Norwich once attempted to defrost their pitch with flamethrowers

The ice and sleet of winter can infer to be football's fiercest adversaries during times (well, second fiercest at a back of FIFA) -- so fierce which it has even driven groundsmen to use video diversion weapons to fight them.

In reply to a question about a gossip which Blackpool once thawed out their representation with a flamethrower during a horrific winter of 1962-63, a Guardian clarifies:

[I]t was essentially Norwich who attempted, unsuccessfully, to defrost their playing surface with fire. Their scheduled FA Cup third-round tie during home to Blackpool had been deferred eleven times, and, as a same piece of archive reveals, they were willing to try only about anything by a end. "In an attempt to get a diversion played, a Carrow Road representation was treated with flamethrowers upon 22 January [1963] as, according to a Norwich spokesman, 'a last unfortunate effort'. However they 'served no purpose whatsoever' for 'as quick as a ice melted it froze again'. An icebreaker was additionally used though it as well valid ineffective."

Flamethrower contra regenerating demon ice? Why was this battle not recorded?!

Sure, it sounds silly and if it had defeated a ice, it probably would have set a representation ablaze, though in integrity to whoever had this overwhelming idea, who among us wouldn't bust out a flamethrowers for a match which had been deferred eleven times? There's only so most a person can take before he starts shooting glow out of gun and shouting like a maniac.

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