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dejavuatbtn

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Aug 4, 2010
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And 60 years ago….
 

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Eeyore

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Apr 5, 2014
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Should never have been played. Their second goal was scored by a lump of ice.

I was a young red scarfer on the special train. I remember sitting in the main stand with us 2-1 down and no longer caring about the match. My feet were almost frozen and I just wanted to go home.
 




Eeyore

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Apr 5, 2014
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Yes there was snow, but not overly cold.
Doubt it would make my top 5 of coldest games attended.
You must have been in with the sardines at the away end.
 




Bozza

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Jul 4, 2003
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Should never have been played. Their second goal was scored by a lump of ice.

I was a young red scarfer on the special train. I remember sitting in the main stand with us 2-1 down and no longer caring about the match. My feet were almost frozen and I just wanted to go home.
Snap. Special train direct from Brighton to Peterborough that crawled through the outer areas of London for what felt like hours.

Free red scarf for all on board.
 




Eeyore

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Apr 5, 2014
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Absolutely crushed on the terraces. Relieved at result and getting out alive.
Last time special trains were run?
There was one to Liverpool in 1991. By that time I had discovered alcohol and a Young Person's Railcard. Our scheduled train pulled up alongside the Special at one stage in the north and we waved our tinnies out the window.
 




Stat Brother

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Cheshire Cat

The most curious thing..
It was cold, but I've been colder.

Scunthorpe v somebody in 1985/86 at The Old Show Ground was BITTER
 


Deadly Danson

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Oct 22, 2003
4,006
Brighton
I was definitely there but I'm sure I was seated. Does anyone recall if there were away seats or have I imagined this completely?
 




Taybha

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Oct 8, 2008
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From memory I have no recollection of it actually snowing on the day? Obviously it must of flumped overnight but when I got in the ground I thought no way was it going to be played even if I screamed for a policeman to explain I'd not been given a silk scarf on my not that special train.
 


Nobby

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Sep 29, 2007
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Absolutely packed like sardines on the terraces. Relieved at result and getting out alive.
Last time special trains were run?
Coldest was Barnet away, boxing day 2000.you had to be there!!
Couldn’t stand upon that terrace. Sheet ice!! Is my memory failing me or was the terrace along the side of the pitch in those days?
 


Stat Brother

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We were on a coach.

I remember not only my mate opening the egg sandwiches his mum had made him.

But a local policeman getting on as we approached the ground telling us 'if anyone one has anything illegal on them you're to put it in this bin bag'.
He walked up the coach, turned and walked back down again...




...with his empty bin bag.


As said ask me what I did last Thursday and I haven't got a fudging clue'.
 


Eeyore

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Apr 5, 2014
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We were on a coach.

I remember not only my mate opening the egg sandwiches his mum had made him.

But a local policeman getting on as we approached the ground telling us 'if anyone one has anything illegal on them you're to put it in this bin bag'.
He walked up the coach, turned and walked back down again...




...with his empty bin bag.


As said ask me what I did last Thursday and I haven't got a fudging clue'.
'Hold on, I've got 1lb of cocaine here, officer. Been meaning to get rid of it'
 








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