Do you remember the game at Oakwell against Sunderland...

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  1. Mr Badger

    Mr Badger Well-Known Member

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    which was played in a howling gale a few years ago, the wind was so strong it made the East Stand rock !!
    We won the game 1-0 if memory serves right.
     
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    No. but got a **** memory o_O
     
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    Me too!
     
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    dreamboy3000, Mar 11, 2019
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    Wasn't that the match where we scored from a corner and the wind helped it in ?
     
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    Mal Shotton scored with a wind assisted thunderbolt from about 35 yards. If the net hadn’t stopped it it would’ve landed in Monk Bretton :)
     
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    2-0, think Payton got the second.
     
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    I remember a few weeks after our son was born, in 1987, we played away at Sunderland and, after being 2-0 down, we won 3-2. This meant Sunderland were in a relegation Play Off against Gillingham, which they lost and dropped inton Division 3.
    In 1994, just a few weeks after our daughter was born, we played Sunderland at home and beat then 4-0.
    Our first Grandson is due to be born within the next few weeks. If we don't win, then I'll make sure in the coming years he knows it was all his fault!:D
     
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    People were running out of the East Stand in a panic - me included - because we thought the whole lot was coming down.
     
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    Don't think it had be open long. Me and my bro were in the upper tier and it didn't half wobble a bit!
     
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    Many of you will have read this true story before, so apologies if so. The architects who designed the east stand were Nuttall Yarwood of Dodworth, and the main responsible architect was a friend of mine who today is my next door neighbour. I sat with him at the match, and we saw Malcom Shotton's puny effort go in, after orbiting the earth twice. The stand was moving in the wind, and the guy next to me said "I hope the bloody architect knew what he was doing". I said, "why don't you ask him?", after which a really interesting conversation (!) about stress loading calculations took place. The whole structure is designed to move - if it were rigid it would just snap in extreme winds. People were in fact leaving their seats in fear, but my mate sat there to the end, like the captain of the Titanic.
     
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    That's a good story! Wish I'd bloody known at the time!
     
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    I sat there that day, solid.

    Anyone remember the Sunderland fan run on the pitch and get his arse bit by the police dog?
     
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    I was in the East Stand that night. Really scary. Spoke to a mate of mine in Donny who
    had worked on it for his firm Miller Construction. Quite relieved to be told that the movement
    in high winds was a design feature and that it was natural for the Stand to appear to tremble.
     
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    I didn't change my seat, but I remember having to change my underpants
    when I got home.!
     
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    Payton scored as me and a few hundred others were walking down the staircase. The only match Iv ever left early. Was only a kid and petrified
     
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    What I've never worked out is why it moved by what seemed like a country mile that game but it's never moved an inch since
     
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    I assume it's because since that game I've never had such severe problems with wind.
     
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    *Giggles*
     
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