The week that was. Tue 3rd March 1987. Everton 2 Charlton 2.....

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Tuesday 3rd March 1987. Full Members Cup Quarter Final. Goodison Park. Att: 7,914.

Everton 2 (1) (Wilkinson 13, Steven 59) Charlton Athletic 2 (1) (Lee 38, Miller 62) AET 90 minutes 2-2. Charlton won 6-5 on penalties

Everton: Southall, Van den Hauwe, Pointon, Mountfield, Watson, Harper (Langley), Steven (Ebbrell), Heath, Wilkinson, Snodin, Adams.

Charlton: Bolder, Humphrey, Reid, Peake, Thompson, Miller, Bennett (Stuart), Lee, Melrose, Shipley, Walsh. Unused sub: Curbishley.

Referee: J McAuley (Leeds).

Pens: Heath 0-1, Reid Missed , Wilkinson Missed , Walsh 1-1 , Ebbrell 1-2 , Miller Missed, Southall 1-3, Melrose 2-3, Adams Missed, Peake 3-3, Van den Hauwe 3-4, Humphrey 4-4, Snodin 4-5, Shipley 5-5, Pointon Missed (save from Bolder), Stuart 6-5.

DaveMehmet

I went up there by car and had to go to work in the moring after getting home about half past three in the morning!

The best penalty of the night was Southall's He hammered it home so hard that it probably would have taken Bolder in the back of the net if he'd caught it!

I've got the game on video somewhere. It's the entire game but without commentary.

Ormiston_Addick

Any Charlton fan who went to this game is an absolute legend!!! I was only 14 at the time so there was no way I would have been allowed to go on a school night!!! How many did we have there that night Dave? My guess is about 50.

DaveMehmet

From memory, not too many, about 50-100. I'll try and dig the video out and count!

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Anyone else apart from DaveMehmet going to admit to insanity?

addick1965

I went by coach to this one,when we got dropped off in Eltham after the game i got stopped by the old bill wanting to know why i was wandering about at 3am in the morning when i told him i'd been to football he told me to prove it.....which i did by producing the programme from my bag.

Richard J

I was there and I am sure that there were even less in the away end than Dave Mehmet remembers.Indeed it was the sparsity of the addickted there that night which added to the experience.

This was our first year up in the old First Division and for some reason I choose to do the ground at this game rather than the league fixture which I think was about 10 days later.

An occasional user on here @Cuptie Bill was with me and we ended up on the much missed after midnight train out of Liverpool Lime Street which used to virtually visit the Welsh borders before finally arriving at Euston just as the Tube opened the next morning.

We met some really friendly Evertonians,somehow Liverpool is a friendlier place when we visit Goodison and they took us to a lock in at their local.

As for the game it was exciting and although Everton were on their way to becoming league champions they put out a reasonably strong side because I think this was the only Cup competition they were still left in at the time.

The penalty shoot out was also fantastic drama as it ebbed and flowed.

All in all one of my favourite away trips from back in the day.

Miserableoldgit

Was fitting carpets for Brown Shipley in Haywoods Heath that night: Could I get the latest scores.....Could I f**k !
Got home about 3am and had to look at Teletext/Oracle.

"And you try telling the kids of today about it, and they won't believe you !".

chazza

HOME & AWAY said:

Anyone else apart from DaveMehmet going to admit to insanity?

Guilty as charged.

CUP-TIE BILL

I remember this game. Me and a mate from Gravesend went up really early,and hit the pubs including The Valley pub in some place near Everton. After a few gallons of beer we made it to the ground only to be told the turnstile man had gone home. Some police personnel told us to go in the enclosure has all the expected Charlton fans were in the ground already. We staggered into the Bullens enclosure and were greeted with a few friendly scouse niceties until Charlton scored and we were shoved in with the RED ARMY. I remember the pub afterwards with Richard J and Eltham John. We bought a huge bag of beer to drink on the midnight express and were told at Lime street we couldnt take it on the train. So we drank what we could,gave some to a Lime street tramp and settled down for one of Bradshaws great British train journeys without Michael Portilo.

Clem_Snide

I've told this story before but feel the need to repeat it. I was 13 and me and my mate Rob bunked off school, told each others parents we were staying at the others house, went on the coach, got home at 4am and wandered the streets till Rob's parents went to work. Got caught when my mum found the programme on my bedroom floor! She was actually quietly impressed at the almost military planning that went into the scam.

Ormiston_Addick

Clem_Snide said:

I've told this story before but feel the need to repeat it. I was 13 and me and my mate Rob bunked off school, told each others parents we were staying at the others house, went on the coach, got home at 4am and wandered the streets till Rob's parents went to work. Got caught when my mum found the programme on my bedroom floor! She was actually quietly impressed at the almost military planning that went into the scam.

Cor, bloody hell! That's impressive but if my boy pulled that one on me......

redbonse

There were 49 of us there. Three of us went up by car and did each did a count .

Richard J

Clem_Snide said:

I've told this story before but feel the need to repeat it. I was 13 and me and my mate Rob bunked off school, told each others parents we were staying at the others house, went on the coach, got home at 4am and wandered the streets till Rob's parents went to work. Got caught when my mum found the programme on my bedroom floor! She was actually quietly impressed at the almost military planning that went into the scam.

Great story Clem.

CUP-TIE BILL said:

I remember this game. Me and a mate from Gravesend went up really early,and hit the pubs including The Valley pub in some place near Everton. After a few gallons of beer we made it to the ground only to be told the turnstile man had gone home. Some police personnel told us to go in the enclosure has all the expected Charlton fans were in the ground already. We staggered into the Bullens enclosure and were greeted with a few friendly scouse niceties until Charlton scored and we were shoved in with the RED ARMY. I remember the pub afterwards with Richard J and Eltham John. We bought a huge bag of beer to drink on the midnight express and were told at Lime street we couldnt take it on the train. So we drank what we could,gave some to a Lime street tramp and settled down for one of Bradshaws great British train journeys without Michael Portilo.

I remember you joining us on the terraces and I can even remember the price of the train ticket,£22 on an Inter City saver, I think our old Scottish pal Iain Millar was there also.Happy days.

CUP-TIE BILL

They were happy days Richard! Is Mr Millar still around? Do you remember the bloke we nicknamed "the leech!"? He used to stand next to people who were getting the drinks in and get a pint,we all thought some of our group knew him. It turned out he was also at the bar when other groups were getting their rounds in! He was sussed out when one group said to the other that their mate wasnt buying many rounds,and it turned out nobody knew him.

Alex Wright

HOME & AWAY said:

Anyone else apart from DaveMehmet going to admit to insanity?

yep, on Bill Treadgolds coach along with a few others (DannyCAFC aka Exis10tial for one)I seem to remember a future valley party candidate smuggled vodka on board, thinly disguised as orange juice.

Coming away from Goodison Park the Bill stopped the coach and warned the addick faithful for celebrating too much while in sight of the disgruntled Evertonians. Didn't spoil the feeling

Richard J

CUP-TIE BILL said:

They were happy days Richard! Is Mr Millar still around? Do you remember the bloke we nicknamed "the leech!"? He used to stand next to people who were getting the drinks in and get a pint,we all thought some of our group knew him. It turned out he was also at the bar when other groups were getting their rounds in! He was sussed out when one group said to the other that their mate wasnt buying many rounds,and it turned out nobody knew him.

Not seen him for years ,last I heard Iain was spending most of his leisure time on the golf course.Hopefully catch you before the end of the season. Saw the 'leech' at a couple of aways last season.

CUP-TIE BILL

Did you get Leech a pint?