Saturday, Portman Road, Ipswich - Ipswich Town 3 Leicester City 0 Match played in blizzard conditions - players taken off the field to allow for snow clearance for 17 minutes.
Match resumed and completed.
Played on snow with an orange ball, just how football should be played, demonstrating that players should be able to adapt to adverse weather conditions, and have the capability of playing on a less than perfect surface.
Derby County used to play European ties on a knee deep quagmire of Baseball Ground mud, Arsenal v Swindon at Wembley in a League Cup final on a pitch ripped to shreds by the Horse Of The Year Show, patched up with more sand than you'd find on Blackpool beach.
Infinitely more absorbing than watching any team coached by Jose Mourinho playing boring keep-ball on a pitch more resembling a bowling green.
Three cheers for Leicester City and Ipswich Town for adapting to the conditions and providing a refreshing change from the sanitised version of the beautiful game to which we are all too often subjected.
Carlos Tevez, Wayne Rooney, Cristiano Ronaldo - shame on you all! Try playing proper football, where 'it's the same for both sides.'
And nary a WAG to be seen. Nor a fucking vuvuzela to be heard.
Not that Blatter would have approved. The prick.
RIP Ralph Coates.
More as we get it.*
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