A nice hot bath, what better that to slip into one of these when your FA Cup tie is abandoned due to fog. In January 1927 Brentford were trailing 1-2 to Oldham Athletic when the ref called time as the fog engulfed the pitch after 73 minutes. Harry Curtis, the Brentford manager took his team to the dressing rooms and they started to have a hot bath/shower.
I'm using the bath theme because in those days baths were often the only form of having a clean up after a game and I am enjoying a deep bath like the one above (see the one below) in my luscious holiday let. But I need tweezers to get the plug out of the plug hole...small matter!
Minutes later the referee noticed that the fog had lifted, probably caused by the heat coming off the baths! and he suggested that the game would resume. Not for Harry, who was a bit of an expert on the human body, so he refused to let his boys re-start the game citing that the sudden change in temperature from hot bath to cold foggy afternoon would be unhealthy for them.
The ref had no leg to stand on...unlike the baths....so it was abandoned and replayed under nicer circumstances two days later and Brentford won 4-2.
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