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FOOTBALL PROGRAMMES
A Pictorial History
Steve Marsh & Stuart Allen
Postponed & Abandoned ...
1994-95 to Present
1994-95
CRAWLEY TOWN (Springheath Print Capital League)
5 December 1994
Town Mead - Rained off
Rearranged 28 April 1996
HEART of MIDLOTHIAN (First XI - Mick Dunne Benefit)
14 December 1994
Victoria Road, Dagenham FC - Abandoned at half-time floodlight failure
Not rearranged
SOUTHAMPTON (First XI)
21 January 1995
The Dell - Rained off shortly after West Ham team arrived at ground
Rearranged 15 March 1995
QUEENS PARK RANGERS (First XI)
22 February 1995
Upton Park - Waterlogged Pitch
Rearranged 3 May 1995
BRISTOL CITY (Reserves)
7 March 1995
Upton Park - Reason ????
8 April 1995
Floodlight failure ruins Mick Dunne's benefit game and a waterlogged pitch puts a damper on the fixture against Queens Park Rangers at Upton Park
1995-96
TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR (Reserves) No Programme Issued
27 November 1995
St Albans City FC - Waterlogged pitch
Rearranged: 23 April 1996
PORTSMOUTH (Reserves)
5 December 1995
Upton Park - Portsmouth team snowbound on the motorway
Rearranged: 29 March 1996
COVENTRY CITY (First XI)
26 December 1995
Upton Park - Frost, Skating Rink Pitch
Rearranged: 31 January 1996
NEWCASTLE UNITED (First XI)
31 December 1995
Upton Park - Frozen Pitch
Rearranged: 21 February 1996
GRIMSBY TOWN (First XI - Littlewoods FA Cup 4th Round)
27 January 1996
Upton Park - Unplayable pitch
Rearranged: 7 February 1996
Portsmouth players were snowbound
on the motorway
1996-97
WIMBLEDON (First XI)
26 December 1996
Selhurst Park - Icy Conditions
Rearranged: 18 March 1997
WREXHAM (First XI - FA Cup 3rd Round replay)
15 January 1997
Upton Park - Fog
Rearranged: 25 January 1997
NEWCASTLE UNITED (First XI)
19 February 1997
Upton Park - Waterlogged Pitch
Rearranged: 6 May 1997
Fog decends on Upton Park for this FA Cup Third Round replay fixture
1997-98
CRYSTAL PALACE (First XI)
3 November 1997
Upton Park - Match Abandoned 2-2 Floodlight Failure
Rearranged: 3 December 1997
QUEENS PARK RANGERS (South East Counties League)
8 November 1997
Chadwell Heath - QPR injury crisis - unable to field a team
Rearranged: 25 April 1998
FULHAM (South East Counties League)
3 January 1998
Chadwell Heath - Waterlogged Pitch
Rearranged: 2 May 1998
TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR (FA Premier Youth League)
17 January 1998
Chadwell Heath - Reason ????
Rearranged: 6 April 1998
Frank Lampard had just struck an equaliser for West Ham United against Crystal Palace when the floodlights at Upton Park failed, plunging the ground into darkness and forcing the abandonment of the game.
As football fans in east London cursed their luck, 6,500 miles away in Malaysia members of an Asian betting syndicate celebrated a six-figure payout.
The syndicate had "arranged" for the lights to go out, they repeated their scam during a Wimbledon v. Arsenal game. But, when they tried for a third time, at a Charlton v. Liverpool match, their plan was foiled. The security guard who had been bribed to trip the electrics using a remote control told a colleague of the plan and he alerted the police. Four men – two Malaysians, a Chinese man and the Charlton security supervisor were subsequently jailed for between 18 months and four years.
2000-01
ARSENAL (FA Premier Youth Under-17)
28 October 2000
Chadwell Heath - Waterlogged Pitch
Rearranged: 9 December 2000
ARSENAL (FA Premier Youth Under-17)
9 December 2000 (This rearranged game was also Postponed)
Chadwell Heath - Waterlogged Pitch
Rearranged: 31 March 2001
CHELSEA (First XI)
30 December 2000
Upton Park - Frozen Pitch (Match called off at 1pm)
Rearranged 7 March 2001
BRISTOL CITY (FA Premier Youth Academy Under-19)
20 January 2001
Chadwell Heath - Bad Weather
Rearranged: 2 April 2001 at Rush Green
SOUTHAMPTON (Reserves) No Programme Issued
28 March 2001
The Dell - Waterlogged Pitch
Rearranged: 16 May 2001
Both the original date and the re-arranged Under-17 fixtures against Arsenal were called off due to a waterlogged pitch
2001-02
ASTON VILLA (FA Premier Youth Academy Under-17)
2 February 2002
Rush Green - Reason ????
Rearranged: 5 March 2002
2002-03
COVENTRY CITY (FA Premier Youth Academy Under-19)
2 October 2002
Little Heath - Reason ????
Rearranged: 2 November 2002 (Programme re-issued)
CHARLTON ATHLETIC (First XI)
1 January 2003
The Valley - Heavy Rain
Rearranged: 22 January 2003
Coventry City
FA Premier Youth Academy Under-19
Charlton Athletic
Premier League
2004-05
CHELSEA (FA Premier Youth Academy Under-18)
5 March 2005
Upton Park - Reason ????
Rearranged: 19 March 2005
2005-06
WATFORD (FA Premier Youth Academy Under-18)
21 November 2005
Boreham Wood FC - Reason ????
Rearranged: 8 April 2006 (Game switched to London Colney)
CHELSEA (Reserves)
1 March 2006
Home game played at Glyn Hopkins Stadium : Frost
Rearranged: 2 May 2006
2009-10
WERDER BREMEN : Germany (First XI Pre-season Friendly) No Official Programmes - only Pirate copies
18 July 2009
Thermenstadion, Bad Walterdorf - Torrential Rain
Not rearranged
WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS (First XI)
10 January 2010
Upton Park - Icy Pavements around Upton Park, Local Authority Advice
Rearranged: 23 March 2010
2011-12
ALDERSHOT TOWN (First XI - League Cup)
9 August 2011
Upton Park - London Riots, postponed on Police Advice
Rearranged: 24 August 2011
PETERBOROUGH UNITED (First XI)
11 February 2012
London Road - Snow
Rearranged: 27 March 2012
West Ham United were asked by the police to postpone the Carling Cup first-round tie with Aldershot Town
The club were contacted the evening before the game was due to take place and told that all major public events in London were to be rearranged because of the need to focus police resources elsewhere. Whilst neither the club or police anticipate any issues around the game taking place, the club had to comply with the police request.
The Club confirmed that Matchday programmes would not be sold to the general public and that all copies were being destroyed.
As we now know a handful escaped the destruction order which immediately catapults this programme into the most wanted West Ham United Home programme of the last Decade.
2012-13
BRAINTREE TOWN (Development Squad Under-21)
10 September 2012
Amlin Stadium - Abandoned Floodlight Failure
Not Rearranged
2018-19
ARSENAL (PL2 - Division One)
4 February 2019
Meadow Park, Boreham Wood FC - Abandoned Half-time Fog
Rearranged: 29 March 2019
2019-20
MANCHESTER CITY (First XI)
9 February 2020
Etihad Stadium - Adverse weather conditions
Rearranged: 19 February 2020
Match programme re-issued
As requested....
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Version 15 - updated 20 June 2020
