that old song "smile even though yout heart is breaking " well stuck in traffic on Blackheath earlier and on the radio came "show me the way to Amarillio" and i had to smile thinking of 20,000 singing it and laying the ghost of the way we were treated at ShitOuts Park. We have been mostly shit in my 40+plus years but there have been so many times when following CAFC has made me smile and when its really dark and gloomy and shit as it is now (sorry Oggy) maybe we need to think of those times ? not the promotions , wembley or the win at Goonerville but those times when it used to be fun .
* walking into the Watermans Arms and finding my late Uncle and cousin there.
* in a boozer in Carlisle and a mate from Saudi walks in who i hadnt seen for 10 years
* 10,000 people singing "things can ony get better" at Old Trafford
* walking down a street in Blackpool to bump into a coach load of Bmob
* the mounted OB in the bar at Shef Wednesday
* the OB chucked off his horse at Bolten station
hundreds more but you get the idea.
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* that draw with Chelsea
* Charlton players on the field before the Leeds play off game at Elland Road kicking the Leeds fans' ball into the Charlton 'crowd' and it going straight back in pieces.
* the footie match with Sunderland fans in the road outside a pub in Marylebone on the day of the play off final
* Kent Cup c1975 (Palace away, Millwall at Home, Gillingham Away)
* Carlisle away in our 1985/86 promotion year
* Ipswich in the cup
* Wolves in the cup
* Promotion from Div3 against Preston
lol this one is before my time, but it does sound good.
* Having a pee in Hereford outside the ground on a Tuesday night, the 3 of us hadn't seen a sole with 2 hours to kill before kick off. Bloke walked in with a Charlton top. Blimey I said, another Charlton. Follow me he said, there are 200 of us in the pub down the road.
* Standing outside Woolwich Town Hall