1950: Phil Warman born. Started as a left winger, but soon converted to left back. Warman was at Charlton for twelve seasons and in that time played 364 games and scored 20 goals. He played in the 1975 promotion game against Preston and in the 1981 promotion game at Brunton Park. He is the same height as Chris Solly. A rare early sighting of PW without the trademark tache.
1905: First ever newspaper report regarding Charlton Athletic. The Kentish Independent reported that Silvertown Wesley were defeated 6-0 the previous Saturday. 1923: First match at The Mount, Catford. Bore draw against Northampton.
1952: Tony (Terence) Young born. One goal in 22 appearances before having to move back up north. 1955: Charlton 3 Bolton 1. A hat-trick from Jimmy Gauld on the last time that we played on Christmas eve. Rumours that this was also the last time that we beat a Bolton side are untrue. 1978: Souleymane Diawara born. A very expensive purchase from Iain Dowie at £3,712,000. One of the few Dowie signings to have any signs of class about him, but things never worked out and he was off to Bordeaux just 12 months and 26 appearances later. 2006: Les Reed replaced by Alan Pardew. Reed has meen manager for just 41 days and managed just one win in seven games. It was very sad as he was clearly a dedicated Charlton man. We lost a good coach and he lost his job. He is now Executive Director at Southampton. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-425234/Reed-lifts-lid-Charlton-sacking.html http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/9149611.Reed_made_director_at_Saints/
1937: Match against Chelsea at Stamford bridge was abandoned on 61 minutes due to fog. Legend has it that both teams had returned to their dressing rooms when a policeman spotted Bartram still in his goal unaware that it had ended. 1943: Clapton Orient 1 Charlton 7
Charlton's overall record on Christmas day is very good. Won 12 (not including the Clapton game, above); Drawn 7; Lost just 3. Maybe it's time to revisit this tradition ;-)
1929: 4-0 Away win at Molyneux (Horton, Lennox, Wyper 2). A more remarkable result than the scoreline suggests as Charlton played for 40 minutes with ten men after Tom Pritchard broke his leg. 1951: Tony Pawson makes his Charlton debut, still as an amateur, as Charlton beat Spurs 3-2 at White Hart Lane. 1960: Beat Plymouth 6-4 (Edwards 2, Leary, Townsend, Summers 2). 1999: Beat Palace 2-1 with goals from Salako and Pringle. The start of a club record 12 consecutive victories. 2003: Charlton 4 (Hriedarsson, Holland, Johansson, Euell) Chelsea 2. Charlton's fastest Premiership goal scored in 42 seconds by Herman Hriedarsson. 2011: Last minute winner for Danny Green as Charlton beat Yeovil 3-2. Hollands and Kermorgant got the earlier goals.
1947: Ronald Willis born. In his debut match he collided with Paul Went, was taken to hospital with abdominal injuries and never played for us again. 1955: Charlton 3 Man Utd 0 (Gauld, Jones o.g., Ryan). “We won this match with as brilliant a display as we have ever revealed”, Jimmy Seed. 1975: Chelsea 2 Charlton 3 (Warman, Hales 2) 1983: Charlton 1 Palace 0 (Hales)
1984: Chris Dickson born. A £35k purchase from Dulwich Hamlet. Just two goals in 29 appearances (many as sub though) and the gamble hadn't quite played off. His latest club is AEL Limassol (now managed by Jorge Costa) who last year won the Cypriot First division. Chris is far too shy to talk about it though ;-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P940xjhoNg 1989: Harry Arter born. Just one appearance for the former Charlton academy lad, coming on as an 86th minute sub for Todorov away to Luton in 2007. Arter now plays for Bournemouth. 2001: Everton 0 Charlton 3 (Stuart, Euell, Konchesky)
2000: Man City 1 Charlton 4. Two for Johansson, a Stuart penalty and a freak deflection for Claus. Poor old Nick Weaver ;-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwtFQVVDCwk 2006: Charlton 2 Aston Villa 1. Both goals were headers. One from Darren Bent and then a last minute winner from Hughes.
1921: Alfred "Scotty" Kingsley played his last game for Charlton, a 1-0 victory over Millwall Athletic at The Den. He had played 20 matches in the Football League for Charlton, but had actually represented the club many more times than that having been an Addick since 1912. He only agreed to a £1,550 transfer to Fulham as the club was threatened with closure over an outstanding dept to Humphrey's the builders. Without Kingsley, it is possible that Charlton Athletic might not have existed anyway, as it was him that requested the club be re-formed after WW1. 2010: New owners for Charlton, CAFC Holdings Ltd. In their first two years we have seen the appointment of Chris Powell as manager, a wholesale change of the playing squad, promotion to the Championship and improvements around the ground such as the new badge in Harvey Gardens. It is even rumoured that action may have been taken to improve the potholes in the car park. Despite all this though there's still room for misgivings because of the extraordinary levels of secrecy. Anything that is "known" about the new board is largely a matter of conjecture. Nothing has been officially confirmed as to who the new owners are, what their long term intentions are or how much money they have.
