More complicated than that :(

First, the earlier you leave, the icier the roads.

Then there is the risk of postponement, these days more likely because of the safety issues around the stadium rather than the state of the pitch.

In Norwich there is an issue of parking; County Hall car park is on a hill and is not gritted. It will have been empty since 6 so any snow will have laid and frozen. In the past they have had to close it.

The worst from my point of view probably doesn't arise this time: driving a long distance in falling snow. A few years ago it started snowing late on a Saturday afternoon. By the time I reached Newmarket the snow was so heavy you couldn't tell where you were or where the side of the road was, the road hadn't been gritted and there was a slow procession all following the tail light in front and hoping you didn't have to brake. I don't know how long it took to get to the M11 services, where it had cleared, but it was probably the most frightening and stressed single period of time I've ever spent in my life.

So I don't like snow around match days.

It is also not coming far enough South to kill off all the nasties (invasive insects etc) that are starting to breed in the UK due to milder winters, but that's another story.

Of course, in my day we had real winters, 1963 and all that. In my stoodent days at UEA in the 70's you could expect a couple of weeks of it. (drifts off into incoherent mumbling)...

Posted By: watfordcanary on February 1st 2008 at 20:04:01

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