Saturday 7th April 1984. The Valley. Att:15,298
Charlton Athletic 1 (1) (Dowman 22) Newcastle United 3 (1) (Waddle 30, McDermott 87, Beardsley 89).
Charlton: Johns, O'Shea, Dickenson, Smith, Dowman, Berry, Robinson, Lee, Jones, Aizlewood, Flanagan. Unused sub: Curtis.
Newcastle: Carr, Anderson, Wharton, McCreery, Carney, Roeder, Keegan, Beardsley, Waddle, McDermott, Trewick. Unused sub: Haddock.
Referee: T G Bune (Berks)
Presentation: Before the match, new Charlton chairman John Fryer presented Kevin Keegan with a crystal-cut punch bowl to mark the England international's final appearence in the capital.
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Don't remember the presentation though...
I think they were promoted (or as good as) after this result.
this was a monster crowd for us at the time and the geordies must've had 5k+(all from london) proper proper away support before football became popular/trendy/hip again
Dickenson was a proper Charlton player. Not the best but gave his all and for a while played above himself.
My dad was a steward at the Valley in those days and he told me that the Newcastle coach took an absolute age to get away from the ground after the game. That was because Kevin Keegan insisted upon giving his autograph to every last kid who wanted it - top man.
Something of a contrast to Peter Shilton, who disappointed a whole bunch of kids (me included) by refusing to sign any autographs and jumping straight on the coach after Leicester had trounced us 5-0 at the Valley in 1970 (not that I bear a grudge, of course).
Digressing a little....a couple of weeks into the Trinidad tour, I was watching TV round a local's house (a shack really) and on came The Big Match! It was a special edition made for foreign viewing and was a few week's behind. So, it had been made during the time we were bust and I remember Brian Moore saying something along the lines of "and now, in these very worrying times, something to cheer up Charlton supporters around the world....here's Derek Hales scoring a hat-trick v Hull in 1976!" (or whatever year it was). I'd never seen it before and it was lovely to think that Brian Moore was thinking of suffering Charlton fans world-wide.....and boy were we suffering then. I've always thought of him as the best TV football commentator but that was special.
In the moment Beardsley had the ball at his feet inside the box, the whole end stood up anticipating the finish. The ability to make time stand still on a football pitch. Very rare. Tony Watt has a bit of that, as we have seen, especially the goal against Huddersfield.
The bloke who threatened me shook my hand because of this and said how 'game we were for Cockneys' the whole day made a big impression on me at 15 and the following week I came to the Fulham game 4-3? for the first time on my own, I always regard the time between the Grimsby game and this as the moment I stopped being told I was a Charlton fan being taken to games and realising I was one, happy memories and a great Oscar kit
Think you were two out on the attendance :-)
Newcastle went up that season, but only finished third behind Chelsea and Sheff Wed.
Watching the game below - and it was below - gave you a very clear view of the tactics being deployed which a pitch side spot, or corner position in the ground elsewhere, didn't.