1963 was a football season when the early part of the year was devastated by snow and ice. I remember playing ice football on the River Arun floodplain, a short walk from our rock hard playing fields at Rectory Close. The ball, a lump of ice. It wasn't foolish as the water was only a few inches thick away from the main river channel.
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On January 5th 1963 only 3 out of the 32 FA Cup ties were played and the last tie of this round was not completed until March 11th. Lincoln City v Coventry City was postponed 15 times. 14 other ties in that round suffered from 10 or more postponements. The BIG FREEZE lasted 3 months after Christmas.
The longest time for a fixture in Britain to be postponed was in the Scottish FA Cup Round 2 when the Inverness Thistle v Falkirk due to be played on January 6th 1979 suffered 29 postponements up to 22nd February which Falkirk eventually won 4-0. Three days later Falkirk had a Third Round to play against Dundee who beat Falkirk at the first attempt 1-0.
Spurs v Everton in the old Division One was postponed after a snow fall on November 29th 1969. On the 17th December they abandoned the game due to a floodlight failure. They planned to play the game on Wednesday, January 7th 1970, but had a cup replay to play instead and by March 3rd 1970 the game was eventually played having had three different programmes. Spurs lost 0-1!
Three days they played again at Everton's Goodison Park in the return fixture and Spurs lost that 2-3.
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