Very true Stone. My VG is being polished at this very moment in the hope that we beat Forest, and then draw a really teeny weeny club away with an allocation of about 400.
140 - You really believed that Andy Jones was going to be the "New Ian Rush" when we splashed out £350,000 for him to Port Vale.
141 - Staff at any local sports store laughing you out of the shop when you asked them if they had any replica Charlton shirts (during the Selhurst days). And then traipsing up to Soccer Scene in Carnaby St and getting laughed out of there as well.
142 - You've walked away from The Den (old or new) not wanting to believe that they've done us again.
143 - You watched Robert Lee miss three open goals at home to a piss poor Luton in April 1987 and saw Harford tap in a last minute winner for them and then have a ruck with one of your mates who say that "Lee will end up playing for England one day."
144 - You thought Bob Bolder really was the best keeper in the world and that Nicky Johns was a bit of a traitor for skulking off to QPR and celebrating their goals when they beat us 2-0 in 1988.
145 - Checking your watch at Wembley in the 1987 FMC Final vs Blackburn as it got close to 3pm and wondering when the other 40,000 fans were going to turn up.
145 - Checking your watch at Wembley in the 1987 FMC Final vs Blackburn as it got close to 3pm and wondering when the other 40,000 fans were going to turn up.
Tell me about it. What a wash out eh? I don't think anyone spoke in our group the whole way home that day. As I remember, two main groups of Charlton split by about five sections of NOTHING!
selling lottery tickets and bringing the money to the Valley club on a wednesday night having a beer with Killer My mate mark hulyer before he was chairman bringing a drunken Glikstein to a christmas party, got some great stories of him, but regrettably I was drunk too !
151.Travelled in mini buses all over the country and stop off in the midlands for a beer until late and watch the driver get the hump!mind you that was always me!
154. dug up piece of 1985 Valley turf and replanted it in your back garden. 155. seen Charlton 4-2 up away at Bristol Rovers with 20 minutes to go and still draw 5-5
156. went to man city and was glad to see us lose, the last game of the season 5-0, so they got promoted and you lived to tell the tale
157. went to birmingham city and was glad to see us lose 1-0, to a 5 yard offside goal, so they weren't relegated and you lived to tell the tale
158. Thought OH f%@~! when we got a last minute penalty at Boro after they had equalised a minute before. Must have been about 1990 and was sitting in the seats with a 3 foot barrier and no stewrads from the Boro fans, they were giving it the large after they equalised and were still doing so when we got the penalty. Seriously wasnt bothered if we scored, which we did!!
[cite]Posted By: oohaahmortimer[/cite]156. went to man city and was glad to see us lose, the last game of the season 5-0, so they got promoted and you lived to tell the tale
157. went to birmingham city and was glad to see us lose 1-0, to a 5 yard offside goal, so they weren't relegated and you lived to tell the tale
scrap that oooh aaah, i went brum when they had to win to get into play offs, it was the last game of the season, and we beat them 0-0, so they missed out on a play off place (and i think it also relegated mirwall for some reason too), walking out and the only thing between us and a steaming mob of brummies was one stoopid brummie old bill and a really skinny metal fence thing that they were pushing on, the copper told me 'wouldn't take much for that fence to come if they push hard enough!' i absolutly kacked myself! I lost the others i was with as they all scarpered back to the Motors as quick as poss, leaving me and a mate standing at the main gates surrounded by nutters all wanting a bit of me!
158.Birmingham is awful,not a nice walk back to the station you have to have your wits about you to get back to new street!had that pleasure a few times
remember going to maine road when we beat them up there 4-1 i think, and the weaver chants started around that time. i got a coach up with my brother it was a bank holiday weekend and we played arsenal on the monday at home. we had to have a police escort from the coach to the ground and back on it again after the game. i think man city got a pen in the last minute, and we cheered when they scored it as all their fans had left.
I met john robinson and graeme stuart in bromley on the sunday and my friend (an arsenal fan) asked them to say hello to me, and we talked about how they got home by plane by 9pm, and i didn't get back till 1am. nice blokes.
159. you're not a proper fan until charlton have gone the equivalent of a whole season without winning away from home AND you still expect them to win the next one...
[quote][cite]Posted By: 04 MCS[/cite scrap that oooh aaah, i went brum when they had to win to get into play offs, it was the last game of the season, and we beat them 0-0, so they missed out on a play off place (and i think it also relegated mirwall for some reason too), walking out and the only thing between us and a steaming mob of brummies was one stoopid brummie old bill and a really skinny metal fence thing that they were pushing on, the copper told me 'wouldn't take much for that fence to come if they push hard enough!' i absolutly kacked myself! I lost the others i was with as they all scarpered back to the Motors as quick as poss, leaving me and a mate standing at the main gates surrounded by nutters all wanting a bit of me!
