Hottest match at Turf Moor

[Rowls]

Looked it up: It was 19th August 1995 and it was 0-0.

The heatwave gets its own wiki article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Grea ... _heat_wave

[Rowls]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGgJreW ... ex=14&t=0s

[tim_noone]

Preston away when we won the second division title was pretty hot ... as was Blackpool with kightley scoring.

[Rowls]

9th Agugst 1997
Watford 1-0 Burnley
Weather forecast from the Friday:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhMiz3A ... dex=9&t=0s

25th August 2001
Millwall 0-2 Burnley
Weather forecast from the Friday:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5r4lK8 ... ex=20&t=0s

[Somethingfishy]

Palace in 2003. Ridiculously hot that afternoon. Two away games to add to that too, Watford in 1997 and Millwall in 2001.

Watford in 97 i remember well. Waddles first game. We more or less filled the Rookery end..now the home end. I got back to the coach and i had some ham and cheese butties in a box. They were in a right state due to the heat when i got back. It was unbearable on that coach waiting for the police escort out. Inhumane.
I remember an early season game away at Stockport too. So hot it wasnt advisable to lean on the crush barriers.

[ClaretTony]

Watford in 97 i remember well. Waddles first game. We more or less filled the Rookery end..now the home end. I got back to the coach and i had some ham and cheese butties in a box. They were in a right state due to the heat when i got back. It was unbearable on that coach waiting for the police escort out. Inhumane.
I remember an early season game away at Stockport too. So hot it wasnt advisable to lean on the crush barriers.

I drove that day to Watford and got back to the car to find a flat tyre. With three kids in the car and a neighbour who had suffered a stroke. So I was left to sort it out myself in that heat.

[gawthorpe_view]

The opening game in 2003 was the end of a very long hot summer.
It was 33 degrees C when I got back to my car which was parked, thankfully, in the shade.
I think Luke Chadwick made his debut that day, and I was stuck to the plastic seat in the James Hargreaves Upper.