Funnily enough two games from Selhurst Park, both 3-0 wins .Chelsea game mentioned above and Derby County with Shilton in goal for them Williams and Mortimer unplayable
The first home game of the 98-99 season when we caned Southampton 5-0 we looked great and the Premier League looked like it was going to be a cake walk...
The 6-0 at Barnsley was a great day out, but in terms of our best premier league performance I will always remember beating Liverpool 3-2 with the Lisbe Hattrick, maybe it was rose tinted spectacles but I thought we were untouchable
Playoff final '98 epitomised Curbs' Charlton that never gave up but I'll have to go for beating Chelsea 4-2 at home, probably by the best Charlton team I've seen as well.
Not sure about a single game because there would be too many for me to recall but there was one period of games in 1972 when we seemed invincible at home.
Between the 29th August and 2nd December that year, our home record was:
P10 W9 D1 L0 F29 A6
These matches included the evening 6-0 and 6-1 demolitions of Swansea and Notts County respectively.
I can't recall wanting to watch us play as much as I did as a teenager at that time. Sadly I'm not sure that desire will ever come back.
The one that popped into my head was 1-4 at Walsall during our promotion year, when we could even afford to laugh at Pringle running the length of the pitch only to miss from ten yards.
That game stuck out for me strangely, we literally were too good for that league.
Another strange one which stuck for me was the play off year, towards end of season we beat wolves, only 1-0 at home but fck me it was so easy, I remember saying to my dad after that as he didn't go, 'dad, we really are a great side at the moment' I could never recall us looking a league above a half decent side as we did in that 1-0 win. It probably wasn't even shots on target, it's the fact we were in total control and never ever looked liked conceding.
When we beat Chelsea 1-0 at Stamford Bridge when I think Bartlett scored. It wasn't spectacular, but the work-rate, control and organisation were so good that I still vividly remember sitting there thinking, 'We're beating Chelsea away and it's so easy'.
The thing about the 4-2 game agaisnt Chelsea... They had just been bought by abramovich, ranieri had bought all these expensive players, even shit ones like Veron, and the tide of the premiership had properly turned into the haves and the have yachts... The script was oooh look at Chelski isn't this marvelous... We have them a F***ING kicking. Di canio ran them ragged for JJs goal... My fave was Euell's from a defensive fluff right in front of me... even match of the day had lined up the usual crap for their feature games and had to put the Charlton goals on first, but only the goals. If you support a team like Charlton we get these wins once in a while, but when it happens, it's soooo sweet.
West Ham 4-0 against curbs west ham in our relegation season Liverpool 2-0 at home when they were European champs The west Bromwich Albion game where we just smacked their legs for 90 minutes and put 5 or 6 past them 3-0 against Middlesbrough in 98. Completely dominated them 11 against 11 everyone turned up Someone mentioned the Norwich game under Parkinson where Fraser forster was unbeatable. Great shout
But Chelsea at home humiliating them 4-2. That was the peak of modern era charlton athletic and sadly we started sliding not long after that game.
I think all my favourites have been covered, so I will chuck in Ipswich away in the 1998 playoff semi. The way we went at them from the off. The quite staggering Sasa Ilic save where he leapt and held a piledriver from Eric Gates that nearly every keeper would have palmed away for a corner. You saw the Ipswich players droop, realising that all the hype about this keeper from nowhere had a solid foundation. And Mills got sent off, but we just gathered ourselves and held on without a huge scare. That was the game where I started to really Believe - that something special was happening to my club that would eclipse anything I had known for the previous 30- odd years.
Lots been covered already but my favourite performance of the League One champions season was the 5-2 home win against Preston. Shame we let in those two goals in the last five minutes but up until then it was a walk in the park... 4-0 by half time and could've been many many more if we hadn't taken our foot off the gas in the second half.
People talking about the Sheffield games in January being the point at which they knew we had a special team that season. For me, that Preston game in early November was what convinced me we were more than just a decent team on a good run.
I think all my favourites have been covered, so I will chuck in Ipswich away in the 1998 playoff semi. The way we went at them from the off. The quite staggering Sasa Ilic save where he leapt and held a piledriver from Eric Gates that nearly every keeper would have palmed away for a corner. You saw the Ipswich players droop, realising that all the hype about this keeper from nowhere had a solid foundation. And Mills got sent off, but we just gathered ourselves and held on without a huge scare. That was the game where I started to really Believe - that something special was happening to my club that would eclipse anything I had known for the previous 30- odd years.
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Todorov was unplayable as a half time sub.
Ray Tracey scored the best goal have ever seen live.
Felt like a training game from Charlton that night we were so dominate
We could have had a couple more as we were literally queueing up for shooting practice.
I was at university pre-drinking and getting smashed.
Playoff final '98 epitomised Curbs' Charlton that never gave up but I'll have to go for beating Chelsea 4-2 at home, probably by the best Charlton team I've seen as well.
Between the 29th August and 2nd December that year, our home record was:
P10 W9 D1 L0 F29 A6
These matches included the evening 6-0 and 6-1 demolitions of Swansea and Notts County respectively.
I can't recall wanting to watch us play as much as I did as a teenager at that time. Sadly I'm not sure that desire will ever come back.
I could never recall us looking a league above a half decent side as we did in that 1-0 win. It probably wasn't even shots on target, it's the fact we were in total control and never ever looked liked conceding.
West Ham 4-0 against curbs west ham in our relegation season
Liverpool 2-0 at home when they were European champs
The west Bromwich Albion game where we just smacked their legs for 90 minutes and put 5 or 6 past them
3-0 against Middlesbrough in 98. Completely dominated them 11 against 11 everyone turned up
Someone mentioned the Norwich game under Parkinson where Fraser forster was unbeatable. Great shout
But Chelsea at home humiliating them 4-2. That was the peak of modern era charlton athletic and sadly we started sliding not long after that game.
People talking about the Sheffield games in January being the point at which they knew we had a special team that season. For me, that Preston game in early November was what convinced me we were more than just a decent team on a good run.