I remember games like this, long ago ...

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  1. SFOTyke

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    Wasn’t Steve Cherundolo once linked to be our manager?
     
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    He was. I was underwhelmed at the time and I will be if his name crops up in future.
     
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    Did they use an orange ball?

    I can't remember ever seeing a match in the snow (I'm 38), but I do remember the orange ball so I guess it must have been a thing.
     
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    Portsmouth at Oakwell, orange ball, jumpers for goalposts....
     
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    Housed to love a game on a snowy pitch with a coloured ball ! , both watching and playing:)
     
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    Especially on the Subbuteo field!

    Used to see them quite a bit in the 80's, although never at a match I attended. Usually they came out at Oldham, Preston, Luton or QPR as you could play there in pretty much any weather conditions. Remember Liverpool getting absolutely rogered by Luton with the orange ball in a blizzard.
     
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    I can remember Allan Ball playing manager for Blackpool ? I think taking the pee out of us in the snow with an orange ball cannot remember the year/season but we lost 2-1 I think
     
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    Seen several matches in the snow. But which ones. ?. Rochdale away definitely 1 of em. Won 3-1 (1971) I had a crazy dream afore the game and told all those I went with. Pitch would be white (although no snow till half time, quite sunny but cold beforehand) and we'd win 3-1. Spooky.
     
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    Stockport County Home. 4-1 up. Drew 4-4. On a carpet of snow. I think. Biglil will know.
     
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    Orange balls were a regular thing when it snowed (oo-er missus). They (it?) was used for our 0-3 loss against Everton (then league champions, or champions to be) in 1963 cup game. Oakwell had rolled flat snow on it, blue powder for marking the lines, and players wete often smating as it was too hard to take a stud.....
     
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    For "wete" read "were" and for "smating" read "skating". Sorry for typos, want to clarify there was no sexual activity, or smating, on the field of play.
     
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    A firm handshake was the limit I'd imagine. :)
     
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    So long as it was a hand you were shaking....
     
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    Never one to miss a trick!
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    I was at the Everton game. 3rd round. There were 30,000 there, even after Everton sent quite a lot of tickets back, because snow had caused two postponements, before we finally managed to play. Everton had a great side that season and went on to win the league. Roy Vernon and Alex Young were two of their stars. We did pretty well to hold them to 0-0 for about 70 minutes. I remember that an Everton fan took the stationmaster's hat off his head through an open window, as the train was pulling out of the station after the match.Very few matches were played over a number of weeks early in 1963, when we had the most snow in one winter in my lifetime.
     
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