Rage Online

called off at 6.45 tonight.

Fantastic - having negotiated what would have been a horrendous M42 at that time, the inbreds have to turn round and go back to their hovel.

Marvellous.

Slightly random I know, but thinking of Walsall for a moment, I wonder whatever happened to Sumo?

The game at Kenilworth Road was called off after eight minutes, which must be one of the quickest on record.

&quotRadley Rambler&quot wrote:called off at 6.45 tonight.

Fantastic - having negotiated what would have been a horrendous M42 at that time, the inbreds have to turn round and go back to their hovel.

Marvellous.

According to an article in the latest OxVox ezine we shouldn’t hate Slumdon.

A good job that was not posted on here, as I understand the rules rightfully don’t allow such profanity.

Interesting article about why we shouldn't hate Slumdon.

If I remember correctly a previous fanzine tried to peddle the same line but both articles ignore the simple biological point - it's in the genes - I can't help hating Slumdon. Sorry!

The other bonus here being that you get your money back if the game is called off in the 1st 20 mins. This was called off after 23 mins! Brilliant!

And it just keeps getting better.

Apparently “500||

What is the swiftest weather-related abandonment that anybody can trace?

&quotrecordmeister&quot wrote:This was called off after 23 mins! Brilliant!

I thought the game was called off an hour before the start?

&quotPeña Oxford United&quot wrote:What is the swiftest weather-related abandonment that anybody can trace?

Well it probably won't count because the clock hadn't started, but there was our game at Watford that was called off a minute before kick-off.

&quotboris&quot wrote:Well it probably won't count because the clock hadn't started

Indeed.

What interests me is games where conditions were deemed to be fit for play to start - and then rapidly ceasing to be so.

&quotPeña Oxford United&quot wrote:

&quotboris&quot wrote:Well it probably won't count because the clock hadn't started

Indeed.

What interests me is games where conditions were deemed to be fit for play to start - and then rapidly ceasing to be so.

Fog must be a major contributor in that scenario.

&quotSnake&quot wrote: According to an article in the latest OxVox ezine we shouldn’t hate Slumdon.

A good job that was not posted on here, as I understand the rules rightfully don’t allow such profanity.

I'm sorry but he (if it is a he) just isn't right, I could understand if he was very young and had never been to a derby match but he appears to be of an age where he would have experienced a few. My first trip to the County Ground ended in a glorious 3 - 1 win but prior to the game Steve Daniels and I (yes the same Steve Daniels who takes the photos) were threatened in the ground by a bloke with a hammer who wanted to steal our scarves and the feelings all started from that point.

Everything about the place makes me want to hate it, crap parking, crap stand, even crapper stewards (remind me to tell you one day about the time I got thrown out before I even got in), crap fans who think they're hard but run when you say boo, crap crowd control - 2 years running we had to let ourselves out (by removing the gates from their hinges), crap terracing before the stands were put in (uprooted crash barrier anyone?), crap refereeing decisions (where else would a goal be allowed to stand while the goalie is blinded by a smoke bomb?) and worst of all crap results there year after year after year.

God I really hate them and I do stand up - in the SSL - on my own.

Hammer man never did get our scarves, he ran off when us skinny 17 year olds laughed at him and told him to fuck off.

And a crap roundabout.

EDIT - missed out a question mark - don't want the punctuation police onto me.

&quotPeña Oxford United&quot wrote:

&quotboris&quot wrote:Well it probably won't count because the clock hadn't started

Indeed.

What interests me is games where conditions were deemed to be fit for play to start - and then rapidly ceasing to be so.

I think we can include the first Watford match in this category - because the referee was out there warming up alongside the players prior to kick-off, so the pitch must, at that point, still have been seen as acceptable for play. This was what threw me and those around me at the time - we could not understand how the match could have been called off when they had only just been out there warming up on a pitch where conditions - presumably, with hindsight - did actually deteriorate so swiftly.

A tie also memorable, of course, because the rearranged fixture only went ahead because there was an electrician amongst the Oxford fans who could fix Watford's knackered floodlights it was, as I recall, a match Matty Elliott was threatening not to play in because he wanted to be allowed to move to Leicester - oh, and after all that, we lost....

Apparently, according to a Slumdon fan on 606 last night, the team coach broke down on the way back!

It just gets better and better...