It was 1976 - and we won, 2-1 I think, but can't remember our goalscorers offhand.
Tel's right, we came into the ground to find the Covered End full of Wednesday fans and that caused a bit of aggro, I can tell you.
After that we had a little Cup run, in the 4th round drawing at home to Pompey and beating them nicely 3-0 in the replay at Fratton Park.
Then in the 5th round drawn away to top flight Wolves, going up on the football special train and a fantastic day out at Molyneux, even though we lost 3-0 despite having a great deal of the game. Just their finishing was better than ours.
One of the 'classic' Charlton away days.
I always used to walk up to the Heights before games in those days and was staggered to see the Covered end full of Blue and White Wednesday fans...it really was a chaotic day at the Valley....particularly after the game as it went off on the corner of Floyd Road and across the railway bridge...Pompey away was a bit of a mare coming home as they put a brick through the coach window.....Wolves away was a classic....over 6000 travelled, very memorable :-)
[cite]Posted By: Telnotinoz[/cite]Yes, they took the Covered end at 2.15pm.....loads of Skinheads...but I have to say I thought it was 74 or 75
That's because we were still in the Watermans...And I think they were in the covered end long before 2.15
One thing I'll always remember from that match is one of their lads charging accross the covered end dressed in a full length leather trench coat and wearing platform shoes. He fell over and was trampled underfoot by his own mates...Oh how we laughed
Walked on to the East terrace about ten to three and noticed the covered end was bellowing with a distinct Yorkshire accent... Just to stir things up, Keith Peacock scored in the first minute with a mis-hit shot, and all the Charlton who had evacuated to the south terrace charged round behind the west to try and retake the covered end. This sort of carried on for most of the match, think Phil Warman got the second with an overhead kick. Distinctly remember Jimmy Giles getting hit with an apple, and taking a bite out of it! Apart from when Chelsea started burning the place down, it was probably the worst trouble I saw down there, most games used to pass with no incidents whatsoever, this was a time when there was a lot of stuff going on up and down the country.
Lots of stories went round that Wednesday turned up the night before and made a nuisance of themselves in Charlton Village, also that they went down Woolwich and "recruited" a load of northern squaddies to help them out. Probably total BS, but you never know.
Definetly wasnt any Millwall there....dont you get fed up hearing that?......just because we held our own, that old chestnut gets wheeled out. Id have like to have seen them try to take the Covered end had Charlton been in it.....Not likely as Cardiff found out later that year.
100% no millwall there its in a book from a Wensday herbert there was, but thats bullshit. Like there was wall at Bristol City-- Chelsea blah blah blah.
[cite]Posted By: Oggy Red[/cite]Then in the 5th round drawn away to top flight Wolves, going up on the football special train and a fantastic day out at Molyneux, even though we lost 3-0 despite having a great deal of the game. Just their finishing was better than ours.
One of the 'classic' Charlton away days.
Brilliant day out, thousands of us up there - didn't one of their substitutes get all the goals?
[cite]Posted By: Telnotinoz[/cite]Definetly wasnt any Millwall there....dont you get fed up hearing that?......just because we held our own, that old chestnut gets wheeled out. Id have like to have seen them try to take the Covered end had Charlton been in it.....Not likely as Cardiff found out later that year.
And Portsmouth in the next round of the cup that year
I remember this game well, the Wednesday took the Covered End in what seemed like seconds but we regrouped on the left side and although we never shifted them out completely there was plenty of aggro...
After the match we chased them down that road beside where the Waterman used to be, the aggro seem to go on for ages..
I met a Wednesday fan in Doncaster not long after that match and he told me the coach he was on got attacked by Spanner fans as the driver got lost looking for the Blackwall tunnel, quite a few were injured apparently...
What a small world, I was on that same coach at Pompey when the brick came through the window, it was bloody freezing too...
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Tel's right, we came into the ground to find the Covered End full of Wednesday fans and that caused a bit of aggro, I can tell you.
After that we had a little Cup run, in the 4th round drawing at home to Pompey and beating them nicely 3-0 in the replay at Fratton Park.
Then in the 5th round drawn away to top flight Wolves, going up on the football special train and a fantastic day out at Molyneux, even though we lost 3-0 despite having a great deal of the game. Just their finishing was better than ours.
One of the 'classic' Charlton away days.
That's because we were still in the Watermans...And I think they were in the covered end long before 2.15
One thing I'll always remember from that match is one of their lads charging accross the covered end dressed in a full length leather trench coat and wearing platform shoes. He fell over and was trampled underfoot by his own mates...Oh how we laughed
He reckoned that 150 Millwall turned up for a bit of revenge as Wed had had a pop up north somewhere??
He reckons that it went off crazy but it was all millwall!
I told him we have been hearing that old chesnut for years.....Zzzzzzzzz
Absolutely no way was there any Millwall there that day
Walked on to the East terrace about ten to three and noticed the covered end was bellowing with a distinct Yorkshire accent... Just to stir things up, Keith Peacock scored in the first minute with a mis-hit shot, and all the Charlton who had evacuated to the south terrace charged round behind the west to try and retake the covered end. This sort of carried on for most of the match, think Phil Warman got the second with an overhead kick. Distinctly remember Jimmy Giles getting hit with an apple, and taking a bite out of it! Apart from when Chelsea started burning the place down, it was probably the worst trouble I saw down there, most games used to pass with no incidents whatsoever, this was a time when there was a lot of stuff going on up and down the country.
Lots of stories went round that Wednesday turned up the night before and made a nuisance of themselves in Charlton Village, also that they went down Woolwich and "recruited" a load of northern squaddies to help them out. Probably total BS, but you never know.
Brilliant day out, thousands of us up there - didn't one of their substitutes get all the goals?
And Portsmouth in the next round of the cup that year
Really trying to scratch my head on this one, it's 33 years ago, lol
Edit: beat me too it by seconds Brunello!
;o)
That's what i meant...LOL
I always used to make sure I stood behind him in the covered end!
After the match we chased them down that road beside where the Waterman used to be, the aggro seem to go on for ages..
I met a Wednesday fan in Doncaster not long after that match and he told me the coach he was on got attacked by Spanner fans as the driver got lost looking for the Blackwall tunnel, quite a few were injured apparently...
What a small world, I was on that same coach at Pompey when the brick came through the window, it was bloody freezing too...