(Don't) Blame it on the weather

[ali_iyan]

Kemaren emang sempet liat ada isu kalo emang sengaja untuk ditunda,,,tapi ga diulas kalo suhunya sampe 0,,,,,,maen dengan suhu segitu ga ngebayang deh,,,

Originally Posted by theater of dream

Lama2 kayak gini meriam the gunner bisa masuk angin dan macet.....

Plus karatan bro trus boncos dah,,

[dext3r_26]

Originally Posted by ali_iyan

Kemaren emang sempet liat ada isu kalo emang sengaja untuk ditunda,,,tapi ga diulas kalo suhunya sampe 0,,,,,,maen dengan suhu segitu ga ngebayang deh,,,

Plus karatan bro trus boncos dah,,

hehehehhehehe, s7 banget gan

[Blacklist7]

Originally Posted by Redsbusby

Wah bro indra percaya takhayul nih, posisi 2nd kemudian menjadi juara akhir musim
Tp memang orang bilang, terkadang kita butuh lebih dr sekedar mental dan hal teknis lain yg disebut, keberuntungan , bertemunya persiapan dgn peluang

Tp melihat postingan sebelum bro indra, kok saya sangsi nih, Stamford Brdige's match harus ditunda

hahahaha bukan begitu om... banyak para olahragawan dan pembalab berkata begini "lebih mudah mengejar, daripada mempertahankan pole position... hehehehe....

om Rossi, om Schumacher, om Mika Hakkinen juga bilang begitu... klo di sepak bola... OPA, om Scholes, om Keano, om Gazza, dan Om Giggs juga pernah bilang begitu... hehehehe...

klo masalah takhayul ya percaya ga percaya... tapi dilihat dari bukti tersebut memang benar adanya... motivasi ganda saat tengah musim jadi tinggal finishing touch aja... hehehehehe

[sellamanyaunited]

Originally Posted by Blacklist7

hahahaha bukan begitu om... banyak para olahragawan dan pembalab berkata begini "lebih mudah mengejar, daripada mempertahankan pole position... hehehehe....

om Rossi, om Schumacher, om Mika Hakkinen juga bilang begitu... klo di sepak bola... OPA, om Scholes, om Keano, om Gazza, dan Om Giggs juga pernah bilang begitu... hehehehe...

klo masalah takhayul ya percaya ga percaya... tapi dilihat dari bukti tersebut memang benar adanya... motivasi ganda saat tengah musim jadi tinggal finishing touch aja... hehehehehe

wah setuju om emang lebih susah mempertahankan daripada meraihnya ditambah musuh jelas lebih bervariasi dan beragam cara untuk merebutnya ya ya
makanya kata kata fergie yang sering keluar kan kata2 itu.

soal soal mitos kadang bener kadang kaga, lebih bagus sih digunain tuh kalo buat pertandingan atau hal hal penting united siapa tau berhasil

[rondwisan]

udah ada match yg di postponed lagi nih ...
moga2x ntar malem cuacanya better ...
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Postponed matches

SPL
Kilmarnock v Hearts

Championship
Middlesbrough v Nottingham Forest
Scunthorpe v Preston

League One
Bristol Rovers v Walsall
Notts County v Rochdale
Oldham v Carlisle
Peterborough v Colchester
Tranmere v Sheffield Wednesday
Yeovil v Brentford

League Two
Accrington Stanley v Crewe
Bradford v Chesterfield
Macclesfield v Morecambe
Port Vale v Lincoln
Stockport v Rotherham

Aviva Premiership
Gloucester v Northampton
Bath v Exeter

Weather watch
Arctic conditions hit Boxing Day action
Skysports - 24th December 2010



The arctic conditions gripping the country are already affecting the Boxing Day sporting calendar.

Blackpool will hold a pitch inspection at Noon on Boxing Day, three hours before their scheduled kick-off against Liverpool.

The League One meeting between Tranmere and Sheffield Wednesday at Prenton Park was the first football fixture to fall foul of the big freeze, swiftly followed by Bradford's home League Two date with Chesterfield.

And the Owls have also been forced to postpone the home game with Yeovil on 28th December and the clash with Peterborough on New Year's Day due to a number of frozen and burst pipes around Hillsborough.

Scunthorpe's Championship clash with Preston was called off on Friday morning due to a frozen pitch at Glanford Park.

Middlesbrough against Nottingham Forest then became the second Championship fixture to fall due to safety reasons.

In League One, Peterborough's match against Colchester has been postponed, as well as Bristol Rovers versus Walsall.

The encounter between Yeovil and Brentford will have to be rearranged, along with Oldham's home game against Carlisle and Notts County's match against Rochdale.

Macclesfield's clash with Morecambe has also fallen victim to the elements, along with Accrington Stanley's home date against Crewe, Stockport's match with Rotherham and Port Vale versus Lincoln.

