fire for 20 mins before I thawed out and went the bar and ordered a pint.

You've really brought back a memory there.  It was absolutely freezing, I was in Lever End, great lobbed goal from Chandler, went to extra time and we then won 4-1.  That cup tie was the first time we'd ever played Tranmere in my time, I didnt envy their fans stood on the open embankment.  Coincidentally one of the coldest games at the Reebok was also v Tranmere, another cup replay, again went to E-T.  Me and a mate still "reminisce" about that game as the coldest, probably because of how late it finished, cant even remember if we won, only remember the cold. 

[Rudy]

13 hours ago, ZicoKelly said:

Trust me, it was cold

Leeds at during Christmas 95 was also freezing, whole Burndrn Terrace did a half time bounce along to Jonah Louie  to keep warm

Couple of weeks earlier had to endure a 0-0 extra time cup match v Norwich only to lose both on penalties and the feeling in my legs

I was shivering an hour after getting home, me Mam was going loopy saying my grandad had given me pneumonia 

[Dr. Feelgood]

2 hours ago, Johnnyrotten said:

... cant even remember if we won, only remember the cold. 

We didn't. They had ONE decent player, called Hulme. Scored 2. He ended up at Bury if I recall correctly.

 

It was one of the very rare times my, not especially interested in football, kids came with me.

It did nothing to alter that