1956: Sam Bartram plays his last ever game for Charlton who beat Arsenal 2-0 (Gauld 2). At 42 years and 47 days, he is the oldest player to ever play for the first team. 1998: Charlton 3 Middlesborough 0 (Newton 2, Bright) The crowd, 15,729, was the highest at The Valley for 18 years.
That result v Boro coming just days after the demolition of Forest had me convinced we'd be there or thereabouts at the end of the season.
1921: Charlton's first ever Football League match. A 1-0 victory over Exeter City at The Valley in front of 13,000 fans. Tommy Dowling scores Charlton's first ever league goal.
27 August 1921 (96 years ago)
A notable day in our history and what better way to celebrate than with an away win at Rotherham! We were in Dividion Three (South) in those days.
The Daily Express reported:
Charlton deserved their victory but the team has yet to settle down. The forwards have not the necessary cohesion to win with regularity.
1934: Sam Bartram signs for Charlton. 1953: Charlton 8 (O'Linn 2, Firmani 3, Hurst 2, Leary) Middlesbrough 1. Club record League Victory. Jimmy Seed: “The forwards were rampant and towards the end, they were unstoppable”. 1956: Jimmy Trotter appointed manager.
Another wow day to look back on. Charlton 8 Middlesbrough 1. The Addicks went behind through a fifth minute goal then delighted the 23,790 crowd with a feast of attacking football. Charlton scored six goals in the final 26 minutes.
1992: From 3-0 down, Charlton beat Newcastle 4-3 at St James' Park. Barness, Walsh (2) and Pardew getting the goals.
Charlton's greatest comeback in an away league match with a stunning finale. The struggling Magpies raced out of the blocks and, after just 34 minutes led 3-0, with victory surely inevitable. But a fine strike from left-back Anthony Barness before half-time gave Charlton a sniff. After the break, the Addicks poured forward. On 73, Colin Walsh mad 3-2 and then, three minutes later, grabbed an equaliser. In the final minute, Alan Pardew scored with a deflected effort to complete a mighty victory.
"Charlton Athletic on this Day" by Matthew Eastley
1938: Record attendance at The Valley, 75,031 for Charlton v Aston Villa. Oddly, we know that Villa scored first in the 28th minute, but the time of George Robinson's equaliser seems to be unknown. 1994: Oxford 0 Charlton 4 (Leaburn 2, Pardew pen, Nelson). 2003: Paul Konchesky's England debut. Aussies win 3-1.
In years gone by the FA Cup was always guaranteed to add a few thousand to the gate, but no-one could have predicted the number of fans who would attend the fifth round tie against Aston Villa on this day at The Valley. An astonishing 75,031 people packed into the ground, including an estimated 10,000 from the Midlands, setting a new record for the ground which stands to this day. Unfortunately, Charlton were below par and the match proved to be a niggle, bad-tempered affair with both sides guilty of strong arm tactics. Villa went ahead following a deft header from Frank She'll on 28 minutes and it wasn't until the 81st that Charlton equalised through George Robinson.
It comes from Charlton Athletic on this Day by Matthew Eastley
I don't know whether it was me or my ageing iPad but I had trouble posting this item and the book and another paragraph got omitted.
Nearly 20 years later a crowd of similar size watched the Addicks travel to Goodison Park for a fourth round replay with Everton. It was 1-1 after 90 minutes but the Toffees went into overdrive in extra time and won 4-1. Liverpool was engulfed in thick fog for the match and Charlton Manager Jimmy Trotter said "The players appeared to have difficulty in distinguishing the different-coloured shirts"
23rd February
Generally a bummer of a day for Charlton. We have lost our last six matches on this day and haven't won since 1953. Our most notable win was in 1929 when we beat Bournemouth and Boscombe 6-2.
Thought this was worth bringing up. The trend has sort of continued hasn’t it.
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1957: THE greatest footballing comeback ever; bar none. From 5-1 down with 10 men to winning 7-6 (Summers 5, Ryan 2).
http://www.espn.co.uk/football/sport/story/127312.html#
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/story/0,,562527,00.html
1905: First ever newspaper report regarding Charlton Athletic. The Kentish Independent reported that Silvertown Wesley were defeated 6-0 the previous Saturday.
1923: First match at The Mount, Catford. Bore draw against Northampton.
Only two wins on this date, both 1-0 at The Valley:
1933: v Aldershot (Wilkinson)
2000: v Everton (Svensson)
1952: Tony (Terence) Young born. One goal in 22 appearances before having to move back up north.
1955: Charlton 3 Bolton 1. A hat-trick from Jimmy Gauld on the last time that we played on Christmas eve. Rumours that this was also the last time that we beat a Bolton side are untrue.
1978: Souleymane Diawara born. A very expensive purchase from Iain Dowie at £3,712,000. One of the few Dowie signings to have any signs of class about him, but things never worked out and he was off to Bordeaux just 12 months and 26 appearances later.
