when we first went down to the third division...about 3,500 of us if the old memory serves me right...lost 2-1, my uncle was talking to their players i think it was and they were saying how they were up for it because the saw us as a bigger club and the valley was a massive ground, the biggest 'official' league capacity at the time at around 65/66k i seem to remember though only 3k in seats...a lesson for the coming season there when other teams come to the valley...
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I was there intermittently.
Back in 72/3 I played rugby on saturdays so only used to get to the mid week and friday night games unless we didn't have a match.
funny old game.
And the memory of having the pxxx being taken out of me at school for being an Addick. Which is why I have a little chuckle to myself when some on here get so wound up about so called takeovers.
You haven't lived 'til you've watched us at the likes of Aldershot, Cambridge and Notts County.
Later in the season we scored 6 at least twice and the Kentish Independent called it 'The Valley of the Goals'....Happy days...
same...
What a fecking Jinx
Either way, the first season that I went to The Valley was 72/73 so I've seen it before.
we started in div 3 sth in 1921 and got promotion as champs in 1929 staying there for 4 seasons before relegation back down to the 3rd in 1933. 2 years later we were champions again and 2 years after that we were division 1 runners up in 1937.
Yes!!
You young'uns have been spoilt the last few years with all premiership malarky, do you all good to wander around the lower divisions for a couple of years to see what footballs all about, following Charlton for more years than I care to mention and along with Henry, Oggy and a few others out support was only interupted by our "call up papers" in ww2 although Oggy's may have been WW1. Lets see if your still here in another 10 years
Thank you, TCE. I might have got my call up papers in 1914, but I've still been playing recently for Charlton Life, even though apparently only Dazzler is now slower than me.....(!)
GH is right ..... we lost 3-2, despite leading 1-0 at half time from a solo Keithy Peacock goal. Can't remember if Vince O'Kane missed a penalty in the last minute for an equaliser, maybe .... get's a bit blurry when you're now a Centenarian, lol
Went up on the Bubbles coach, steaming hot and sunny day, loads of Aggro like you youngsters have never seen ..... Walsall were certainly up for it and saw newly relegated us as a big scalp.
More of that to come in just a few weeks. Gird your loins.
;o)
Lol, thats a very low blow
He wasn't the biggest but he certainly was usually one of the first ones in...
Great to support a real team once again.
Yep, I was there....stabbings on the way home at the service station....I think it was either Coventry or Everton supporters that attacked Charton went for a walk across to the northern part of the services.