This!

Can I challenge this with Odsal - Feb 2011?

The coldest I have EVER been

Same. And we've got another February visit to there this year to look forward to!

Oldham hands down, either as a player or a spectator it's freezing. I swear it's got it's own micro-climate, it takes cold to a new, lower degree in my experience.

Sat 10th Jan 1987, Burnden Park, Bolton, John Player Trophy Final v Warrington, absolutely bl**dy freezing, if it hadn't been for the under soil heating the game wouldn't have been played.

I seem the recall they made the error of thinking the heating could thaw the pitch out whereas it can only prevent the ground from freezing by being switched on in advance.

Sighs deeply at thoughts of my other spiritual home.......................

You're right, it was bloody cold that day. The coldest two grounds I've ever been to have to be Odsal and the Watersheddings. Rogues may remember this one though. It would be Boxing Day on either 1966 or 1967. Wire v Widnes was called off and my friend's Dad took us to KR to watch Saints v Wigan. The pitch had been covered in straw and it was piled up around the touchlines. It was a fantastic first half and played at a hell of a pace, but as my friend and I were small boys we were at the front and you could hear the studs on the frozen ground. As a result the ref abandoned the game at HT. It was desperately cold that day, and on reflection they should never have started.

Watersheddings Oldham was the coldest I have ever been outdoors in this country. Wire were playing and it was December, it was a night match. I don't know the score because I think I too was in the early stages of hypothermia. We arrived 90 minutes before kick off so all in all we were stood for over 3 hours in the coldest weather I can ever recall. Walking back to the Car I was swaying as if I had too many beers and my coordination was going.

Snap.
Jees I miss it

Thirded over here. Barely go to the Reebok these days and go to away games instead. Bobbins matchday experience compared to dear old Burnden (though we'd be a lower League One club now had we stayed there).

ahmen to that .........Saddleworth away as a player in Jauary mid 90's.....
the ground was wet and soggy but a crisp layer of ice from freshly fallen hailstones meant the cold hit you first when you hit the ground....

then a fresh hailstorm half way through the game had grown men dithering it was an awful but amazing experience.

At full time blokes were sprinting to the changing rooms....Saddleworth had a big bath back then and our number 8 was just sat there in the bath couldnt speak and was trying to drink a steaming hot cup of tea with hands shaking like he had advanced parkinsons.......