With the Beast from the East’s little brother effecting fixtures the length and breath of the English leagues on Saturday,
Stoke City’s game against Everton, though the players were able to save Opta a job by providing their own tracking statistics…
The fluttering snow was almost enough to make Charlie Adam’s sending-off seem ethereal and poetic…
Indeed, it was so cold it actually snowed indoors at the Bet365 Stadium…
Welcome to Stoke City, where it snows indoors. pic.twitter.com/dFZyapceY0
— Ben Rowley (@Ben_Rowley56) March 17, 2018
Over on the other side of the Peak District, Huddersfield Town versus Crystal Palace quickly became a large scale game of ‘Spot the Ball’…
Bournemouth’s match against West Brom at the Vitality Stadium received just the lightest of dustings…
Manchester United had their work cut out in clearing the duvet of snow from the Old Trafford pitch…
Lo and behold, by the time kick-off came around, the surface was perfectly(ish) playable.
While the snowfall didn’t effect the Liverpool-Watford game, there were still enough flakes in the air on Saturday evening to give the Anfield floodlights a fairytale edge…
Such were the blizzard conditions at Bramall Lane, play actually had to be forcibly stopped during the second half of the Championship match between Sheffield United and Nottingham Forest so that the reddened lines could be cleared.
However, that was nothing compared to the view from the gantry at St Andrew’s, where Birmingham City (we think) were taking on Hull City (possibly)…
Photo: @BCFC/Twitter
And still thousands upon thousands of hardy supporters braved the frigid conditions to pile into stadiums across the country.
Different breed are football fans. Different breed.