A Horse With No Name Posted February 3, 2022 Report Share Posted February 3, 2022 I know its over a week away, but the Bristol Post reporting news from the Met Office of a snow bomb travelling over South Wales and West Country, starting Saturday 12th. Our game is on the Sunday so has to be in .some doubt. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pillred Posted February 3, 2022 Report Share Posted February 3, 2022 (edited) BBC currently showing 9 degrees and sunny for us on the 13th. doubt Swansea will be much different. Edited February 3, 2022 by pillred Punctuation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernard Lerring Posted February 3, 2022 Report Share Posted February 3, 2022 If the Bristol Post is predicting snow I'd imagine you won't even end up needing your big coat on. They love using the weather for clickbait 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ooRya Posted February 3, 2022 Report Share Posted February 3, 2022 Total clickbait. They are as bad as the Daily Express! 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid in the Riot Posted February 3, 2022 Report Share Posted February 3, 2022 They can't accurately predict the weather for tomorrow, let alone 9 days time. 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Simpson Posted February 3, 2022 Report Share Posted February 3, 2022 4 minutes ago, Kid in the Riot said: They can't accurately predict the weather for tomorrow, let alone 9 days time. They struggle with yesterdays news as well. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pillred Posted February 3, 2022 Report Share Posted February 3, 2022 3 minutes ago, ooRya said: Total clickbait. They are as bad as the Daily Express! They have been predicting an Arctic blizzard to hit the country since October, it was going to be a freeze hitting us last week as well, I suppose eventually they will get it right it's laughable how wrong they have been this year. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pongo88 Posted February 3, 2022 Report Share Posted February 3, 2022 I miss the days when matches were played on frozen pitches. It reduced the quality of the football played but, somehow, increased the entertainment value. I remember watching City play Spurs on a frozen pitch when Gerry Gow spent the entire match trying to kick Ossie Ardiles. He failed miserably as Ossie could keep his balance on the ice and Gerry couldn’t Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazred Posted February 3, 2022 Report Share Posted February 3, 2022 (edited) BBQ summers and snow warnings are an annual seasonal headline of theirs. What's a snow bomb anyway? Do they mean snow, falling from the sky, from a cloud, when it's cold, as nature intended? Edited February 3, 2022 by Gazred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sleepy1968 Posted February 3, 2022 Report Share Posted February 3, 2022 9 minutes ago, Gazred said: Do they mean snow, falling from the sky, from a cloud, when it's cold, as nature intended? Something that won't be featuring in this year's winter olympics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Posted February 3, 2022 Report Share Posted February 3, 2022 Get the orange ball out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slippin cider Posted February 3, 2022 Report Share Posted February 3, 2022 New York and the east coast of the states have just had a lot of snow and ice . 60cm plus . Wouldn’t surprise me if this made its way across the Atlantic but a way off yet and a lot can change . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loco Rojo Posted February 3, 2022 Report Share Posted February 3, 2022 (edited) 'Snow bomb' dicks. Hate it when media use over reaction headlines like this. Ooooh let's all be like America news. 'Snow bomb cripples UK' you can see it already. Edited February 3, 2022 by Loco Rojo 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeh Posted February 3, 2022 Report Share Posted February 3, 2022 42 minutes ago, The Horse With No Name said: I know its over a week away, but the Bristol Post reporting news from the Met Office of a snow bomb travelling over South Wales and West Country, starting Saturday 12th. Our game is on the Sunday so has to be in .some doubt. They report this every year about 15 times, We end up with drizzle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin phantom Posted February 3, 2022 Admin Report Share Posted February 3, 2022 I know we used to get all the posts about downpours and would the pitch cope etc, but blimey we have hit a new level now The post have been pushing this story since November and yet to see anything Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red-Robbo Posted February 3, 2022 Report Share Posted February 3, 2022 WX Charts is the public access forecast of Met Desk Ltd. Three blokes based in this exciting office, next to Wendover station in Hampshire. If the Meteorological Office forecast snow I'd take it seriously. If these clickbait jokers do, I'd not worry about buying a new snow shovel. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red-Robbo Posted February 3, 2022 Report Share Posted February 3, 2022 And anyway, what's the problem with a bit of coldness.... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/60240754 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laner Posted February 3, 2022 Report Share Posted February 3, 2022 54 minutes ago, Gazred said: BBQ summers and snow warnings are an annual seasonal headline of theirs. As are the "it's hotter / colder than (somewhere)" headlines from the tabloids. Complete nonsense. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Port Said Red Posted February 3, 2022 Report Share Posted February 3, 2022 1 hour ago, pongo88 said: I miss the days when matches were played on frozen pitches. It reduced the quality of the football played but, somehow, increased the entertainment value. I remember watching City play Spurs on a frozen pitch when Gerry Gow spent the entire match trying to kick Ossie Ardiles. He failed miserably as Ossie could keep his balance on the ice and Gerry couldn’t I remember that. Ricardo Villa was walking everywhere like he was on his tiptoes and every time anyone got near him he just gave them a nudge and they fell over. