Since I have been supporting Charlton, they have played in division 3 for 4 seasons.
Fact: The game that decides Charlton's fate for that season is the 5th league game. If Charlton lose this game they get promoted, if they win they stay in the division.
72/73 beat York City 1-0
73/74 beat Brighton 2-1
74/75 lost Colchester 3-0
80/81 lost Millwall 2-0
In each season Charlton's top goal scorer surname began with H.
72/73 Horsfield ; 29 goals
73/74 Horsfield ; 20 goals
74/75 Hales ; 21 goals
80/81 Hales ; 23 goals
In each season also first round of FA Cup is always an away game.
Memories:
Season 74/75 : used to travel to away games as my name might suggest with Lewis Coaches, Eddie Cecil the driver.
First game of season Halifax away, had a run in with the home fans. Didn't help matters when we were waiting by the coaches after the game when some nutter decided to throw a brick at Chris Slattery's wife. Missed her, but hit George full in the face. Big Chris along with some of us went up the road after them.
Bury away: a group of 5 or 6 of us would always stay at a friend's house in Keston. Going to the local pub on the Friday evening, back to his house for a game of cards and listening to records: Bowie, Lou Reed, Joe Cocker. He was lucky enough to have a swimming pool in his back garden which we also used. Morming of the Bury away game, waiting at busstop at Locks Bottom when to our amazement a young lady started to perform a striptease for us in her bedroom. Can always remember the old man's face when he realized she was performing for us and not him!
Have you got any memories yourself? And don't tell me you was the old man!
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that made me laugh
Coming back on the train and our lot going on a rampage through London...there was a new shopping centre......windows were smashed and it seemed like the whole city of London police force were chasing us.
lol ... ok sounds stupid now ... but it was fun at the time! Quite a few of us on that trip.
Has always been one of my favourite memories, great night!
Gillingham is one game that sticks in my mind from back then.
'we are the reds
We are the reds
we are, we are
We are the reds'
Memories...
All Brighton awaydays / weekends bring back great memories but that one was particularly memorable.
Goodbye Horse!
Gillingham......me and a mate going up to Lewisham to get a National coach for some reason (maybe it was cheaper)...getting down there really early....going in the home end complete with scarves on wrists and wondering why we were being surrounded by the old bill....even escorted us to the toilets......we went mad when we scored and it all kicked off around us. After the game we had to wait until 7pm for a coach back...wandered into a group of Jills who chased us all over the place.....was really funny as we were fit young things in those days and one of the Jills was a bunteresque figure who fell over twice and I nearly died laughing.
Too many Brighton tales....
Chesterfield....Stonemuse remembers this one....
Good times in the 70's a lot of laugh's tinged with a bit of danger
who where the Hs ?
I thought it was Killer but when you said another H scored a hat-trick, I thought you meant other than Hales or Horsfield. Doh!
BTW I think we played them away and the gate was around 1200 or maybe even less. But not as low as Rochdale away, which I reacall as 819, but am sure someone will correct me.
'we are the reds
We are the reds
we are, we are
We are the reds'
Memories...[/quote]
Yeah one of ours broke my bloody nose on the way home on the train...wasnt any of you lot was it?
All Brighton awaydays / weekends bring back great memories but that one was particularly memorable.
Goodbye Horse![/quote][/quote]
If I remember right we wern't that untouchable. Brighton took the lead end of first half with a 20yd volley. We spent most of the game trying to equalise, which eventualy came from a scramble at a corner. The pitch was waterlogged by the halfway line and players from both sides couldn't hack it out of the water.
We were the better side but the conditions leveled it some what.
The first was a night game which we won 2-1, second was a Saturday which we also won 2-1, both games we were trailing 1-0...
Pure chaos on the night match and the train was well smashed up...
Got there early for the Saturday match and we chased the Brighton mob for hours, even had the OB on the run...
We got beat 4-0 at home on a freezing January afternoon so their coach windows were 'airated' for the journey home....
This was also the season we played Bournemouth away in the league then a couple of weeks later we played them in the cup, we lost both matches 1-0...
Never went to the league match but the cup was well supported and the usual chaos ensued...
Youre right it was 0-4
Fact when this happens Charlton always win promotion from the 3rd division,just enjoy the ride nothing can stop us.
Unless Parkinson wants to brake another record that is.
Anyone cast light on this game? was it 2-2.? I think it was a very late game in the season. In fact, I am sure Derby won the league that day.