The League Two contest between Bury and Torquay, scheduled for Tuesday 28th December, has also been scrapped.

The Scottish Premier League has confirmed the match between Kilmarnock and Hearts is off due to a combination of frozen pipes in the stands and a fault with the undersoil heating.

Other sports

The conditions are also causing issues for other sports, with racing in particular hit hard.

Both Huntingdon, who called forward an inspection originally set for Christmas Eve, and Wincanton have been forced to call off their Boxing Day meetings.

Wetherby's fixture for the same day has also been abandoned due to a frozen track, while Tuesday's meeting at Catterick and Wednesday's action at Kelso have also fallen foul of the weather.

Kempton eventually lost their Boxing Day card on Christmas Eve, though the williamhill.com Christmas Hurdle and the King George VI Chase, which will see Kauto Star bidding for an unprecedented fifth triumph, will take place on Monday instead.

Chepstow have also pushed back their Coral Welsh National meeting from Monday to Saturday, January 8. The course remains unfit for racing and there is no prospect of conditions improving sufficiently over the next few days.

The rugby union Boxing Day fixture list has also been affected, with the contest between Gloucester and Aviva Premiership leaders Northampton at Kingsholm being called off due to a frozen pitch.

Newcastle have put back their game against Leeds by 24 hours to Monday afternoon due to current pitch conditions at Kingston Park.

The pitch at the Recreation Ground has also fallen victim to the big freeze, leading to the postponement of the contest between Bath and Exeter.

In rugby league, Leeds have been forced to postpone a Boxing Day fixture for the first time since 1962. Their friendly against Wakefield has been moved to January 1, with a 3pm kick-off time.

[rondwisan]

[rondwisan]

Bbrp hari lalu sempet baca juga klo sesuai perkiraan cuaca akan ada badai yg bisa kembali mengganggu boxing day period tahun ini, tapi syukurlah cuaca akhirnya masih bisa bersahabat ....

Ini ada artikel mengenai bad weather pada tahun 60-an ...
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When the FA Cup went into cold storage... How the incredible Big Freeze of 1963 decimated the sporting programme and turned pitches into ice rinks

The notorious Big Freeze of 1963 so strangled the breath out of the FA Cup that the third round took 66 days to complete and only after a total of 261 postponements. Half of the 32 ties fell victim to the weather 10 times or more. No climatic intervention before or since has had such a dramatic effect on England's pre-eminent cup competition.

Dailymail.co.uk, Alan Fraser - 2 January 2013



Fifty years ago on Friday, heavy snow forced a referee to postpone the third round FA Cup tie between Lincoln City and Coventry City scheduled for the following day.

The match was called off a record 14 times more before eventually being played on March 6. Third Division Coventry, then managed by the one and only Jimmy Hill, won 5-1 en route to a quarter-final defeat by Manchester United.

The notorious Big Freeze of 1963 so strangled the breath out of the FA Cup that the third round took 66 days to complete and only after a total of 261 postponements.


White Out Lane: The Tottenham pitch is covered in a blanket of snow

Half of the 32 ties fell victim to the weather 10 times or more. No climatic intervention before or since has had such a dramatic effect on England’s pre-eminent cup competition.

A tar burner was employed at Stamford Bridge, by which time Tommy Docherty had flown his Chelsea side to Malta in search of a playable surface; flame throwers were tried at Blackpool; they pretty much gave up at Halifax where the club turned their pitch at The Shay into a public ice rink and charged admission.

Clubs needed income to pay the wages of players who, in turn, earned nothing by way of bonuses.

And with no games being played the football pools companies needed to find a way to attract revenue. Their solution was the advent of the Pools Panel which, after three void Saturdays, met first on January 26 and for four weekends thereafter.

The resident panel comprised Ted Drake, Tom Finney and Tommy Lawton, from Scotland George Young and former referee Arthur Ellis under various chairmen including, bizarrely, Group Captain Douglas Bader.

The Big Freeze had been preceded by what turned out to be London’s last Great Smog in December 1962 and, omen or not, a young Michael Fish joining the Met Office the previous month. The last few days of the year brought 20-foot snowdrifts in the South West and in Wales. The snow was to remain in some areas for more than two months.


Hot stuff: Chelsea using a tar burner at Stamford Bridge

January ended up being the coldest month in the 20th century with the sea freezing for a mile out from shore at Herne Bay in Kent. February produced more snow, gale force winds and, consequently, more 20-foot drifts.

All outdoor sport suffered. Rugby union and rugby league cards were wiped out on a weekly basis. There was no horseracing in England between December 23 and March 7 as a staggering 94 National Hunt meetings were cancelled.

But football was the highest* profile casualty. Bolton Wanderers did not manage a single competitive match between beating Tottenham 1-0 on December 8 and losing 3-2 at Arsenal on February 16.
Current boss Dougie Freedman would have freaked out.