2006: Les Reed replaced by Alan Pardew. Reed has meen manager for just 41 days and managed just one win in seven games. It was very sad as he was clearly a dedicated Charlton man. We lost a good coach and he lost his job. He is now Executive Director at Southampton.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-425234/Reed-lifts-lid-Charlton-sacking.html
http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/9149611.Reed_made_director_at_Saints/
1937: Match against Chelsea at Stamford bridge was abandoned on 61 minutes due to fog. Legend has it that both teams had returned to their dressing rooms when a policeman spotted Bartram still in his goal unaware that it had ended.
1943: Clapton Orient 1 Charlton 7
Charlton's overall record on Christmas day is very good. Won 12 (not including the Clapton game, above); Drawn 7; Lost just 3. Maybe it's time to revisit this tradition ;-)
Sam, still unaware that the game is over.
1929: 4-0 Away win at Molyneux (Horton, Lennox, Wyper 2). A more remarkable result than the scoreline suggests as Charlton played for 40 minutes with ten men after Tom Pritchard broke his leg.
1951: Tony Pawson makes his Charlton debut, still as an amateur, as Charlton beat Spurs 3-2 at White Hart Lane.
1960: Beat Plymouth 6-4 (Edwards 2, Leary, Townsend, Summers 2).
1999: Beat Palace 2-1 with goals from Salako and Pringle. The start of a club record 12 consecutive victories.
2003: Charlton 4 (Hriedarsson, Holland, Johansson, Euell) Chelsea 2. Charlton's fastest Premiership goal scored in 42 seconds by Herman Hriedarsson.
2011: Last minute winner for Danny Green as Charlton beat Yeovil 3-2. Hollands and Kermorgant got the earlier goals.
1947: Ronald Willis born. In his debut match he collided with Paul Went, was taken to hospital with abdominal injuries and never played for us again.
1955: Charlton 3 Man Utd 0 (Gauld, Jones o.g., Ryan). “We won this match with as brilliant a display as we have ever revealed”, Jimmy Seed.
1975: Chelsea 2 Charlton 3 (Warman, Hales 2)
1983: Charlton 1 Palace 0 (Hales)
1986: Charlton 5 (Walsh 2, Melrose, Shirtliff, Shipley) Man City 0.
1999: Huddersfield 1 Charlton 2 (Hunt, Robinson) The start of six consecutive away wins.
2001: Charlton 2 (El Karkouri, Hreidersson) Everton 0
1984: Chris Dickson born. A £35k purchase from Dulwich Hamlet. Just two goals in 29 appearances (many as sub though) and the gamble hadn't quite played off. His latest club is AEL Limassol (now managed by Jorge Costa) who last year won the Cypriot First division. Chris is far too shy to talk about it though ;-)
1989: Harry Arter born. Just one appearance for the former Charlton academy lad, coming on as an 86th minute sub for Todorov away to Luton in 2007. Arter now plays for Bournemouth.
2001: Everton 0 Charlton 3 (Stuart, Euell, Konchesky)
2000: Man City 1 Charlton 4. Two for Johansson, a Stuart penalty and a freak deflection for Claus. Poor old Nick Weaver ;-)
2006: Charlton 2 Aston Villa 1. Both goals were headers. One from Darren Bent and then a last minute winner from Hughes.
1921: Alfred "Scotty" Kingsley played his last game for Charlton, a 1-0 victory over Millwall Athletic at The Den. He had played 20 matches in the Football League for Charlton, but had actually represented the club many more times than that having been an Addick since 1912. He only agreed to a £1,550 transfer to Fulham as the club was threatened with closure over an outstanding dept to Humphrey's the builders. Without Kingsley, it is possible that Charlton Athletic might not have existed anyway, as it was him that requested the club be re-formed after WW1.
2010: New owners for Charlton, CAFC Holdings Ltd. In their first two years we have seen the appointment of Chris Powell as manager, a wholesale change of the playing squad, promotion to the Championship and improvements around the ground such as the new badge in Harvey Gardens. It is even rumoured that action may have been taken to improve the potholes in the car park. Despite all this though there's still room for misgivings because of the extraordinary levels of secrecy. Anything that is "known" about the new board is largely a matter of conjecture. Nothing has been officially confirmed as to who the new owners are, what their long term intentions are or how much money they have.
A notable day in our history and what better way to celebrate than with an away win at Rotherham! We were in Dividion Three (South) in those days.
The Daily Express reported:
Charlton deserved their victory but the team has yet to settle down. The forwards have not the necessary cohesion to win with regularity.
Blimey.
"Charlton Athletic on this Day" by Matthew Eastley
I don't know whether it was me or my ageing iPad but I had trouble posting this item and the book and another paragraph got omitted.
Nearly 20 years later a crowd of similar size watched the Addicks travel to Goodison Park for a fourth round replay with Everton. It was 1-1 after 90 minutes but the Toffees went into overdrive in extra time and won 4-1. Liverpool was engulfed in thick fog for the match and Charlton Manager Jimmy Trotter said "The players appeared to have difficulty in distinguishing the different-coloured shirts"