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The week that was - 18th Feb 1963. Charlton 1 Cardiff 0

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edited February 2008 in General Charlton
F A Cup 3rd Round. Monday 18th February 1963. The Valley. Att: 13,448

Charlton Athletic 1 (0) (Glover 78) Cardiff City 0 (0)

Charlton: Wakeham, Sewell, Stocks, Tocknell, Hinton, Baily, Kenning, Glover, Mathews, Hewie, Kinsey.

Cardiff: Vearncombe, Harrington, Edwards, Baker, Charles, Hole, McIntosh, Durban, Tapscott, Allchurch, Hooper.

Referee: P Brandwood (Wolverhampton)

Postponements: The game was origionally scheduled to be played on 5th January, but due to the severe winter of the 62/63 season wrecked the football programme and this fixture suffered ten postponements before the game finally took place!

Comments

  • LenGloverLenGlover
    This was meant to be my first ever game but wasn't because of all the postponements.
  • Oggy RedOggy Red
    But you did score, Len ........!


    Bit before my time, though.
  • StoneStone
    edited February 2008
    Imagine being a Cardiff fan who hadn't missed a game for ten years or something stupid. How many times would he have set off or even got up to the game. Must have been one of them? (Please)
  • AFKABartramAFKABartram
    ten postponements !!!!
  • Alex WrightAlex Wright
    [cite]Posted By: AFKA Bartram[/cite]ten postponements !!!!
    yes, it was effing cold that winter! Youngsters these days don't know they're born! :)
  • Oggy RedOggy Red
    Yeah, Alex, agreed.

    But what a fantastic winter that was if you were a kid.

    I grew up in Welling and we had deep snow on the ground from Boxing Day until March.

    Snowdrifts 10 foot deep, icicles 10 foot long hanging from the house gutters.
    Armies of Snowmen and amazing igloos that 20 of us kids would make together.

    And frozen Danson Park lake and the ice slides.....

    And when they snowploughed the roads, all the the snow waste was piled up by the roadside 4 or 5 foot high, and we made loads of twisty tunnels right the way through it all - none of that stuff melted until the middle of March.

    And you try telling the kids of today and they won't believe you ...... :o)
  • Oggy RedOggy Red
    Apart from Alex, nobody else remember that winter ..... maybe Len, Lancs Lad, Thai, Badger, TCE, Bing?
    I was 7 years old at the time.
  • Alex WrightAlex Wright
    I remember spending loads of time riding my bike off the cleared roads into the snow drifts by the roadside just to see how far I could go before grinding to a stop. Going to my school, which had been closed due to the weather and tramping around in the pristine new snow on the playground. Loads of makeshift sledges in Greenwich park.

    simple things.....
  • bingaddickbingaddick
    [cite]Posted By: Oggy Red[/cite]Apart from Alex, nobody else remember that winter ..... maybe Len, Lancs Lad, Thai, Badger, TCE, Bing?
    I was 7 years old at the time.

    I remember it Oggy, I was four and my sister had just been born at the beginning of December. I lived on the edge of the North Downs and it was cold through December but turned really cold in the new year. I just remember it seemed to just go on and on, with lying snow for weeks. It was my first taste of tobogganing and we had plenty of slopes to go down. I remember a couple of older lads were using an old car bonnet and the bloody thing nearly took off.

    Simple pleasures eh?

    We were' appy in those days though, 'appy and poor..........:-)

    I recommend a book called "The Weather in Kent" by a bloke called Bob Ogley who was a friend of my father-in-law. It has quite a bit about the 62/63 winter.
  • OaksterOakster
    Us Canadian Addicks, well those east of British Colombia at any rate, re-live this every winter. Mind you it's downright beautiful at the moment, blue skies, warm sun & sunshine all the way in Alberta this week.
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  • GoonerhaterGoonerhater
    i sorta remember it. We had a big family do at my Mums and dads. It snowed very very hard. The family from Plumstead had to stay and sleep on floor. The family from Erith etc had to walk. The got about 20 mins in their walk and came back to Mum and dads.Roads where closed.My Uncles car was at our place for two weeks. It was great fun as kids.
  • GoonerhaterGoonerhater
    Mind you i do remeber going to Orient and the game was abandoned at 0 V 0 re waterlogged pitch. Then got all the way over for the rearranged game and it was postponed. Then when the game went ahead as last game ofthe year it was 0 v 0 and a real bore. I think this was another one of our great "Twinings" this time with the Boston Tea Men. We sent them our best players (while our League was still operating !!) and they sent us a Xmas card------ seemed worth it though i mean its more than we got from Inta Milan !

    I think that we should be twined with VeryLargeTesticles FC as its all a loads of bolloxx.
  • BlackForestRedsBlackForestReds
    I recommend a book called "The Weather in Kent" by a bloke called Bob Ogley who was a friend of my father-in-law. It has quite a bit about the 62/63 winter.

    ..........

    He was formerly editor of the Sevenoaks Chronicle and has written quite a few books on Kent including one on the great storm in 1987.
  • Oggy RedOggy Red
    So there are a handful of us on here who remember that winter of winters.
    Cheers Bing, Alex, GHater et al.


    Come on own up, who's the oldest old codger on this board? I'm sure Lancashire Lad
    is older than me - surely there's SOMEONE......????? *starts to feel ever so slightly anxious* :o)



    GHater, that Boston Tea Men set up - didn't Paddy Powell, Mick Flanagan, Laurie Abrams(remember him?) & maybe Keefy Peacock went over. And Flash was leading NAFL scorer and won player of the year or something?

    They all missed around the last 3 weeks of Charlton's season
  • AFKABartramAFKABartram
    from memory, i think Lanc lad is the oldest.
  • HOME & AWAYHOME & AWAY
    and they used to play on mud......!!!
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