‘It was crazy,’ Ronnie Farmer, an old wing-half in the 1963 Coventry side, recalled. ‘We just trained and trained and trained. We had a Hungarian fitness man. I remember we had to run up and down a snow-covered coal bing at the nearby colliery. The snow almost blinded us and gave us eyeache.’

But in Hill, Coventry boasted a chinned wonder who was building a reputation for innovation and a willingness to adopt modern techniques. Like the most determined snowplough, he was always going to find a way through the drifts.


Hell-and Road: ref Arthur Luty slides


Jack Charlton tries to drill at Leeds

‘Jimmy took us back and forward to Ireland where we played Manchester United in Dublin and then Wolves twice, first in Cork and, if I remember correctly, then in Belfast,’ Bob Wesson, the Coventry goalkeeper that year, told Sportsmail.

Hill and Stan* Cullis, the Wolves manager, were so pleased with their first jaunt to an Ireland which had escaped the worst of the blizzards — Wanderers won 3-0 on a muddy bog at Flower Lodge, home of Cork Hibs — that they arranged a return match at the since demolished Celtic Park in Belfast. The star-studded First Division side enjoyed a 6-3 victory.

But it was the game against* Manchester United at Glenmalure Park, then the home of Shamrock Rovers, which lingers in the* memory of Farmer and took on a significance for later that season. ‘An amazing crowd of 20,000 turned up,’ Farmer explained. ‘I managed a goal and we led 2-1 into the dying* minutes. But a certain Bobby Charlton slid one home to earn the Reds a 2-2 draw.’

The thaw eventually arrived but it still required a pneumatic drill to penetrate two feet of ice covering Lincoln’s Sincil Bank pitch before the FA Cup tie against Coventry went ahead at the 16th time* of asking.

The away team’s superior match fitness, acquired on the other side of the Irish Sea, proved decisive and influential in the subsequent cup run. But in a schedule that makes a mockery of modern complaints about ‘too much football’, match fitness eventually gave way to exhaustion. Rotation existed only as a geometric expression.


Worth waiting for: Arsenal beat Oxford 5-1 25 days after the scheduled date of January 5

Coventry played five FA Cup ties, including two replays against* Portsmouth, and two league games in 19 days with the last on the Monday immediately prior to the quarter-final with Manchester* United’s stars.

‘We were absolutely* knackered,’ Farmer recalled. ‘Jimmy* summoned us to the south coast for a “special training session” and told us not to forget our golf clubs.

‘We were too tired to train so we just played golf and tried to relax.’

Two goals from that man* Charlton and a third from Albert Quixall gave United a 3-1 victory, which hit goalkeeper Wesson* particularly hard.


Snow joke: Clearing up at Cheltenham racecourse

‘I sat in the corner of the changing room after the match literally* crying into a glass of champagne,’ Wesson said. ‘Our chairman Derrick Robbins put his arm round my shoulders and told me we had got further than anyone thought* we could.’

United went on to win the Cup for a third time, beating Leicester City 3-1 with two goals from David Herd and one from Denis Law.

Fifty years on, Coventry travel to Tottenham this weekend in the hope and expectation that it won’t snow this time.

[rondwisan]

Bbrp hari lalu sempet baca juga klo sesuai perkiraan cuaca akan ada badai yg bisa kembali mengganggu boxing day period tahun ini, tapi syukurlah cuaca akhirnya masih bisa bersahabat ....

Ini ada artikel mengenai bad weather pada tahun 60-an ...
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When the FA Cup went into cold storage... How the incredible Big Freeze of 1963 decimated the sporting programme and turned pitches into ice rinks

The notorious Big Freeze of 1963 so strangled the breath out of the FA Cup that the third round took 66 days to complete and only after a total of 261 postponements. Half of the 32 ties fell victim to the weather 10 times or more. No climatic intervention before or since has had such a dramatic effect on England's pre-eminent cup competition.

Dailymail.co.uk, Alan Fraser - 2 January 2013



Fifty years ago on Friday, heavy snow forced a referee to postpone the third round FA Cup tie between Lincoln City and Coventry City scheduled for the following day.

The match was called off a record 14 times more before eventually being played on March 6. Third Division Coventry, then managed by the one and only Jimmy Hill, won 5-1 en route to a quarter-final defeat by Manchester United.

The notorious Big Freeze of 1963 so strangled the breath out of the FA Cup that the third round took 66 days to complete and only after a total of 261 postponements.


White Out Lane: The Tottenham pitch is covered in a blanket of snow

Half of the 32 ties fell victim to the weather 10 times or more. No climatic intervention before or since has had such a dramatic effect on England’s pre-eminent cup competition.

