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Anyone got memories of previous Cup encounters with non-leaguers

March51March51
edited November 2009 in General Charlton
e.g Tonbridge, Harlow etc. One of mine is of a tiny little town pub in Chelmsford where they served up a wonderful, dark, local brew from a barrel behind the bar. It was a real effort to leave and watch the game. Expect it's been flattened for a shopping centre now! Anyway, besides pubs what other memories are there?
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  • Weegie AddickWeegie Addick
    Maidstone, of course - Hales and Flan sent off, could only get a draw at the Valley, then floodlights failing at their place when we were 2-1 up with minutes to go. We held on when the lights came back on.
  • ChizzChizz
    edited November 2009
    Maidstone United (were they non-league at the time?). Punch-up between Flanagan and Hales is the obvious memory of that game, but also the power cut during the replay and the stadium announcent saying "We're about to re-connect the electricity supply to the floodlights, so the game can re-start. This will mean sending 40,000 volts up the pylons, so the people who have climbed up to get a better view, might want to come down again now).

    Also remember the Harlow away game as the first time I had ever considered that some other clubs might see Charlton as a "big" team!
  • Friend Or DefoeFriend Or Defoe
    Dag & Red, 19k at the Valley, they were the better team and their fans were in fancy dress.
  • Airman BrownAirman Brown
    Chelmsford, November 1974. Coaches arrived absurdly early for the match (in good time for the drinking, but I was a bit young for that).

    I seem to recall people being chased round and round the terracing . . .
  • Chirpy RedChirpy Red
    Dag & Red at the Valley was my youngest son's 1st game. He went to the toilet at least half a dozen times, missed the goals and when the game started asked which one's Dagenham and whch one's Redbridge.......!
  • 101101
    [cite]Posted By: Chirpy Red[/cite]Dag & Red at the Valley was my youngest son's 1st game. He went to the toilet at least half a dozen times, missed the goals and when the game started asked which one's Dagenham and whch one's Redbridge.......!

    O yea Daggers were no league in that game. Was it 2000/2001.
  • Friend Or DefoeFriend Or Defoe
    [cite]Posted By: Ru1986[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: Chirpy Red[/cite]Dag & Red at the Valley was my youngest son's 1st game. He went to the toilet at least half a dozen times, missed the goals and when the game started asked which one's Dagenham and whch one's Redbridge.......!

    O yea Daggers were no league in that game. Was it 2000/2001.
    It was.

    It was also my youngest brothers first game, he would have been 5 and he hated it.
  • paulbaconsarniepaulbaconsarnie
    was it kettering that we made hard work of at selhurst?
  • MrOneLungMrOneLung
    [cite]Posted By: paulbaconsarnie[/cite]was it kettering that we made hard work of at selhurst?
    yep - beat them 2-1 at sellhuts in 89 i think.
  • Northwich TrickerNorthwich Tricker
    [cite]Posted By: Chizz[/cite]

    Also remember the Harlow away game as the first time I had ever considered that some other clubs might see Charlton as a "big" team!

    I remember going to Harlow back in 1981 when the Vics played them in the FA Trophy. Great day out only a year or two after that big FA Cup run they had. If I remember rightly, there was a huge grass bank along the side of the pitch opposite the main stand. Our fans spread out over that thinking it was the beach or something!
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  • Big WilliamBig William
    I went to the Harlow game in 1980, and stood/balanced on a muddy grassy bank behind the goal. There was a wooden picket fence dividing the fans (don't laugh, there was one at The Valley doing the same job when we played the likes of Chelsea) and a sort of sterile area, which was in reality another muddy grass bank with no people on it. This was at the time they first started talking about restricting The Valley to 13,000 on account of the state it was in. Hmmm...

    About half way through the second half, a couple of their fans got into the middle of the Charlton contingent with a view to getting "pwoper norwty" I presume, and this precipitated one of the funniest things I've ever seen at football, a huge playground type bundle with arms and legs sticking out everywhere, flailing away, gently sliding down the bank to the running track at the bottom. I suspect the people at the bottom are still there in the mud somewhere.
  • Steve DowmanSteve Dowman
    That Harlow game was one of my first away games. Just remember the mud on that bank and it going off with the locals, who seemed to be spurs or wet sham fans. Didn't killer score direct from a corner. That must of been a long time ago as we had a good cup run, seem to remember winning a couple of home games and beating Fulham away before losing to ipswich with a huge ànd very vocal away following.
  • mascot88mascot88
    yeah I was at kettering.....

    I was amazed when they scored.. the crowd went absolutely mental, more so that I had ever seen before, loved all the blow up hammers and bananas.... and robert lee did his usual, edge of the box turn and smash...
  • 101101
    [cite]Posted By: Friend Or Defoe[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: Ru1986[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: Chirpy Red[/cite]Dag & Red at the Valley was my youngest son's 1st game. He went to the toilet at least half a dozen times, missed the goals and when the game started asked which one's Dagenham and whch one's Redbridge.......!

