Rain Is The Winner

OTD E0300 — 27 Aug 1960: Manchester City and Manchester United serve up four goals in 56 minutes at Maine Road. Then a thunderstorm turns the pitch into standing water. One of the world’s most celebrated referees, Arthur Ellis, stops the match, gets booed, leaves under police escort — and eventually abandons the derby at 2–2. We reconstruct the game, trace how football’s Laws have dealt with weather and abandoned matches, meet some wonderfully bizarre precedents, and discover what happened when City and United finally tried again six months later.

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