1976-77 What a year that was!!

Addick Addict

http://www.statto.com/football/teams/charlton-athletic/1976-1977

Seeing the thread about Robbo made me look back to 1977, the year he joined us and the year I started left school and started work.

I can't believe how lucky I was to witness such attacking football and probably didn't fully appreciate it at the time. Hopeless away we were absolutely magnificent at home with a record of:

P 21 W 14 D 5 L 2 F 52 A 27

This included tha famous 4-0 battering of a very good Chelsea team and the 6-2 thumping of Southampton.

Ah those were the days (as he takes off his rose tinted glasses and wipes the tears away).

Oggy Red

Looking at that table, I see we won at home against Millwall and drew at The Den.
And unbeaten against ourselves ....(!)

Addickted

My first season as a ST holder.


God I feel old.

Big William

[quote][cite]Posted By: Addickted[/cite]My first season as a ST holder.[/quote]

Think that season was my first ST as well - cost me a fiver I think.

Addick Addict

We've gone full circle - upper mid table of the second tier.

Somehow, though, it doesn't seem the same. Perhaps I wasn't quite so cynical as a rather green 17 year old!!!

Addickted

I became cynical after we destroyed Blackburn 4-0 that season and then could only draw with them in the 3rd round of the cup a couple of weeks later.

TEL

It was a great season at home....I was chatting to a Southampton fan the other week when I went to watch the Central Coast Mariners and we both went to the 6-2....he was gutted, I was ecstatic...brilliant night.....Loved it back in the Seventies as a teenager...many fond memories...wasnt the first game of the season against newly promoted Cardiff and we lost 0-2 amongst scenes of the battle of the Alamo after the game?

KillersBeard

I really thought we were going to get promoted that season.

What a game that Chelsea 4-0 was, assuming it's the one when they trashed the place after.

If so, it was a packed Valley as I remember and I got there late with a few friends. Went to take up my usual place in the back of the Covered End, but couldn't get near it and had to settle for a place at the front.

Remember thinking how strange it was that I knew nobody near the front at all and saying to the others, sod this, no-ones singing so at half time I'm barging my way to the back. Then when the first goal went in and I went mental, it suddenly dawned on me that I was standing amongst the Chelsea. Who had 'taken' the Covered End.

I swear I hadn't a clue and quite why they hadn't sorted me out whilst I was saying a few choice words about the team in blue I've no idea, but the OB came in as soon as they saw what was happening and took out about twenty or so of us, 'for our own safety'.

Fair play to the OB for getting us out though.

Didn't completely get away with it, as I met up with a number of chelsea skinhead loons on the way back to Woolwich, that was fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

At least we got nice new turnstiles out of it though! :-)

LenGlover

If Gliksten hadn't sold Killer we would have got promoted. The triumvirate of Powell, Hales and Flanagan scored and created goals for fun.

TEL

Before the game I went into the Covered end and it was full of Chelsea fans singing Charlton.....didnt see any of our lot in there at all, so went and stood on the East...about ten mins into the game their fans that were on the South Terrace started streaming around the east...one stopped and started to question me........then pulled out a dagger...needless to say but I was on my toes a bit sharpish and had to climb the gates on the Bartram entrance to get away. (ruining my leather jacket)....A couple of my mates put up a bit of a stand outside Woolwich Market later on but got overwhelmed by numbers and ended up getting a bit of a kicking. Stood on the Heights for a while to watch the game and had a very good view as fires were lit on the east and behind the Covered End. Great result though!

KillersBeard

I've said that about hearing 'Charlton' being sung in the Covered End by chelsea before, which is why I never sussed they were chelsea straight away and was told I must be mad. Glad to hear it ratified by someone else, thanks Tel.

Trust me, you weren't the only one threatened by knives that night.

TEL

Yep Chelsea had sent down a scouting party a week or two before.....I saw them just behind the mound...big ginger bloke in a trench coat, they were quite blatant about what they were plotting.....As soon as I walked in.....I didnt recognise anybody at all...and you knew most of the faces in the Covered end back then. Sheffield Wednesday did the same thing a year or two earlier when they took the Covered End at 2pm....their accents gave it away!

KillersBeard

I remember being in the Covered End early for that sheff wed match. When they all came in from the opposite end it was like Rourkes Drift, seemed like there was bloody millions of em heading across the pitch at us.

Goonerhater

Shef Wed gents untill half time when many people came IN when the gates were opened and it got alot less healthy if you was wednesday. most went and stood on the side when the numbers strated evening up. Lots of pubs emptied down in Woolwich about 3PM when the word got out.

TEL

Yes I remember a mob under the pylon on the East Terrace...The Wednesday fans had a very large contingent of skins back then...but come on 2pm was a bit of a laugh wasnt it. The OB did a good job of herding normal Covered end fans onto the East Terrace and the mound (where I was). That was the first time I had seen anybody completely take the Covered end if you can call it that....there was nobody there to take....lol

northstandsteve

feckin hooligans the lot of you ;-)

_MrDick

[cite]Posted By: TelinOz[/cite]It was a great season at home....I was chatting to a Southampton fan the other week when I went to watch the Central Coast Mariners and we both went to the 6-2....he was gutted, I was ecstatic...brilliant night.....Loved it back in the Seventies as a teenager...many fond memories...wasnt the first game of the season against newly promoted Cardiff and we lost 0-2 amongst scenes of the battle of the Alamo after the game?

It was the battle of the Alamo before the game as well. A few Cardiff fans invaded the pitch to be met by a 'Flamed-Haired' Charlton fan who wanted to take on the whole of Wales...Wasn't Ben hayes was it?

_MrDick

[cite]Posted By: TelinOz[/cite]Yes I remember a mob under the pylon on the East Terrace...The Wednesday fans had a very large contingent of skins back then...but come on 2pm was a bit of a laugh wasnt it. The OB did a good job of herding normal Covered end fans onto the East Terrace and the mound (where I was). That was the first time I had seen anybody completely take the Covered end if you can call it that....there was nobody there to take....lol

Don't you remember Leicester taking it back in about 1971?

TEL

And at Half time when the Welsh came around the back of the West. The tunnel outside the ground was memorable as was the coach park....Steve I was an innocent teenage onlooker :-)

TEL

The 5-1? Nah I was only a nipper and my Uncle wouldnt let me go in the nasty covered end in those days

stonemuse

That was some season and the above brings back some 'interesting' memories.

Remember Chelsea going in to the Valley Club afterwards and starting another fire. Strange thing is, a bloke I worked with at the time in the City supported Chelsea, his old man did the work on the carpets in the Valley Club, and then got called back to do it again and got paid twice ... conspiracy I reckon;-)

Quite a few good awaydays were had that season by the Covered End!

Goonerhater

May have been that year that i did the most games for me in one league season 36. Was around that time. Would have also been close to the time when Valley Away got banned by the club. Which was run by a guy called Mick walker who moved up to the midlands yonks back. Could enjoy yourself in those days mind.


cue the holly joe mafia ------------------- go on go on you know u wanna.

Goonerhater

The guy on the pitchre Cardiff was a guy called Big pat from Plumstead. who later went to to West Ham and was never seen again ! Legend has it when you walk through the foot tunnel at night late you can here the wind say "biggggggggggggggg patttttttttttttt".




PS only the first bit is true ! well and the middle.