Watford Fc 1-2 Wolverhampton Wanderers - 27/04/2019

Coldest game I went to wasn’t even for watford. Joined my mate for a Newcastle away game against Scunthorpe.

 

What about the hottest game you’ve been to? I remember opening days at Bournemouth and Portsmouth in ‘96 and ‘98 were both really hot, but probably both beaten by the fierce conditions last summer in the friendly v Sampdoria. Those in the Sir EJ stand were allowed the sanctuary of shade in the Rookery.

 

That Portsmouth game I drove to in a car with knackered window winders. Could only open one window partially, and car didnt have aircon.

 

Wuss

 

Anyone recall the mildest game they went to.

Mine is home to QPR March 2006. The weather was so extremely mild that it took me more than an hour to decide whether to weather a light fleece or just my Watford top.

 

Masina did some great stuff, but he showed his weakness with a couple or cavalier slide tackles which were beaten and left him out of the game.

If Holebas made those tackles he'd either get the ball, or booked for a foul, or both.

 

Coldest was Torquay in the cup. 90 minutes goalless from memory and most of us were jogging up and down the sparsely populated Vic Rd end to keep warm.

extra time was met with boos, but Gifton scored almost immediately after the restart, however even that wasn't to shorten our misery as we then let them equalise, forcing penalties.

Warmest was palace at Wembley in play off final. I remember my legs burning as we watched Cassetti lunge in on Wilf.

 

Don't think it went to penalties......

Match type: FA Cup (2nd Round Replay)
Location: Home (Vicarage Road)
Season: 1997/98Res: 2-1 Win
Manager: Graham Taylor Att: 5,848

• (GK) Alec Chamberlain
• Nigel Gibbs
• Micah Hyde
• Richard Johnson
• Peter Kennedy
• Jason Lee
• Keith Millen
• Tommy Mooney
• Gifton Noel-Williams
• Robert Page
• Steve Palmer
  • Sub: Paul Robinson
  • Sub: Tommy Smith

 

I must have imagined it in a haze of hypothermia

 

If I recall correctly, the Torquay game led to the SoccerAm team naming the fans seats on the show as 'The Luther Blissett Stand'.

I remember Helen Chamberlain telling the story - her, Tim Lovejoy and Fenners went to the Vic and she phoned Luther and he got them in free, so as a thank you they named the seats after him.

 

If he'd made me watch that game I'd have gone and studied medicine for 12 years, discovered a syndrome and named that after him.

 

Wettest I've ever been at a game was a 0-0 at home to Portsmouth in the season where Guy Whittingham scored 40+ goals for them. Was on the Family Terrace and it poured down for two hours solid and turned the programme in my pocket into a big lump of papier mache.

I don't think there was a single shot from either side, certainly none that bothered a goalkeeper.

 

If we are going for the wettest game ever attended then Brighton away at the old Goldstone ground sometime in the late 80's maybe early 90's. Poured down all game. It was so bad I have no idea of the score.

 

It always seemed to rain at Swindon.

 

Not quite the coldest game I've been to, but certainly the leading combination of cold and miserable, was the evening game at home to Barnsley in April 2008. The wheels were falling off our bid to return to the Prem under Aidy, near zero, damp, and 3-0 down by the 54th minute. To Barnsley!

Literally the only Watford game I've ever left early.

 

Think we had the same experience at Torquay as I posted something similar higher up!

As for warmest, a few of us said Fulham for the coldest on Boxing Day but Fulham on the last day of the season to win the old division 2 was also balmy if I remember correctly. Uncovered away end with the sun beating down, supping a few cans we'd smuggled in and invading the pitch at the final whistle! Those were the good days!

 

We will play wolves at 3 different grounds too

 

As for today, I reckon Wolves would be happy with a point. Wouldn't be surprised to see them time wasting from the get-go.

 

I had more vivid recall of the home replay, but I think I was at the away game too. IIRC there was a buzz of excitement that we were being linked with signing Tomas Brolin

 

Taking this back to a Wolf-centric theme.

Anyone remember the home game against Wolfs in Aidy's promotion season, when Hoddle was managing them? The first half will live long in the memory for Ben Foster's display keeping it at 0-0 til half time.

For me, the number of worldies he pulled off on that day puts it down as the greatest goalkeeping display I have ever seen - no exaggeration when I say Wolfs could have been 4 or 5 up at half time - how we went on to win 3-1 I'll never know.

 

No idea what is going t0 happen in the game today, but I'm pretty sure post match twitter will be full of badly educated racist mask wearing mexicans

 

Which game was postponed due to flooding a few minutes in? Think it was Wigan during the Aidy Prem season? Anyway, that was biblical level rain IIRC

 

Yes, used to be a VERY open terrace

 

It was. Notable for the fact that Tamas ******* Priskin finally scored and then had it chalked off due to the abandoned game

 

I would like us to beat them so convincingly that city just give us the cup and the Prem Legaue give us a few extra points to put us up to 6th

However have no idea, it’s about time for a big performance, but wolves will be out for blood , if we loose we will end up 8th or 9th. If we end up 9th and loose the cup it will be a shame but still a good season.I have a horrible feeling we will end 8th on goal difference

I’ll be honest if we don’t get 7th would rather it went to wolves than Everton

 

Good omen, my train arrived into Paddington 1 minute early.

 

* lose

 

Yes and Man City!

 

If the Arctic Bears played the Antarctic Penguins I reckon that would be the coldest game - or perhaps the replay would be.

 

Like Holebas though, he has a knack of two footed lunges which Redmond hurdled in the 1st half.

 

*Yep. English has always been my weakness, in an ideal world I would communicate in binary or hex

 

Rather than a replay or penalties, wouldn’t the bears simply eat the penguins?

 

This should be Javi’s team talk.