    O yea Daggers were no league in that game. Was it 2000/2001.
    It was.

    It was also my youngest brothers first game, he would have been 5 and he hated it.

    Did it not go to replay at their place? Think we beat them there cant remember the score now though?
  • ScohamScoham
    [cite]Posted By: Ru1986[/cite]Did it not go to replay at their place? Think we beat them there cant remember the score now though?
    Yeah at home Salako equalised right at the end. Away it was either 1-0 or 2-1, maybe 2-0, something like that. Didn't go the away one but I think we struggled through it and just about did enough.
  • shirty5shirty5
    edited November 2009
    [cite]Posted By: Scoham[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: Ru1986[/cite]Did it not go to replay at their place? Think we beat them there cant remember the score now though?
    Yeah at home Salako equalised right at the end. Away it was either 1-0 or 2-1, maybe 2-0, something like that. Didn't go the away one but I think we struggled through it and just about did enough.

    Newton 1 0. First minute of extra time.
  • 101101
    [cite]Posted By: shirty5[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: Scoham[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: Ru1986[/cite]Did it not go to replay at their place? Think we beat them there cant remember the score now though?
    Yeah at home Salako equalised right at the end. Away it was either 1-0 or 2-1, maybe 2-0, something like that. Didn't go the away one but I think we struggled through it and just about did enough.

    Newton 1 0. First mniute of extra time.

    Thought so cool.
  • SimonsenSimonsen
    Driving to the Dagenham replay from Uxbridge only to find the match was off due to a frozen pitch. Meant they didn't get their SKY money either because it was meant to be on the box.

    Won the replay 1-0 when Shaun Newton squuezed one in at the start of extra time. Game was played on a Saturday afternoon....unusual for a replay.
  • No.1 in South LondonNo.1 in South London
    The aways at Chelmsford and Tonbridge and thinking how poxy small the grounds were having been so used to the vast empty spaces of The Valley :o)
  • 101101
    [cite]Posted By: No.1 in South London[/cite]The aways at Chelmsford and Tonbridge and thinking how poxy small the grounds were having been so used to the vast empty spaces of The Valley :o)

    Thought the same at Welling in preseason this year as it was my first trip there this season.
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  • Chaz HillChaz Hill
    Hard for anything to match the Killer/Flash bundle against Maidstone.

    Can't imagine anything like that happening at Northwich. Mind you there might be a few who wouldn't mind giving Izale a kick up the ar**!
  • BlackForestRedsBlackForestReds
    [cite]Posted By: Friend Or Defoe[/cite]Dag & Red, 19k at the Valley, they were the better team and their fans were in fancy dress.

    So were our players...

    I remember tuning in to the World Service who had the match on commentary and getting a really bad reception (thanks to living in a road with several high buildings and hills in and around it). With around five minutes to go when we were losing my reception descended into a lot of muffled and barely decipherable static. I eventually got the signal back several minutes after the final whistle and discovered that we'd scraped an equaliser.
  • TELTEL
    Tonbridge, Harlow, Chelmsford....all good old fashioned away days...the mudfight was hysterical
  • GoonerhaterGoonerhater
    was at all 3. Seem to remember a good few Welling Skins at Harlow.
  • alan dugdalealan dugdale
    Harlow 1980..Killer's 'Cross-shot' which of course was intentional !
  • pilchardpilchard
    Kettering Town 1989 at Parkhurst Sellout.
  • Lewis CoachesLewis Coaches
    Tonbridge had a lot of trouble with Chelsea fans that day in the ground.Also at Chelmsford can still see a guy by the name of Ian being carried out by the old bill after we scored.The 70s truly was a time for fighting.
  • March51March51
    Didn't Johnny Ostergaard make one of his rare appearances at Harlow, coming on as sub? And Killer's goal I'm sure came straight from the training ground! At Chelmsford, now I think anbout it , had all sorts of mayhem going on in the town before the game. Must have been why I sought refuge in the pub. After Tonbridge we got Walsall in the next round which was played on a Tuesday night. Got lost going up there, but arrived in time to see Paul Davies and King Arthur win it for us, Arthur's goal coming in the last minute of injury time.
  • Big WilliamBig William
    Weren't Exeter non-league when we beat them about five years ago?
  • stonemusestonemuse
    [cite]Posted By: Airman Brown[/cite]Chelmsford, November 1974. Coaches arrived absurdly early for the match (in good time for the drinking, but I was a bit young for that).

    I seem to recall people being chased round and round the terracing . . .
    Yes ... it got a bit 'hectic' that day at times ;-)
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