Saturday 25th October 1986. First Division. Upton Park, Att: 24,141
West Ham United 1 (1) (Cottee 44) Charlton Athletic 3 (2) (Melrose 9 seconds, Walsh 37, Pearson 76)
West Ham United: Parkes, Stewart, Parris, Gale, Hilton, Devonshire (Keen 78), Ward, Goddard, Dickens, Cottee, Orr.
Charlton Athletic: Johns, Humphrey, Reid, Peake, Thompson, Shirtliff, Lee, Stuart, Melrose, Aizlewood, Walsh (Pearson 46).
Referee: Roger Milford, Bristol.
Fastest goal: A misdirected pass from Gale to Lee led to Melrose scoring in just 9 seconds - the fastest recorded goal in Charlton's history.
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Sat in the Chicken Run seats for this one and couldn't help leaping up for the Melrose goal. Got away with it (probably because they thought I wasn't worth it!)
They got one back before we wrapped it up through John Pearson`s tap in to cap a superb day for Charlton.
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i'm sure we've talked about this game before on here
it took pearson an eternity to score the last goal he was like a horse struggling to run up the hill near the end of the grand national , his legs were all over the shop
can recall a coin or two coming into our section from the cheeky cockney boys
was it this game or another around that time with west ham, when a horse done a bolt of from a policeman and we all started singing goodbye horse
See the crowd was only 24k. What would we have taken to Upton Park in those days?
and e-cafc is right re our numbers which for us was maaaasive!
Date Opponents H / A Result
30 August 1986 Charlton Athletic H 0 – 1 37,544 Position 21st
pretty sure that was the game a policeman's helmet was getting chucked about in our end.
As has been related above we scored after 9 seconds.As I have said I was the only one of a party of about 6 or 7 who had come out to watch the football so when we scored I not only jumped up but ran up and down in the row of empty seats.Rather like the jasper carrot sketch I needed someone to communicate with the crowd to the effect"look I am punching his face".Fortunately for me Frank Mcavenie and Jenny Blyth came out to sit down and everyone forgot about me and spent the rest of the game ogling Jenny Blyth.
I didnt cheer when our other goals went in just in case!
Went to the game with GuinnessAddick and a WHam mate of ours. So he wouldn't be on his own, we said we'd sit with him and got tickets in the main stand, as close to the away end (so we'd be near our own fans).
We'd only been there a few minutes when it became obvious that this was also home to a bunch of Neanderthals - probably locals from The Queens!!
G and I decided sitting there would be a mare, so we left our mate and had a word with a steward. WHam had a tunnel from that stand through to the away end and we were let through. Just got to the top of the stairs and onto the terrace as the game kicked off & Nelse scored. We went absolutely mental...as did the WHam fans where we'd just come from!!!
Happy days!