I remember trying to pick up Charlton Live on 103.8FM (as it was back then) in Lee Green, I literally had to wrap the wire aerial around the curtain rail to pick up the signal.....crazy considering I could see the Shooters Hill Antenna from my mums front window!
It was all made worth it when I won a Charlton Live t-shirt haha!
Who are the Scarlets? Was Mark Mansfield Welsh then...?
Loved his commentaries, many memories from the promotion / early prem days. I have an old CD somewhere with the commentary from all the goals of the 99/00 season, some top class stuff in there.
Specifically remember the Derby away 2nil win in the prem relegation season. We were 1nil up clinging on only a couple of mins left. Pringle got the ball in behind on the break but only on about the touchline of the halfway line. Screams “PRINGLES IN ON GOAL!” suddenly calms himself “but he’s got a long way to go though” and then a seemingly endless pause before “AND HES SCOOOOREEED!!”
The last that I heard was after Clubcall, that Mark worked on a UK National Football League gridiron publication. But that was many years ago.
When Mark was doing radio commentary for Charlton, he was identified with Charlton. You knew you were listening to a Charlton broadcast, and that the broadcasters (Mark, often with Colin Powell) knew about the club inside and out. Now you get a hodge-podge of announcers from match-to-match of varying degrees of competence, who may or may not know much of anything about Charlton. It was a definite step in the wrong direction, as far as quality is concerned.
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It was all made worth it when I won a Charlton Live t-shirt haha!
Loved his commentaries, many memories from the promotion / early prem days. I have an old CD somewhere with the commentary from all the goals of the 99/00 season, some top class stuff in there.
Specifically remember the Derby away 2nil win in the prem relegation season. We were 1nil up clinging on only a couple of mins left. Pringle got the ball in behind on the break but only on about the touchline of the halfway line. Screams “PRINGLES IN ON GOAL!” suddenly calms himself “but he’s got a long way to go though” and then a seemingly endless pause before “AND HES SCOOOOREEED!!”
When Mark was doing radio commentary for Charlton, he was identified with Charlton. You knew you were listening to a Charlton broadcast, and that the broadcasters (Mark, often with Colin Powell) knew about the club inside and out.
Now you get a hodge-podge of announcers from match-to-match of varying degrees of competence, who may or may not know much of anything about Charlton.
It was a definite step in the wrong direction, as far as quality is concerned.