Cold matches

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Have to say like you lads are doing your layers wrong if you were cold on Tuesday. Thin fleece, light down jacket and my goretex waterproof over the top. Trackies under my jeans. Hat. Gloves. Thick socks. Toastie warm all night.

Ooh look at me everyone, I've a Goretex...pathetic!!
 
I was a regular in the Roker End at Roker Park and i'm hard pressed to think of a game where i wasn't freezing my bollocks off. When that wind blew off the North Sea that stadium must have been the coldest in football.
 
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Getting off the bus at Roker sea front was always freezing. Walking towards the old ground ribs aching from a combination of the cold and nerves

Had one of those days in January 1958, sleety spray howled across the pitch into the Fulwell End whole game, even the penguins left at half time. .
 
April 2006, Sunderland v Fulham match abandoned after 21 mins due to snow blizzard.

The chant was welcome to springtime in Sunderland!
 
It has to be one of the mildest winters on record, so perhaps we have been spoiled, and the first coldish day that comes along people are feeling it..
 
silk socks! Mr fancy pants.

I stick with Finnish knitted woolen socks for extra warmth n comfort.

They're probably better but I like how thin silk socks are while doing a surprisingly good job, not a fan of bulky socks. It was my dad got me onto them, I thought he was mad going on about silk socks but he was right.
 
They're probably better but I like how thin silk socks are while doing a surprisingly good job, not a fan of bulky socks. It was my dad got me onto them, I thought he was mad going on about silk socks but he was right.

15 denier <laugh>. <sorry>
 
I was a regular in the Roker End at Roker Park and i'm hard pressed to think of a game where i wasn't freezing my bollocks off. When that wind blew off the North Sea that stadium must have been the coldest in football.


Came up from Wales in the eighties one particularly freezing January with just a Sunderland shirt and a shell suit top on, I'll show em i thought,

Wind sleet and ice howling in like a Banshee. At least one fooka with nee shirt on ffs.
:D