Weather and wasted Tuesday's?

[os]

Seeing as this looks set to be our worst winter in 30yrs, I wonder when we will get to play again and what the league's will do about fixture pile ups? Pitches nowadays have to be a heck of a lot better to be passed fit then they did back when we used to see winters like this on a regular basis. I mean you don't see the mud and water going flying everywhere and the good old orange ball being kicked about on top of a Xmas cake on pitches anymore. Ricay still have 26 league matches to play in 16 weeks and that's without any further postponements and we have already had 21 weeks of the season. Is it really right that some sides maybe even us will have to play 3 times a week to finish the season on time? I think we have had something like 7 or so blank Tuesday's this season which all seems a bit of a waste to me.

[vern]

As the climate turns colder maybe semi-professional clubs will have to be treated differently by the FA, UEFA and FIFA from those with bags of cash...unless of course they will fork out for undersoil heating for the likes of us.

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[tonyd]

Hold on! I thought the climate was getting warmer? What was all that guff in Copenhagen? I've been looking forward to Mediterranean type weather and watching evening games in February in shirt sleeves. All these years of running a gas-guzzling 4 x 4 and its getting COLDER?

[Burtie]

In my playing days, we'd have a double-header. Two matches against the same team, 30 mins each half. A good test of players' fitness. Fortunately I played in goal.

[DaveF]

But it's 40 degrees warmer in parts of Russia, only -35C instead of -75C.

[vern]

Yeah maybe, but who was around in Russia to measure the temperatures 100, 200, 400 years ago? Nobody.

[DaveF]

Of course there were people around. They might not have had thermometers mind you.......

But of course that's not how scientists calculate historic temperatures anyway.