Swansea game - snow bomb

[A Horse With No Name]

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.

[pillred]

BBC currently showing 9 degrees and sunny for us on the 13th. doubt Swansea will be much different.

Edited February 3, 2022 by pillred
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[Bernard Lerring]

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 

[ooRya]

Total clickbait. They are as bad as the Daily Express!

[Kid in the Riot]

They can't accurately predict the weather for tomorrow, let alone 9 days time.

[Homer Simpson]

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. 

[pillred]

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.

[pongo88]

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 

[Gazred]

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

[Sleepy1968]

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.

[Super]

Get the orange ball out

[Slippin cider]

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 .

[Loco Rojo]

'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

[Monkeh]

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

[phantom]

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

[Red-Robbo]

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.

 

 

[Red-Robbo]

And anyway, what's the problem with a bit of coldness....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/60240754

[Laner]

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.

[Port Said Red]

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.  

[pongo88]

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? 

[PhilC]

Their latest clickbait seems to be Highway code nonsense. What the #### is that about?

[Harry]

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! 

[A Horse With No Name]

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 .

[southside]

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

[Gimme Shelton]

I wonder how on earth we managed before a bit of rainy and windy weather had to be called by a silly name

[pongo88]

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

[handsofclay]

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.

[handsofclay]

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

[BTRFTG]

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.

[The Bard]

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'?

[pillred]

20 minutes ago, The Bard said:

Who is 'they'?

I was responding to a posting about the wrong weather predictions of the Daily express who are forever forecasting snow which hardly ever actually happens. 

[Red-Robbo]

2 minutes ago, pillred said:

I was responding to a posting about the wrong weather predictions of the Daily express who are forever forecasting snow which hardly ever actually happens. 

 

This sketch is basically a visual version of the Daily Express, including its weather forecasting:

 

 

[Red-Robbo]

8 minutes ago, TomF said:

Almost as bad as that ***** who runs ‘exacta weather’ from his mums bedroom and sells the most wild predictions to the express every winter. Him and Nathan Roe who write the stories each year need packing off to the artic where they can **** themselves silly with all the snow 

 

100% agree.  

This genuine meteorologist identifies the guilty men in this very angry blog:

https://durhamukweather.com/exacta-weather-and-the-daily-express-fake-weather-news/

[Midred]

I like it when the bbc morning forecast tells me that rain will be moving up to the midlands later on and I know it's been raining in the midlands all night!

[BTRFTG]

Lest not forget besides Weather the latest Clickbait, User Generated Content that's doing the rounds:

"UNRECOGNISABLE : You'll never believe what (insert OTIB member's name here) looks like these days !!!!"

(Insert school photo here)

(Insert 30 years older, married, kids, hard though not excessive living, here)

Conclude: Yeah it's (insert OTIB member's name here) they've aged .....

[bredwood]

31 minutes ago, Red-Robbo said:

 

100% agree.  

This genuine meteorologist identifies the guilty men in this very angry blog:

https://durhamukweather.com/exacta-weather-and-the-daily-express-fake-weather-news/

That was Piers Corbyns company. Well the best that can be said for him is that at least he’s been consistent with his production of bullshit over the years.

[TV Tom]

7 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 .

Went to WBA in late ‘70s on a Boxing Day, it was the only game on in the country, lost 3-1 after being 1 up at h/t, Regis, Cunningham and Robson at their peak

[RivieraRed]

Enjoy...  I remember going to Orient in the 80's, being charged full price after turning up at HT (the train broke down), snowball fight with the locals then Swindon being chased off by Divy... great day...

[Port Said Red]

1 hour ago, BTRFTG said:

Lest not forget besides Weather the latest Clickbait, User Generated Content that's doing the rounds:

"UNRECOGNISABLE : You'll never believe what (insert OTIB member's name here) looks like these days !!!!"

(Insert school photo here)

(Insert 30 years older, married, kids, hard though not excessive living, here)

Conclude: Yeah it's (insert OTIB member's name here) they've aged .....

"Number 4 will amaze you"!

[East End Old Boy]

9 hours 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 

Ardiles and Vila were the only two players who really handled the conditions that day!

[BS4 on Tour...]

12 hours ago, ooRya said:

Total clickbait. They are as bad as the Daily Express!

“Britain set to suffer worst winter for 120 years” ... is it me or does the Express trot that headline out every single year ?! ...

[slartibartfast]

23 hours 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 

The player that stood out for me was Ricky Villa, for a big unit he seemed to glide across the pitch, while other players had a job just to stand !

 

edit  Sorry, just noticed EEOB post .

Edited February 4, 2022 by slartibartfast

[slartibartfast]

14 hours ago, RivieraRed said:

Enjoy...  I remember going to Orient in the 80's, being charged full price after turning up at HT (the train broke down), snowball fight with the locals then Swindon being chased off by Divy... great day...

Yes, remember the turnstile guy saying  " There's Swindon up the other end.............if you want them " !

[slartibartfast]

15 hours ago, BTRFTG said:

Lest not forget besides Weather the latest Clickbait, User Generated Content that's doing the rounds:

"UNRECOGNISABLE : You'll never believe what (insert OTIB member's name here) looks like these days !!!!"

(Insert school photo here)

(Insert 30 years older, married, kids, hard though not excessive living, here)

Conclude: Yeah it's (insert OTIB member's name here) they've aged .....

I look just the same !  

[slartibartfast]

On 03/02/2022 at 11:19, Gazred said:

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?

With my " conspiracy" head on ,there is no profit (consumer wise) in saying that the summer is going to be meh, and likewise the winter. Who's going to rush out and get new BBQs or winter wear and sledges ? How much are the forecasters paid in backhanders to "alarm" the population ?

[BTRFTG]

1 hour ago, slartibartfast said:

I look just the same !  

Indeed you do Slarti, though whether or not that's a good or bad thing I wouldn't like to say.......

[slartibartfast]

On 03/02/2022 at 13:03, 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 had the "moon boots", THEN we invested in some, seem to remember a big article in EP about it .