I was at the Womad festival in Wiltshire a couple of years ago and there was a fella with a Men In Black baseball cap with AFC2 - 4 CAFC on the back. I got chatting to him and he said most people thought the cap was about the film. He lived out that way.
I was at the Womad festival in Wiltshire a couple of years ago and there was a fella with a Men In Black baseball cap with AFC2 - 4 CAFC on the back. I got chatting to him and he said most people thought the cap was about the film. He lived out that way.
Jeez. Was that some sort of official merchandise? Am trying to work out in my mind whether it would be worse if it was home made.
I was at the Womad festival in Wiltshire a couple of years ago and there was a fella with a Men In Black baseball cap with AFC2 - 4 CAFC on the back. I got chatting to him and he said most people thought the cap was about the film. He lived out that way.
Jeez. Was that some sort of official merchandise? Am trying to work out in my mind whether it would be worse if it was home made.
It was professionally made I doubt it was "official" though
This is not quite on brief, but was telling this story to an old mate last night who was in Prague on Inter rail ticket. For such travel you really need to have the European Rail Timetable, which for over 100 years was published by Thomas Cook. They stopped it, but some new guys bought the rights and continue to publish it. I started a sub a couple of years ago. I got the auto email confirmation and then I got another mail. It said Dear Mr Hunt, I hope you don't mind me asking but are you by any chance Rick Hunt, with whom I used to go to Charlton away games in the 80s? I looked down at the name, sure enough, It was him.
so John Potter, the publisher of the European Rail Timetable, is a Charlton fan. Of course he is :-)
Donkeys years ago I was working in Southport on a Saturday and as full time approached I popped over to a Radio Rentals shop to watch the results come through on the teleprinter. There was one other bloke stood outside and as our result came in (a win) we both simultaneously punched the air and shouted yessssssss. We looked at each other in disbelief!
Got chatting to the bloke sat next to me on a flight back from Nairobi. Not only a Charlton supporter but also Scottish (as are my family) and he had worked for the same part of the Govermnment as me. A Charlton supporter I got chatting to on the train to Gatwick for the flight up to Boro had just got back from DRC - expected me not to know anything about the place but it turned out he had a beer the night before with the person I was dealing with at the Embassy. A waitress at Crawdaddy's in Pretoria asked if we had ever heard of Mark Fish as her brother had gone to the UK with him to watch the FA Cup final. That was the start of many Charlton-related conversations in South Africa (and lots of eye rolling by by other half) where we never actually mey Fiiiiiish or Shaun Bartlett but had severla near misses like checking out of a hotel the same day they were due to check in for a golf tournament.
Around 16 years ago, in Melbourne, I’m walking through the queen Victoria market one Sunday morning wearing my allsports Charlton shirt (the day of the Dicanio penalty chip).
All of a sudden this Aussie stall holder comes over and ask me where I’m watching the game later? Said I wasn’t sure as I didn’t know where it was being shown.
He goes on to tell me that it will be on at a pub called the keepers arms, (was about 11pm KO)
He then goes on to tell me, him and all his mates are Charlton, due to the fact that when the premier league really got going over in Australia, him and he’s mates were looking for a team to support and his dad said what about my old local team (his Dad emigrated from Woolwich), they’ve just been promoted.
Turns out these Aussie’s had been watching and supporting us when they could from this boozer for about 5 years.
I went there to watch the game and there were 4 or 5 of them in old Charlton shirts.
I ended the night by getting slung out the pub for being too pissed!
Two years ago at the start of the 17/18 season when we played Exeter away in The League Cup on a Tuesday night I travelled down to stay in Torquay so I could do Exeter away and then Plymouth away on the Saturday. I was waiting at Torre train station next on from Torquay as it was closer to my b&b and wearing my Charlton shirt got a few glances from someone I assumed might have been a local football fan but turns out he and his wife were Charlton fans from Portsmouth going to the game and also holidaying in Torquay but not staying on to do Plymouth on the Saturday.
Not unusual to bump into fellow Charlton fans en route to an away game I know but Torre station was still a good 22 miles away from the ground and travelling towards the London direction rather than away.
Waiting in the hot dog queue at Lions v NZ at Wellington’s cake tin - I was was wearing my Charlton beanie and scarf - I heard a guy say to his mate HES A CHARLTON FAN - had a great chat to the guy who was a season ticket holder. Made my day. And the Lions won in the final minutes. What a day.
About 15 years years ago I was in Cameroon and having spent a the first week being held up at knife point and two days later getting arrested for 'spying', I found myself alive and and a free man in a decrepit hotel in Douala.
Whilst watching England in the '98 Ashes series I popped over to New Zealand for a few days.
Wearing my MESH home shirt I wandered out of Auckland arrivals and heard someone screaming "Oi, excuse me". I thought I was going to get pulled over for something, but it was an airport official getting hysterical seeing another Charlton fan.
