Saturday 1st December 1979. Charlton Athletic 1 (1) (Gritt 15) West Ham United 0 (0). The Valley. Att: 19,021
Charlton: Wood, Hazell, Shaw, Tydeman, Berry, Madden, Powell, Jacobsen, Hales, Walker, Gritt. Unused sub: Ostergaard.
West Ham: Parkes, Stewart, Lampard, Bonds, Martin, Holland (Neighbour 69), Allen, Pearson, Cross, Brooking, Devonshire.
Referee: T Spencer (Salisbury)
Danish TV: The two new Danish imports were in the Charlton 12. Jacobsen making his debut and Ostergaard an unused sub. Members of the Danish Embassy attended the match, which was relayed live to Denmark.
Trevor Brooking made his 400th league appearence
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did anyone read the article about the 42 year old ex west ham fan(he was in the away end when we beat them 4-0 last season) and is now a charlton fan!!
apparently has a season ticket in the upper north... fair play to him even tho he's had a proper mare!!
<shakes head in disbelief>
He sits next to my daughter and me.
Seems a nice bloke.
His Mrs still goes to West Ham!
I see we finished rock bottom, winning just six games (all at home) out of 42.
Bit unfair on Claus Jensen, even Allan Simonsen, I feel but I take the point with Viggo and Dennis!
It was the way Ostergaard used to ram the opposing defenders into the advertising hordings that made me laugh ;0 )
Looking at the line ups. Could you imagine the veteran Tony Hazell at right back and the right footed and ponderous Peter Shaw at left back in the modern game? Both were much better at centre back. In contrast look at the impressive West Ham line up in this game. You wonder how we won.
I remember the hype surrounding our two Danish imports and their picture holding the Danish flag on the programme .Our ex player and former Spanner manager Benny Fenton had assumed the role of European scout and recruited them.I remember being excited by the fact that Jacobsen was called up to the full Danish squad and in my youthful naivety though that he might be of a similar calibre to Allan Simonsen.Despite his later limitations Viggo played well in this game especially when you consider the stellar midfield of the Irons in that era.
On a personal note I was at Parklands Secondary School (now Cleeve Park) in Sidcup at the time and felt like the only Charlton supporter there despite the Addicks being the local side. Lots of my class mates were happy Hammers,so I enjoyed having bragging rights over them albeit very briefly because they stuffed us 4-1 in the return fixture with an understrength side when we had already been relegated and a week later they won the FA Cup against Arsenal when Brooking scored with a header.
The Hammers were generally considered a soft touch by the big boys I seem to remember in those days.
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If I remember rightly Riviera this was their second season down and they did not get promoted until the following season,but somehow they kept all of their top players like Parkes,Stewart,Lampard,Martin,Bonds,Brooking and Devonshire. Like the Hammers in 02/03 on paper that team looks too good to go down from the top tier and certainly should have been too good for a Charlton side destined for the Third Division (League 1).
In another regard which is almost unthinkable today Trevor Brooking was still a central part of the England team throughout the Hammers spell in the second tier.
Their squad was so strong with creative players who played the 'West Ham way' that our future boss Alan Curbishley who at the time often threatened to be called up by England until he had injury problems had departed the previous summer to Birmingham because he couldn't play effectively alongside Brooking and Devonshire in midfield because he needed regular first team football to develop.
Edit: I am going to cut you some slack from now on.
true, and one the leicester boys had his leg broken near the valley pub, a horrible sight and an even worse sound.
Tony hazel made Dowie look like a pin up.
CAFC spun before Labour made spining an art form-----"CAFC sign two Danish Internationals" except one was just an under 21 and the other was a full international at Ice Hockey !!
but it was so exciting at the time!
;o)
We have watched some terrible terrible football dished up by some terrible terrible players but a few times and with the benefit of the years there were certain days of me following Charlton that I would never swap for all the FA Cups and league titles. Me and Charlton fit like a glove.