Back in the days, late 70s, I remember turning up at Woolwich Arsenal to meet mates for a trip to the real Den, my first trip to the spanners, gawd love em, with my red and white scarf round my wrist in the late 70's style, only to be informed that it was a suicide mission to wear colours and I best hide it inside my Harrington jacket or they won't go with me to the game.
Any similar experiences?
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Lost count of the number of scarves, silk and otherwise, that went whilst waiting for the bus home. I was only young and couldn't quite grasp the 'check the fixtures before heading out' rule.
Never a problem when there were a few fellow Addicks around, but as I usually hung around at the Valley for a while after every match playing footie on the mound, more often than not I was on my own.
Hey ho!!!
Except i'd drifted from my mates, was surrounded by Wham, and got punched in the back of my head to remind me so......
I went to the Den for QPR v Millwall to see former Charlton legend Stuart Leary play. I (wearing no colours as a neutral) was OK standing in the midst of a vocal blue & white clad Millwall crowd when QPR scored. A guy (clad in blue & white) 3 yards to my left threw his hands in the air in celebration.
I am not sure he had time to make a sound or his arms were even fully extended before he submerged under sea of blue to emerge somewhat chastened and fortunately only just a little bruised & bloodied. You will know Millwall & QPR both play in blue & white. I learnt then watching football in the wrong place can damage your health.
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Did the same thing again not long after at the Jills....this time on purpose, being a bit older and stupider, ended up with a big circle of coppers around us who decided after about 30 mins of the game they would escort us ala Watford to the away end...another heroes welcome.....think the game was 1-0 Peacock if memory serves me right. Back in the 70's it was traditional to wear colours away...was deemed to be chicken if you didnt...a trip to Hereford and asking for a pint of light & bitter was a laugh as they had never heard of it...must have been all of 14. Anybody remember running around at Chesterfield?
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Lol, remember Chesterfield, went acroos the pich to their end before the game started, and then escorted back by OB, only to try it again a few minutes later.
As you say, we always wore our (silk) scarves in those days tied to the wrist.
Light and Bitter, no-one ever knew what we were asking for north of Watford.
Back then the bitter was virtually a full pint and then you got the bottle of light on top.
None of these poxy measuring devices back then....
Chesterfield was a really funny day out. We had such a laugh when we invaded the pitch...gawd knows who we thought we were.....I was trying to recall the name of the bloke who was the top lad in those days....ugly bloke with a wonky eye...Im sure he was called Barry or bazza...scary bloke, but he did save me from getting a good hiding at Brighton once.
Realised why when it ended with "shoot, shoot, shoot the bastard".
Might have been Chelsea or West Ham.
I believe you are talking about one of the lads from Middle Park. He was certainly at all of the away games in those days.
Yup, quite a few of us went in their end, standing quietly, and then after 5 minutes the scarves came out and we started singing. There were also a lot of Charlton in the away end
Lol, I'd forgotten about that walk through the City. We were definitely younger in those days!
Earlier...much earlier...Tonbridge FA cup game 5-0?
Wonder where half of them are these days
Even then I only seem to remember grief at the London matches all on the trains. Hated going by coach, (and still do!!). Chelsea ambush at Earls Court springs to mind, now that was scary, can't remember the year tho. QPR was always dodgy and I also recall being threatened by a kid with a prosthetic arm outside the Old Den!!!!