Too Foggy to Play

[ThreeCards]

http://www.football365.com/story/0,17033,8652_3139381,00.html

Just wonder if any of you have ever called or postponed a game because of fog. I've played and officiated on some spring mornings where you could not see but a quarter of the field, but never seen a game called off because of fog alone. It seems to me that it would have to be pretty bad to be a big enough safety issue so as not to play.

JB

[falcon.7]

The link didn't work for me...

I can't see (pun intended) what the danger is playing in fog, although we do postpone/shorten games for darkness. Awhile back in the (EPL?) there was a game where you couldn't see the goal from the corner flag it was so foggy. On corner kicks everyone would mill about, move around when they heard the ball being kicked, and then scramble as it suddenly appeared through the fog. Great fun!

Now that I think of it, I wonder how the referee saw the flags for offside?

[erictheking]

I thought if the linesman couldn't see to the other side of the pitch then you'd be able to call the game off. I suppose you'd treat it the same as if the pitch was waterlogged or covered in snow.

[ctsoccer13]

I think this is the link: http://www.kentonline.co.uk/sport/default.asp?article_id=38397

[NHRef]

i was taught if you can't see goal to goal, then its to foggy to be fair so call the game.

[Doug the Ref]

A couple of years ago, Missouri High School Boy's Championship was being held at the Anheuser Busch Soccer park, (adjacent to the Meremec River), and the fog was so bad that you couldn't wee the game from the stands. Camera views were worthless. The field level was better, but once the ball was lifted into the air, it was lost. The game was not delayed. (You know, deadlines and all.)

[campbed]

Wow, what a small world.

Here in New Hampshire, we also have an Anheuser Busch plant, with on site soccer complex, adjacent to a Merrimack river. If you spelled your river correctly, at least they are pronounced the same. Ha!

The only games I've abondoned there were due to lightening, and in one case, a 3x5 trench two feet deep full of water and nasty looking pipes one yard from a corner flag. (aw come on ref, it's off the field of play...)

[Doug the Ref]

The Anheuser Busch Soccer Park is a Soccer Park and Conference Center. It has 2 turf fields, 2 stadium fields with bleachers and one field no bleachers. No manufacturing facility there, except for the spiket that makes by Budweiser flow.

The river is spelled corectly. Probably a different but related Indian Tribe who moved west.

[nonya]

Chicago Bears v. Philadelphia Eagles...

God I still hurt from that one.

[DerbyRam54]

If it gets really bad and you do pack it in, don't let this happen...:)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Bartram