Chelsea vs Manchester United

I know that some on here are going to call it dodgy if it is called off , but if it is ,it will not be because Chelsea have asked for it it will be on the advise of the Police.
What about those travelling down by road, if the forecast is right ,it is going to be one hell of a bad journey.
 
Most likely it will be called off, fecking weather. In all the areas where it has started to snow today it hasn't seemed to stop, throw frost into the equation and it seems very unlikely this game will go ahead going by last season.
 
pauldyson1uk said:
It was a weekend and no everything was not running fine , London Transport ground to a half both London airports shut in Heathrow s case for 2 and half days and that was because the snow froze solid.

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Apologies, I thought the match was called off due to conditions outside of the immediate area of Stamford Bridge being iced up etc. A day prior to the match, on the day the traffic was meant to be free flowing and the areas around the ground clear.
 
cj_sparky said:
Apologies, I thought the match was called off due to conditions outside of the immediate area of Stamford Bridge being iced up etc. A day prior to the match, on the day the traffic was meant to be free flowing and the areas around the ground clear.
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If the game had of been at 3pm on the Saturday , it would of gone ahead , I am sure because you were right the condition round the ground were OK,
 
FreakyJim said:
doesn't look bad, roads are fine

sort of :]
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Quite...

Inner London as always looks to have escaped it for the moment though outer London and the motorways on the whole look as it does on that shot of the M1. It is also worth pointing out that the one part of the tube network to have been closed down as a consequence is the northern extreme of the metropolitan line out on the fringes of Bucks, not to distant from where Man United fans would be coming in from on the M40 or M1.
 
What time did they call it off at last year?

I am dreading waking up in the morning and checking SSN. Will be gutted if this does not go ahead.

No Terry, Cole or Drogba. In awful form....
 
Randall Flagg said:
What time did they call it off at last year?

I am dreading waking up in the morning and checking SSN. Will be gutted if this does not go ahead.

No Terry, Cole or Drogba. In awful form....
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24 hours before I think.
 
Randall Flagg said:
What time did they call it off at last year?

I am dreading waking up in the morning and checking SSN. Will be gutted if this does not go ahead.

No Terry, Cole or Drogba. In awful form....
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It was the lunchtime on the day beforehand, though that was after London got hammered with snow that morning.
 
Roads might look fine, but the District line is the one of the worst for fecking up at the slightest bit of bad weather. That would cause huge travel problems.
 
My dad's in Putney right now

"Snowing really hard. airport will be closed tomorrow - no chance of United game going ahead."

I'm hoping this is him being melodramatic :(
 
pauldyson1uk said:
If they did call it off I suspect it would be in the morning , they would not want 1000's of fans travelling for a match that has been called off , I would say we will know by 9am
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8pm at the very earliest I would hope.

Providing it is called off and both teams still are in Europe, the match will probably be rearranged to the week starting 26th March. United play Fulham at Old Trafford and don't play again until next Monday so it'll be fitted in midweek.
 
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No chance of this going ahead based on the info in here.
 
I live pretty close by and the snow is falling hard but I still think it's more likely to go ahead given the short notice. Last time they cancelled more than 24 hours in advance.
 
Donkey's Ears said:
I live pretty close by and the snow is falling hard but I still think it's more likely to go ahead given the short notice. Last time they cancelled more than 24 hours in advance.
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I have known Chelsea games to be cancelled on the same afternoon in the past.
 
Donkey's Ears said:
I live pretty close by and the snow is falling hard but I still think it's more likely to go ahead given the short notice. Last time they cancelled more than 24 hours in advance.
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Short notice has nothing to do with it , if the conditions are that bad, then it wont go ahead.
The police will always put the safety of the public over holding a football match and you cant really argue with that.
 
There's no more snow forecast from tomorrow morning until after the game so if it survives the night hopefully there'll be a good chance of it going ahead. As long as the surrounding roads are clear it should be on. There should be people gritting the streets and walkways.
 
RonaldoVII said:
There's no more snow forecast from tomorrow morning until after the game so if it survives the night hopefully there'll be a good chance of it going ahead. As long as the surrounding roads are clear it should be on. There should be people gritting the streets and walkways.
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It will be based on how well the tube and the buses are operating, how well national rail is operating, whether the motorways and A-roads into the home counties are clear.

London's sum total of gritters - and grit has to be laid before it snows to work effectively and only works above something like -5, is 40.
 
We need to learn how not shit the bed as a nation everytime it snows. If only it were possible to know in advance what time of year it's most likely to snow, then we could try prepare for it.
 
What's the issue with snow and trains or subways? Is it about people not being able to get to them rather than the snow impacting their function?
 
gooDevil said:
What's the issue with snow and trains or subways? Is it about people not being able to get to them rather than the snow impacting their function?
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Moreso the latter, the day the match was cancelled last year there were reports of tube carriages not being able to turn their wheels and were skidding in their tracks.

EDIT: Parts of the Bakerloo Line, Central Line, Jubilee Line, Metropolitan Line and Piccadilly Line are now suspended.
 
Seems odd, I'd think it would take serious negative temperatures to free wheels or axles so badly that they can't turn. I suppose I can see that ice on the rails could cause problems. Anyone know about trains running in seriously cold places, do they have to design the rails differently or something?
 
gooDevil said:
Seems odd, I'd think it would take serious negative temperatures to free wheels or axles so badly that they can't turn. I suppose I can see that ice on the rails could cause problems. Anyone know about trains running in seriously cold places, do they have to design the rails differently or something?
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That is what I think it was, it was in the outer boroughs it was reported to be happening where the tube runs in the open air.
 
Delays of 30 - 90 minutes are now being reported at Kings Cross, London Bridge and Victoria.
 
fecksake, seriously?! Exactly the same as last year, they're weakened and ripe for the taking, we have players coming back from injury and the weather saves their asses. What's the odds of them having a strong team with better form for the replay and still needing a poor offside call, freekick that never was and/or obvious fouls missed by the officals?

I fecking hate Stamford Bridge.
 
Judging by this, from near Hammersmith

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and the Webcam above, where you can still just about make out the pitch lines, it doesn't look too bad. Who knows what'll happen over the next seven or eight hours until it's supposedly meant to stop, but here, ten miles away, the snow's turned to sleety-rain stuff. Still falling though.
 
The Eastern End of the District Line - the line that serves Stamford Bridge - is succumbing to severe delays.

The last tube trains leaving Central London at 00:30 and on a Sunday will start up again at around 6:30 - giving TFL six hours to clear all lines before opening for business.

Stamford Bridge is in Zone 2 and is around one thousand yards downline from the subsurface part of the District Line. If the TFL is determined to keep it running on behalf of Chelsea it shouldn't be too taxing.
 
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If they really don't have undersoil heating then why not just try cover the ground?
 
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