Nice place that birmingham![/quote]
After that game we made it onto a bus, sat upstairs fully expecting the windows to come in, when a scuffle broke out at the top of the stairs. Some brummie scumbag hit some guy with an iron bar.
167. you have been presented an under 9's player of the year trophy by the legend that is carl leaburn!!!! 14 years ago i remember not being able to sleep the night before coz i knew i was going to meet a charlton player but to receive a trophy from 'LEEEEEAAAAABUUUUURN!' !!!!!!!happy times for me.
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141 - Staff at any local sports store laughing you out of the shop when you asked them if they had any replica Charlton shirts (during the Selhurst days). And then traipsing up to Soccer Scene in Carnaby St and getting laughed out of there as well.
142 - You've walked away from The Den (old or new) not wanting to believe that they've done us again.
143 - You watched Robert Lee miss three open goals at home to a piss poor Luton in April 1987 and saw Harford tap in a last minute winner for them and then have a ruck with one of your mates who say that "Lee will end up playing for England one day."
144 - You thought Bob Bolder really was the best keeper in the world and that Nicky Johns was a bit of a traitor for skulking off to QPR and celebrating their goals when they beat us 2-0 in 1988.
145 - Checking your watch at Wembley in the 1987 FMC Final vs Blackburn as it got close to 3pm and wondering when the other 40,000 fans were going to turn up.
Tell me about it. What a wash out eh? I don't think anyone spoke in our group the whole way home that day. As I remember, two main groups of Charlton split by about five sections of NOTHING!
That wouldn't take much.
having a beer with Killer
My mate mark hulyer before he was chairman bringing a drunken Glikstein to a christmas party, got some great stories of him, but regrettably I was drunk too !
But that happens every year...
Cracker Guiness !
How could i forget that.
Anyone else one of the thousand saddos that trooped over to some non-league ground to see Charlton win the Combination against Spurs ??
155. seen Charlton 4-2 up away at Bristol Rovers with 20 minutes to go and still draw 5-5
157. went to birmingham city and was glad to see us lose 1-0, to a 5 yard offside goal, so they weren't relegated and you lived to tell the tale
Must have been about 1990 and was sitting in the seats with a 3 foot barrier and no stewrads from the Boro fans, they were giving it the large after they equalised and were still doing so when we got the penalty.
Seriously wasnt bothered if we scored, which we did!!
scrap that oooh aaah, i went brum when they had to win to get into play offs, it was the last game of the season, and we beat them 0-0, so they missed out on a play off place (and i think it also relegated mirwall for some reason too), walking out and the only thing between us and a steaming mob of brummies was one stoopid brummie old bill and a really skinny metal fence thing that they were pushing on, the copper told me 'wouldn't take much for that fence to come if they push hard enough!' i absolutly kacked myself! I lost the others i was with as they all scarpered back to the Motors as quick as poss, leaving me and a mate standing at the main gates surrounded by nutters all wanting a bit of me!
Nice place that birmingham!
I met john robinson and graeme stuart in bromley on the sunday and my friend (an arsenal fan) asked them to say hello to me, and we talked about how they got home by plane by 9pm, and i didn't get back till 1am. nice blokes.
scrap that oooh aaah, i went brum when they had to win to get into play offs, it was the last game of the season, and we beat them 0-0, so they missed out on a play off place (and i think it also relegated mirwall for some reason too), walking out and the only thing between us and a steaming mob of brummies was one stoopid brummie old bill and a really skinny metal fence thing that they were pushing on, the copper told me 'wouldn't take much for that fence to come if they push hard enough!' i absolutly kacked myself! I lost the others i was with as they all scarpered back to the Motors as quick as poss, leaving me and a mate standing at the main gates surrounded by nutters all wanting a bit of me!
Nice place that birmingham![/quote]
After that game we made it onto a bus, sat upstairs fully expecting the windows to come in, when a scuffle broke out at the top of the stairs. Some brummie scumbag hit some guy with an iron bar.
Very nice place that Birmingham!
161 Saw us win on The Big Match.
Or laugh when Charlie Wright used to hang from the crossbar,top goalie.
You have seen Charlton play in another team's kit.
ie Palarse, Sheff Weds?/ Utd?
(all the other players must have been busy haha)
That was at St. Alban's and we lost (Last game that Scott McLeish played and we kepy Kin Grant!)