PITCH INSPECTION AT OXFORD Club News There will be a pitch inspection at the Kassam Stadium ahead of our Sky Bet League One clash with Oxford United this afternoon, with temperatures falling lower than expected overnight. Continue reading on the official site...
It’s amazing how many games are off after a couple of days of frost. Whatever happened to the days when players just adjusted their footwear and cracked on ( seventies and all that) !
And put spikes in instead of studs actually didn’t they just play in trainers or with very short studs
I remember us playing stoke at home whilst it was freezing on boxing day 1996 & a few of our players wore trainers
They did, I would have thought nowadays they have the choice of astroturf studs too. If they call games off after a few days of not particularly bad frost, God knows how they will go on if the weather actually turns bad.