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The Shots are still playing according to the bbc website,Paul...So disappointing.
Will have to spend that day with family now. D'oh!
The Shots are still playing according to the bbc website,Paul...So disappointing.
Will have to spend that day with family now. D'oh!
Pitch has been given the all clear by the ref but did say the away end needs to flattened down a bit due to it being rolled up in the tubeI went up to Preston in the 80's to watch city play when Deepdale had astroturf, Game was off due to frozen pitch !!!???? . I'd have an early pitch inspection of your kitchen table if i were you. 8-|
I always thought it was the referee who called a game off.......I'm taking it that (understandably) the decision was made by Clive P. and the City groundstaff, thus preventing the officials (who would have needed to be paid) and the Swindon team from setting out.
Quite right Olds, Preston had a plastic pitch for a couple of seasons but I thought it was at least a decade earlier than the time you recall. QPR was another one, and Luton rings a bell, but I could be wrong.They did...They definitely had a plastic pitch when i visited Deepdale in 1986-87
QPR had the first plastic pitch,followed by Luton & Preston iirc.....The FL outlawed them in the mid 1990's..Quite right Olds, Preston had a plastic pitch for a couple of seasons but I thought it was at least a decade earlier than the time you recall. QPR was another one, and Luton rings a bell, but I could be wrong.
That's a long way from Exmouth!The Shots are still playing according to the bbc website,Paul...
Are you sure? With the weather as extreme as it is at present, I suspect that would have put an awful lot off, plus these days I'd suggest we don't have as many people just turn up on the day like they used to, both because of games' preium status and that it costs more to pay on the day.A weekday evening will not produce anywhere near the same gate as Boxing Day would have.
That was the first season they had it Pete...The previous visit to Deepdale at the end of 85-86 season.It was a grass pitch..Preston had dropped a long way in those days.They ended up in the re-election zone with the Grecians at the seasons end..Quite right Olds, Preston had a plastic pitch for a couple of seasons but I thought it was at least a decade earlier than the time you recall.
Seriously, that was the case in my day, but I think thats changed now since many referee's used to insist on travelling a long distance so that that they could pick up expenses etc. even though they had been forwarned that the game could never happen!I always thought it was the referee who called a game off.......