A tar burner was employed at Stamford Bridge, by which time Tommy Docherty had flown his Chelsea side to Malta in search of a playable surface; flame throwers were tried at Blackpool; they pretty much gave up at Halifax where the club turned their pitch at The Shay into a public ice rink and charged admission.

Clubs needed income to pay the wages of players who, in turn, earned nothing by way of bonuses.

And with no games being played the football pools companies needed to find a way to attract revenue. Their solution was the advent of the Pools Panel which, after three void Saturdays, met first on January 26 and for four weekends thereafter.

The resident panel comprised Ted Drake, Tom Finney and Tommy Lawton, from Scotland George Young and former referee Arthur Ellis under various chairmen including, bizarrely, Group Captain Douglas Bader.

The Big Freeze had been preceded by what turned out to be London’s last Great Smog in December 1962 and, omen or not, a young Michael Fish joining the Met Office the previous month. The last few days of the year brought 20-foot snowdrifts in the South West and in Wales. The snow was to remain in some areas for more than two months.


Hot stuff: Chelsea using a tar burner at Stamford Bridge

January ended up being the coldest month in the 20th century with the sea freezing for a mile out from shore at Herne Bay in Kent. February produced more snow, gale force winds and, consequently, more 20-foot drifts.

All outdoor sport suffered. Rugby union and rugby league cards were wiped out on a weekly basis. There was no horseracing in England between December 23 and March 7 as a staggering 94 National Hunt meetings were cancelled.

But football was the highest* profile casualty. Bolton Wanderers did not manage a single competitive match between beating Tottenham 1-0 on December 8 and losing 3-2 at Arsenal on February 16.
Current boss Dougie Freedman would have freaked out.

‘It was crazy,’ Ronnie Farmer, an old wing-half in the 1963 Coventry side, recalled. ‘We just trained and trained and trained. We had a Hungarian fitness man. I remember we had to run up and down a snow-covered coal bing at the nearby colliery. The snow almost blinded us and gave us eyeache.’

But in Hill, Coventry boasted a chinned wonder who was building a reputation for innovation and a willingness to adopt modern techniques. Like the most determined snowplough, he was always going to find a way through the drifts.


Hell-and Road: ref Arthur Luty slides


Jack Charlton tries to drill at Leeds

‘Jimmy took us back and forward to Ireland where we played Manchester United in Dublin and then Wolves twice, first in Cork and, if I remember correctly, then in Belfast,’ Bob Wesson, the Coventry goalkeeper that year, told Sportsmail.

Hill and Stan* Cullis, the Wolves manager, were so pleased with their first jaunt to an Ireland which had escaped the worst of the blizzards — Wanderers won 3-0 on a muddy bog at Flower Lodge, home of Cork Hibs — that they arranged a return match at the since demolished Celtic Park in Belfast. The star-studded First Division side enjoyed a 6-3 victory.

But it was the game against* Manchester United at Glenmalure Park, then the home of Shamrock Rovers, which lingers in the* memory of Farmer and took on a significance for later that season. ‘An amazing crowd of 20,000 turned up,’ Farmer explained. ‘I managed a goal and we led 2-1 into the dying* minutes. But a certain Bobby Charlton slid one home to earn the Reds a 2-2 draw.’

The thaw eventually arrived but it still required a pneumatic drill to penetrate two feet of ice covering Lincoln’s Sincil Bank pitch before the FA Cup tie against Coventry went ahead at the 16th time* of asking.

The away team’s superior match fitness, acquired on the other side of the Irish Sea, proved decisive and influential in the subsequent cup run. But in a schedule that makes a mockery of modern complaints about ‘too much football’, match fitness eventually gave way to exhaustion. Rotation existed only as a geometric expression.


Worth waiting for: Arsenal beat Oxford 5-1 25 days after the scheduled date of January 5

Coventry played five FA Cup ties, including two replays against* Portsmouth, and two league games in 19 days with the last on the Monday immediately prior to the quarter-final with Manchester* United’s stars.

‘We were absolutely* knackered,’ Farmer recalled. ‘Jimmy* summoned us to the south coast for a “special training session” and told us not to forget our golf clubs.

‘We were too tired to train so we just played golf and tried to relax.’

Two goals from that man* Charlton and a third from Albert Quixall gave United a 3-1 victory, which hit goalkeeper Wesson* particularly hard.


Snow joke: Clearing up at Cheltenham racecourse

‘I sat in the corner of the changing room after the match literally* crying into a glass of champagne,’ Wesson said. ‘Our chairman Derrick Robbins put his arm round my shoulders and told me we had got further than anyone thought* we could.’

United went on to win the Cup for a third time, beating Leicester City 3-1 with two goals from David Herd and one from Denis Law.

Fifty years on, Coventry travel to Tottenham this weekend in the hope and expectation that it won’t snow this time.