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Post by Basil is a Gooner »

http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archiv ... -postponed

Looking at the photos its hard to see what took them so long..... :roll:

Andrey is saying - "its just a bit of snow"...... :barscarf:
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Right decision to call it off but as that Percy bloke has mentioned, why so fucking late :banghead:
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Just got on the train to London when the call came through :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
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Just got back from a nice train trip from Bristol to Reading, could have been worse i guess :lol:
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Basil is a Gooner wrote:http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archiv ... -postponed

Looking at the photos its hard to see what took them so long..... :roll:

Andrey is saying - "its just a bit of snow"...... :barscarf:
Why has someone got a West Ham carrier bag :lol: :lol:
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was up at the stadium when the game was called off. they had four guys with giant shovel things that you can see in the morning website snow pics, but there was so much snow falling it made their efforts pointless. it was a couple of inches thick, it would have turned to slush when people came for the match and that would have frozen by the time of their exit. in this age of people suing for slipping up, arsenal would have taken a beating as i am sure there would have been a few casualties.

so right decision, but i've been looking at the forecasts and this was highly predictable. guy i know that travels from the midlands to home games was on a train to london by that time.

anyway, will do an editorial on this tomorrow so i'll stop here as there are a few more bullets to fire on this. got some pics too which i'll link to when i do the piece - they're not on photobucket yet otherwise i'd link to them here.
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Well they've just said that Victoria will be closing early this evening about 8.15pm ish so that was me not being able to get home if it had gone ahead.
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gooner.ed wrote:was up at the stadium when the game was called off. they had four guys with giant shovel things that you can see in the morning website snow pics, but there was so much snow falling it made their efforts pointless. it was a couple of inches thick, it would have turned to slush when people came for the match and that would have frozen by the time of their exit. in this age of people suing for slipping up, arsenal would have taken a beating as i am sure there would have been a few casualties.

so right decision, but i've been looking at the forecasts and this was highly predictable. guy i know that travels from the midlands to home games was on a train to london by that time.

anyway, will do an editorial on this tomorrow so i'll stop here as there are a few more bullets to fire on this. got some pics too which i'll link to when i do the piece - they're not on photobucket yet otherwise i'd link to them here.
Good point Kev. This snow has been forecast for at least 24 hours and in this day and age it's no longer just about the pitch. The club are afraid of the thousands of people that would "slip over" and contact Blame Direct before their arse had even hit the tarmac.

Luckily I hadn't left home before the news broke but it was inevitable early this morning so why did they wait so long?
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I'm gutted as it means I had to come home put the fuses back in so I could turn the heating on. :banghead:


Still, the wife's pleased as the kids have thawed out now :lol:
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BBC London have just reported the game is cancelled so anyone travelling to Highbury need not bother.

Glad to see the BBC weather and sports reporting is up to date!
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hanny73 wrote:BBC London have just reported the game is cancelled so anyone travelling to Highbury need not bother.

Glad to see the BBC weather and sports reporting is up to date!

Yes I saw that already hadn't bothered & home :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Regardless of the conditions immediately outside and around the ground, surely the club were aware of the situation in regardfs to the surrounding home counties and the travel choas for many fans. Bunch of fuckwits that could not organise a trophy in five years of trying :banghead:
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MutleyGooner wrote:Regardless of the conditions immediately outside and around the ground, surely the club were aware of the situation in regardfs to the surrounding home counties and the travel choas for many fans. Bunch of fuckwits that could not organise a trophy in five years of trying :banghead:
Yes this was not a sudden unforecast bout of snow :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

Can only organise the Emirates trophy these days :roll: :roll: :roll: :banghead:
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Basil is a Gooner wrote:Seeing as this snow was forecast perhaps the club should have reached this decision earlier rather than holding out until the last?

If it went ahead it would be ok for you fans who live walking distance from the ground but not us who live that bit further away........

I like the way they say Highbury..... :barscarf:

Boomer - thats £35 for my seat please. 8)
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I wonder if Wenger was a bit insistent on it being played due to fixture congestion hence not calling it off yesterday as is normally the case.

The real people who lose out are the Bolton fans who have traveled much further. And because they support Bolton.

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