SMorientes wrote:I can't remember a winter when this wasn't said in the lead up to it. They're never that bad, especially not compared to serious winters like they get in mainland europe when it's like -30 degrees for several months.
That's the impression I get as well.
And genuine question, did there not used to be very snowy winters in the 60s, 70s & 80s? I've seen loads of old match day pictures of snow stacked at the side of the pitch and a turf in an awful state, they can't all have been exceptional circumstances?
SMorientes wrote:I can't remember a winter when this wasn't said in the lead up to it. They're never that bad, especially not compared to serious winters like they get in mainland europe when it's like -30 degrees for several months.
That's the impression I get as well.
And genuine question, did there not used to be very snowy winters in the 60s, 70s & 80s? I've seen loads of old match day pictures of snow stacked at the side of the pitch and a turf in an awful state, they can't all have been exceptional circumstances?
Yes, winters did used to be a lot worse. 1947 and 1963 were particularly bad but most years we had quite a bit of snow. I remember playing a Yorkshire League game in 1967 on Easter Saturday. The temperature was over 70 degrees and it was like playing in mid-summer. Easter Sunday morning I got up and there was a foot of snow on the ground! In '47 and '63 there was no central heating. Upstairs, there was no heating of any kind. That was the downside, the upside was that as I didn't have a car I didn't have to worry about the tyres.
Bogdan wrote:
That's the impression I get as well.
And genuine question, did there not used to be very snowy winters in the 60s, 70s & 80s? I've seen loads of old match day pictures of snow stacked at the side of the pitch and a turf in an awful state, they can't all have been exceptional circumstances?
I think they used to have bad winters in the 60s & 70s. Back then global warming hadn't started yet and some scientists at the time were actually worried about a thing called global cooling!
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