Memory is going...!

[blue b4 the moon]

@BlueFurn Chelsea just parked up with my Dad and had to turn round & go home.

 

[oakiecokie]

The Kippax roof was "off" when the new development of the new Kippax was taking place (see Spurs at home 5-2) Perhaps thats where some confusion may be coming from.

 

[J.G.Blue.]

We’ve had many games postponed ( called off before they start )

Abandoned means it started but didn’t finish. Did your fog game actually start? I’m interested in what game it was either way because I don’t recall it.

I would think it would be mid to late 70s, we were living in Shropshire & a couple of mates had tagged along with me & my dad, glorious sunny weather all the way until we got to manchester, we walked to the ground at around 1.30 & people were walking away saying it had been called off, so we went off to the sports depo up the road & as I remember come 3oclock the sun was shining but the game was still off,
Sadly I cant remember who it was against?

 

[Zapcity]

Just checked the other Ipswich game that was called off. Worthington Cup (League Cup) Quarter Final in 2000, 1:1 at the time.
Looking at the photos it looks a little 'damp.

 

[Norman kneejerk]

The Kippax not having a roof and Nicky Summerbee playing couldn't have happened surely? Or perhaps my memory has gone?

Think he means when it was rebuilt not the original

 

[HelloCity]

Leicester at home 94/95 season. Lost 1-0. Kippax was being rebuilt.

 

[pace89]

Sounds like Leicester in 94/95. The pitch was no more playable than the Ipswich game a year earlier. We were shite.

I think this was the game where a Vicar was called on the public address to return to his Church because it was flooded.

 

[cleavers]

Just checked the other Ipswich game that was called off. Worthington Cup (League Cup) Quarter Final in 2000, 1:1 at the time.
Looking at the photos it looks a little 'damp.

I was at that, we walked across from The Parkside pub, and the road was about 1 foot deep in water, amazed it started at all as the pitch was similar when we got inside, though the rain eased, it was farcical. Pretty sure the kippax had it's roof by then though.

Looks like you have your answer though.

 

[kinky's boots]

This was possibly it ?
It was a dire evening game when it was raining / sleeting. Mark Robins scored the only goal after a back pass got stuck in a puddle ?
That was a long journey home, that night…although was it Cantona’s Hong Kong Phooey night too ?

That's the one! Thank you, yes confusion reigned there

 

[BillCarlisle]

Just checked the other Ipswich game that was called off. Worthington Cup (League Cup) Quarter Final in 2000, 1:1 at the time.
Looking at the photos it looks a little 'damp.

That game should never have started. The pitch was waterlogged and the rain was so heavy that fans in the first dozen rows of the North Stand all scuttled off to stand at the back. As I recall Ipswich went ahead by a goal caused by the atrocious conditions with the ball sticking in the puddles and catching City's defence out. Can't remember who the ref was but as soon as City equalised he abandoned the game. It looked to me like he knew he fecked up big time by not postponing it in the first place.

 

[Champions Again Ole Ole]

Just checked the other Ipswich game that was called off. Worthington Cup (League Cup) Quarter Final in 2000, 1:1 at the time.
Looking at the photos it looks a little 'damp.

This was the game I was thinking of. Had a feeling it was a cup game. Knew it was early 00s cos I remember swp being on the bench

 

[WNRH]

That game should never have started. The pitch was waterlogged and the rain was so heavy that fans in the first dozen rows of the North Stand all scuttled off to stand at the back. As I recall Ipswich went ahead by a goal caused by the atrocious conditions with the ball sticking in the puddles and catching City's defence out. Can't remember who the ref was but as soon as City equalised he abandoned the game. It looked to me like he knew he fecked up big time by not postponing it in the first place.

Pretty sure it was Dickov who scored it who looked pissed off as he thought the ref was chalking it off rather than cancelling the game.

 

[we are the east stand]

The old Kippax was still fully in place for the ipswich game, and Summerbee was playing for Swindon still.

Ive got a vague memory of it pissing down against Leicester and getting beat, would of been early 95?

There was no roof on the new kippax for that Leicester game, I remember getting soaked to the bone in that one.

 

[KS55]

The Kippax not having a roof and Nicky Summerbee playing couldn't have happened surely? Or perhaps my memory has gone?

Think he means the new Kippax.

 

[Vic]

Did a little bit of research for you mate, the roof was put on the Kippax in 1956 the nearest game I can find abandoned because of a waterlogged pitch was Newcastle in 1969 finished 1:1 with Bobby Owen scoring just before half time the crowd was over 60000.
Really hope this helps Blue.

Tony Coleman was all for playing on, while stood in an inch of water.

 

[Milesvk]

Wasn't the re-match for the Ipswich game franny Lee second coming match with the players coming out to 'the only way is up' and David rocastle doing that bit of skill and Carl 'Haaland' Griffiths scoring the winner?

 

[Centurions]

The season after the Kippax terrace came down, was there not temporary uncovered seating there for at least some of that season?
'Nicky Sumerbee playing couldn't have happened', does make sense though, as though he was on the pitch he often didn't really play did he! (frustrating wasn't he!)
Actually think we had 2 matches called off at Maine Road during 'my time', both bizarrely against Ipswich I believe.

Lol, I meant both happening in the same time frame both apparently it was my memory.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

This thread reminds me of Wigan away in the 3rd division at Springfield Park.
Pissing it down all day and the game should never have started. How it ended was a mystery.
Rumour was the police put a little pressure on the ref as they didn't want to deal with thousands of Blues in all the local boozers for the rest of the day.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Sounds like Leicester in 94/95. The pitch was no more playable than the Ipswich game a year earlier. We were shite.

I think this was the game where a Vicar was called on the public address to return to his Church because it was flooded.

Here is the goal......
The chance they show of City trying to score appears to slow down just short of the line

 

[Yankunian]

United battered us at Maine Road 3-0 in 95 and I was sat in Kippax which had no roof on and it hammered down all day, if my memory serves me the game was in doubt in the morning.