God getting involved to stop us losing again and giving us a chance to win a home game that season... (If you're religious!)
Coventry away in 1982...midweek game, last minute decision to drive down.. absolutely pi55ed down for the entire 90 minutes and we were thrashed 6-1. Proper long drive home that
One game I remember being soaked at was against Southend under Butcher or Buxton, it probably wasn't as bad as some others where I've probably been soaked more, but it sticks in my mind. It was late November, mostly sleet and rain and we lost 2-0 at home. We were on an awful run of form at the time, it was either Butchers last game in charge or Buxtons first. It sticks in my mind as we made Southend look like Brazil, we were that bad. It was cold, heavy sleet and rain, we looked bereft of confidence, there was only about 15k there, and we were outplayed by a team with Brett Angell leading the line.
I wasn't but a couple of my mates went. They said they stopped off before getting to Accrington and a bloke said it would either be postponed or abandoned. Apparently then the pitch was notorious for not draining properly, it was mostly clay soil so got waterlogged easily. When they got to the ground and saw the state of it and the rain coming down they thought it would be called off. The conspiracy theory at the time was that it only went ahead because the Accrington chairman pushed for it as it was their biggest crowd of the season and they'd spent a lot on "refreshments" and couldn't afford the refund. We were winning 1-0 and one of the lads said a bloke nearby said"if they equalise he'll abandon it". About 10 minutes later they did and sure enough just afterwards he abandoned the game. Everyone said it should never have started, you could tell it was virtually unplayable.