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pongo88 Posted February 3, 2022 Report Share Posted February 3, 2022 4 minutes ago, Port Said Red said: I remember that. Ricardo Villa was walking everywhere like he was on his tiptoes and every time anyone got near him he just gave them a nudge and they fell over. I may have got it wrong. Perhaps Gow spent the match chasing after Villa and not Ardiles. Anyone else remember the match? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilC Posted February 3, 2022 Report Share Posted February 3, 2022 Their latest clickbait seems to be Highway code nonsense. What the #### is that about? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Posted February 3, 2022 Report Share Posted February 3, 2022 Saw the title and thought it might’ve been predicting a repeat of that excellent day away at Stoke when we had a snowball fight outside the ground with the naughty forty! 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Horse With No Name Posted February 3, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2022 16 minutes ago, Harry said: Saw the title and thought it might’ve been predicting a repeat of that excellent day away at Stoke when we had a snowball fight outside the ground with the naughty forty! Or the game at WBA when we were about the only game in the country still on . City wore revolutionary new dimpled boots designed for Arctic conditions. We slid to a 4-0 defeat . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southside Posted February 3, 2022 Report Share Posted February 3, 2022 51 minutes ago, Laner said: As are the "it's hotter / colder than (somewhere)" headlines from the tabloids. Complete nonsense. Apparently Bristol is warmer than somewhere else with a lower current temperature 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gimme Shelton Posted February 3, 2022 Report Share Posted February 3, 2022 I wonder how on earth we managed before a bit of rainy and windy weather had to be called by a silly name 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pongo88 Posted February 3, 2022 Report Share Posted February 3, 2022 48 minutes ago, Gimme Shelton said: I wonder how on earth we managed before a bit of rainy and windy weather had to be called by a silly name We used to just just have snow. Sometimes heavy snow storms, but now we have Snowmageddon! I’m glad it wasn’t called that when I was young Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
handsofclay Posted February 3, 2022 Report Share Posted February 3, 2022 5 hours ago, Port Said Red said: I remember that. Ricardo Villa was walking everywhere like he was on his tiptoes and every time anyone got near him he just gave them a nudge and they fell over. 5 hours ago, pongo88 said: I may have got it wrong. Perhaps Gow spent the match chasing after Villa and not Ardiles. Anyone else remember the match? Ricardo Villa was pretty well the man of the match, I think it was the first time he had ever seen ice except when he was once given the opportunity to have it with his glass of coke in a cafe in Buenos Aires when he was 12. What I recall most about that match is that the turnstiles were opened about half an hour later than usual as the game was still in doubt an hour before kick off and that the half of the pitch towards the Covered End was rock hard as the sun hadn't got to it. Then Kendall, the Spurs keeper, took a catch above his head at the Covered End, slipped backwards and banged the back of his head on the hard ground knocking himself unconscious. Finished 0-0 but Villa was the star of the show. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
handsofclay Posted February 3, 2022 Report Share Posted February 3, 2022 (edited) 5 hours ago, The Horse With No Name said: Or the game at WBA when we were about the only game in the country still on . City wore revolutionary new dimpled boots designed for Arctic conditions. We slid to a 4-0 defeat . I'm pretty sure it was WBA who wore the astro boots that day and kept their footing while City players slipped all over the place. I recall their decision to do that being lauded in the national press after as a masterstroke. Im sure the boots were not specifically designed for artic conditions, someone at WBA simply thought their astro turf boots would be better in the conditions than studded boots and they were totally right! Edited February 3, 2022 by handsofclay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BTRFTG Posted February 3, 2022 Report Share Posted February 3, 2022 5 hours ago, Port Said Red said: I remember that. Ricardo Villa was walking everywhere like he was on his tiptoes and every time anyone got near him he just gave them a nudge and they fell over. To be fair that game was a mockery. Needed John Curry upfront to make it a spectacle. As you say everybody on tiptoe struggling to stand upright. Wasn't that also the game when, to keep warm, Spurs came into the Open End over the rear of the fence? It was a scene from 'Where Eagles Dare', they inching precariously along the top of the wall (fair drop in case you yung'uns never witnessed it,) then over the top of the spiky fence all whilst City did their best to propel them onto the roof of the old catering hut. Recall one Spurs fella being 'napalmed' with a freshly delivered Clarks to the mush. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bard Posted February 3, 2022 Report Share Posted February 3, 2022 7 hours ago, pillred said: They have been predicting an Arctic blizzard to hit the country since October, it was going to be a freeze hitting us last week as well, I suppose eventually they will get it right it's laughable how wrong they have been this year. Who is 'they'? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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