Few things beat the giddy excitement of seeing an orange ball in snow“Why have you got a set of orange footballs?” asked my son as we went through my Subbuteo collection. In an era when you can seemingly buy any colour of ball you want, the significance of an orange ball appears to have bypassed a whole generation of fans. For them, the sight of an orange ball on a snow-covered pitch would probably be met with apathy. A succession of increasingly mild winters during the 1980s, coupled with improvements in under-soil heating, made the need for a “snow” ball all but redundant. Facebook Twitter Pinterest An orange ball made an appearance during Chelsea’s Cup Winners’ Cup tie at Tromso in 1997.

Source: The Guardian January 04, 2018 12:34 UTC