30th January 1963 - United travelled to Highbury for a third round FA Cup tie
with Arsenal - played in the afternoon of Jan 30th.
The UK was in the grip of its coldest winter since 1740.The round had begun on
5 January and lasted 66 days through frost, snow, ice, power cuts, thaw, rain and mud.
The third round was spread over 22 different playing days and there were 261 postponements.
Sixteen of the 32 ties were called off 10 or more times.
The Pools panel was borne out of the fixture chaos.The original panel consisted of six men:
former England players Tom Finney, Tommy Lawton and Ted Drake,
former Scotland full-back George Young, former World Cup referee Arthur Ellis, and John Theodore
Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara.
Their deliberations were made behind closed doors and then announced live on BBC television.
The cold weather in 1962-1963 was so bad that the U's
did not manage a league game between 22nd December and March 9th!
Meanwhile the U's were thrashed 5-1 by the Gunners on a snow covered pitch
before a paltry crowd of 14,624. Tony Jones scoring for Oxford.
More than 3,000 travelled from Oxfordshire to North London.
United - Medlock; Beavon, Quartermain, Kyle, R.Atkinson; Knight, Evans; Love, G.Atkinson; Houghton, Jones
30th January 1982 also saw Ian Greaves take control of the U's for the final time
with the yellows winning 3-1 at Fellows Park, Walsall. Roy Barry then took over
as caretaker manager as Greaves took the reins at Molineux, Wolverhampton.
