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3. A game at Highbury which I think was in the FA Cup. Arsenal beat us on a freezing cold day, and when we got on the train it was announced that the heating system had broken. The journey back was like sitting in a fridge..
That would be the 1979 'winter of discontent' when it snowed very heavily on New Years Day (which PP'D out home game with Sheff U) and kept on snowing for weeks on end, I remember it well because we couldn't play football at school for what seemed like an absolute eternity, the playground was under a solid block of thick ice. Notts only got to play three league games before we got to March. In the FA Cup 3rd round Arsenal were playing at Sheff Wed and the locals bombarded Pat Jennings with snowballs which delayed the start of the 2nd half. Owls boss Jack Charlton went over to appeal to them to stop but they snowballed him as well.
Footage here....
https://youtu.be/YK0HkGEPmxI?t=321
That tie ended up going to a 4th replay, only being completed five days before Arsenal played Notts in the 4th round.