Was on the Wells- Walsingham railway station in North Norfolk waiting on the platform for a train that was very late arriving. Got talking to a couple of blokes who said they came from Bexleyheath. I commented that although I live in Norfolk, I'm a long suffering Charlton supporter to which one of the men said he had been a Charlton season ticket holder for many years. Beanbag who post's on C.L. and I then discussed the highs and lows of supporting the reds for many decades. He had a ticket for the playoff semi against Doncaster. Hi Beanbag, fantastic start to the new season.
I've had a few Charlton fans stay at our guesthouse, some I've nown in advance, others I haven't.
I had one Norwegian fan Charlton fan staying, who started following us when Thomas Myhre joined and had been to several games at The Valley, but he most interesting one was a Ukranian, who saw the signed shirt on the wall and started speaking to me about Charlton, how he'd never been to The Valley but really wanted to go. I was very surprised that he knew so much about he club until he told me that one of his best friends was Sergei Baltacha!
BA - I^am thinking of going to Thailand next year - would rather give you my dosh than some faceless American bullshit hotel chain. PM me some info? website etc?
MY random meeting was in a B&B in Noordhoek, Western Cape, South Africa where the guy and family were staying in flat above us, and I heard the local accent - came originally from Woolwich- same as me. He also at the time, was living in SA.
I was doing the shopping a few years back, here in Boston. I had a Charlton cap on, and the guy behind the cheese counter commented on it. Turns out he was from Dartford and used to go to games until he moved to the US.
Few years ago I was in Boston. We entered the Prudential Centre. Streams of people were on the way out, but I noticed two young boys in Charlton tops (may have been hats, can’t remember) coming down the escalator. May have been with you @SomervilleAddick?
Two weeks before the '98 play off final, I had to go to Ireland for my cousin's funeral. Flying back from Knock airport, I went to return the rental car and my mum was booking in. When I got to the queue, my mum said the bloke in front was a Charlton supporter, I started to speak to him and he was heading over to get tickets for the match, however he didn't have enough ticket stubs to get tickets. I still had my tickets from both semi final matches against Ipswich and I gave them to him, should have seen his face. His name was George and I think he was living in Mayo.
Went to Disney land Paris for a few days. Visited the Eiffel Tower as you do and sitting down on the top was a guy in a Charlton shirt. We started chatting and he is a Scottish guy from Aberdeen, who lived in London, it worked out he was a season ticket holder who sat a few rows away from me.
Few years ago I was in Boston. We entered the Prudential Centre. Streams of people were on the way out, but I noticed two young boys in Charlton tops (may have been hats, can’t remember) coming down the escalator. May have been with you @SomervilleAddick?
Was on a holiday with the Wife and kids to Menorca and found a small isolated bay which was extremely hard to access but well worth the effort when you got to the tiny beach. Was paddling with my little boy and one of those tourist day trip boats came round the mountain and sailed into our bay (to anchor up and let the passengers dive in etc). At the head of the boat like a figurehead was this massive fella with a Charlton shirt on. I started to sing Valley Floyd Road and he looked at me , smiled and gave me the thumbs up.
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so John Potter, the publisher of the European Rail Timetable, is a Charlton fan. Of course he is :-)
A Charlton supporter I got chatting to on the train to Gatwick for the flight up to Boro had just got back from DRC - expected me not to know anything about the place but it turned out he had a beer the night before with the person I was dealing with at the Embassy.
A waitress at Crawdaddy's in Pretoria asked if we had ever heard of Mark Fish as her brother had gone to the UK with him to watch the FA Cup final. That was the start of many Charlton-related conversations in South Africa (and lots of eye rolling by by other half) where we never actually mey Fiiiiiish or Shaun Bartlett but had severla near misses like checking out of a hotel the same day they were due to check in for a golf tournament.
All of a sudden this Aussie stall holder comes over and ask me where I’m watching the game later? Said I wasn’t sure as I didn’t know where it was being shown.
He goes on to tell me that it will be on at a pub called the keepers arms, (was about 11pm KO)
He then goes on to tell me, him and all his mates are Charlton, due to the fact that when the premier league really got going over in Australia, him and he’s mates were looking for a team to support and his dad said what about my old local team (his Dad emigrated from Woolwich), they’ve just been promoted.
Turns out these Aussie’s had been watching and supporting us when they could from this boozer for about 5 years.
I went there to watch the game and there were 4 or 5 of them in old Charlton shirts.
I ended the night by getting slung out the pub for being too pissed!
Recognised the tam
My ears prick up when dad says .."You wont have heard of them .... Charlton Athletic"
Like me an Upper West ST holder but never met since
Not unusual to bump into fellow Charlton fans en route to an away game I know but Torre station was still a good 22 miles away from the ground and travelling towards the London direction rather than away.
Got talking to a couple of blokes who said they came from Bexleyheath.
I commented that although I live in Norfolk, I'm a long suffering Charlton supporter to which one of the men said he had been a Charlton season ticket holder for many years.
Beanbag who post's on C.L. and I then discussed the highs and lows of supporting the reds for many decades.
He had a ticket for the playoff semi against Doncaster.
Hi Beanbag, fantastic start to the new season.