WITH three home games postponed in a month, this season feels like no other for City fans.

The pitch and drainage revamp at Valley Parade scheduled for this summer cannot come quick enough.

But the weather gods have always been feared opponents down the years.

Here, thanks to the memories of the fans, are some of the weird and wonderful occasions when Mother Nature has taken centre stage.

SWINDON 3 CITY 0

(match abandoned)

January 16, 1988

Terry Dolan’s promotion-chasing Bantams were taking a 3-0 spanking at the County Ground when the fog rolled in to engulf Wiltshire.

Referee David Elleray took the teams off with 18 minutes to go and, despite fierce protests from the home side, then abandoned proceedings.

City did their bit to help force his hand by throwing off their kit and jumping in the team bath ready to go home.

The game was rescheduled – and City came back down to earn a 2-2 draw.

OXFORD v CITY (Checkatrade Trophy, postponed)

January 24, 2016

City and their 70 travelling fans made a pointless midweek journey to frozen Oxford last season for a game called off just eight minutes before kick-off.

Referee Dean Whitestone’s decision to hang on so long bemused those at the Kassam – especially the players who had noticed the rock-hard surface when they arrived an hour and a half before.

“Why wait until it’s gone 7.30pm?” argued Stuart McCall. “It’s not like the sun is going to come out.”

CITY 1 CRYSTAL PALACE 1 (match abandoned)

October 24, 1998

Mr Burns was as popular in Bradford as he is in Springfield after deciding the show would go on despite hours of torrential rain.

Standing water on the pitch made decent football impossible as Clinton Morrison took advantage of the ball sticking under Wayne Jacobs’ feet to fire the visitors ahead.

Isaiah Rankin’s equaliser just before the break allowed referee Bill Burns to save face and abandon proceedings at half-time with the scores level. But it should never have started.

“It was football, but not as we know it,” said the brief match report in the Telegraph & Argus.

CITY 2 PRESTON 1 (FA Cup)

December 2, 1995

Wayne Jacobs will always remember the second-round tie at Valley Parade as the only time in his career when he scored twice.

His double included an overhead kick – but those in the Kop didn’t even know about it.

The fog was so thick for the televised game, they could not see what was going on at the Bradford End as Jacobs athletically scored inside the penalty area.

Jacobs said: “It was a real pea souper. But it was a goal I’ll never forget.”

PLYMOUTH 0 CITY 1

(match abandoned)

February 17, 1976

Referee Ron Crabb needed medical help in the players’ tunnel because of the cold from an arctic blast that swept through the south west.

The game was called off amid a blizzard with City hanging on to a lead scored by new signing David Niven.

Snow blocked the roads out of the city and the away fans had to be billeted in naval barracks overnight.

CITY 1 NEWCASTLE 6 (FA Cup)

March 7, 1963

The Big Freeze of 1963 was one of the coldest winters on record with temperatures across the country permanently in minus figures.

The snow and ice wreaked havoc with the football schedule and only three of the FA Cup third-round games went ahead on the scheduled date of January 5.

City tried seven times to get their home tie on against Newcastle – and finally played in March when they were thumped 6-1, full back Brian Kelly scoring their goal.

CITY v SOUTHEND (postponed)

December 12, 2015

Southend fan Andrew Urry flew 10,207 miles to watch his beloved side take on City at Valley Parade – only for the game to be called off at lunchtime because of a waterlogged pitch.

The Brisbane-based supporter heard the news just as he drew up in a coach outside the ground.

Southend gave him a signed ball for his troubles.