Jim Melrose' finest hour (and a half)???
Saturday 11th October 1986. Charlton Athletic 3 (2) (Melrose 20 35 78) Everton 2 (1) (Sheedy 30 57). Selhurst Park. Att: 10,564.
Charlton: Johns, Humphrey, Reid, Peake, Thompson, Shirtliff, Lee, MacDonald (Pearson 67), Melrose, Aizlewood, Walsh.
Everton: Mimms, Harper, Power, Ratcliffe, Watson, Langley (Wilkinson 79), Adams, Steven, Sharp, Heath, Sheedy.
Referee: Lester Shapter (Torquay)
Injured: Steve Thompson had two stitches in an eye injury following a collision with Graham Sharp.
Melrose finished Charltons top goalscorer with 17 goals in all competitions.
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couldn't recall johns playing in this one , how many times did he play for us that year and who was the Macdonald who played for us???
what year did that everton team win the league title
Has to be said Melrose had a blinder.
Everton did indeed with the title in this season, finishing nine points clear of Liverpool, so some result for Charlton that day.
MacDonald was John MacDonald who only played a couple of games. Was he on loan or am I thinking about the ex QPR McDonald who we had for a while?
Johns made 20 starts in all this season. Bolder 37 (quite a long season with the play-offs etc!)
Should that read ".... following a collision with Graham Sharp's elbow"???
That was a really great game. Everton were still regarded as one of the top clubs in those days and little old Charlton turned them over. Fantastic stuff.
I think Johns played a fair few games for us that season. Bolder had been signed in the summer but started off a bit ... er ... Rocky (excuse the pun!). Also I think the MacDonald fella was John MacDonald. I think we had him on loan (from Rangers?) but he only played a few times and don't think he scored.
Beating both West Ham (3-1) and Man U (1-0) away that year were both pretty special too, but I reckon you might be right given the fact that Everton were the team to beat that year.
Comfirmed: http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/player/johnmacdonald.htm
If I recall the winner came when Melrose got played through (by Walsh?) beating the offside trap and as Bobby Mimms advanced to the edge of his area he lifted it over him. From where I was sitting (in the Members Stand) we had to wait until the ball actually hit the net to know for sure if it was going in or wide - even though the jubilation from the Arthur Wait Stand should've told me that it was in all the way!
Ahh .... memories. It's amazing what you can remember when you think about it. Mind you, I wasn't drinking in those days as I was only 14!
I bet the mickeys made up half that crowd.
I was a proper Flasker back then as well Sainsbury's end for me as well, still at least it was standing back then.
We used to have a massive football match on the concourse underneath at half time every match.
And into the second half if we were getting spanked :)
Its weird - most games from this era there is a kid behind the goal in a black with grey sleeves bomber jacket.
That's me! I used to be on TV most weeks
it was all black and white when i was a kid as well...then it changed around 1969 (i think) and colour at football reached its zenith early 80's with the introduction of the multi-coloured rastafarian type tank top...no wonder it went back to a kid in black and grey in your day...
I thought Everton were the previous season's champion's?
I was stood right behind the goal at the Holmesdale End - where Jimmy Melrose scored his first two goals, although the last - from a Pearson flick on is the one that sticks in the mind although it was down the other end.
The MacDonald was John MacDonald on a short-term loan from QPR.
Johns lost his place initially when he was sent-off against Southampton in November (two bookable offences, bringing down Danny Wallace twice in quick succession). Bolder made his debut at Man City in a 2-1 defeat and was responsible for one if not both goals. Johns got his place back only to lose it through injury around December/Christmas time, Bolder therefore won his place back, had a blinder against Liverpool (nil-nil I think, we were down to ten men by the end - Lee went off injured and we'd used our sub) and following that he never really lost his place.
Johns left the club in the summer going to QPR for I think £50K as a reserve keeper.
If I remember rightly, both Sheedy's goals for them were free kicks - from an almost identical position?
Jimmy Melrose scored that day at WHU, from a Lee through ball...